Is your city working on designing or implementing a Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) strategy? Are you looking for expert advice to tackle key challenges like multi-sectoral policies, multi-stakeholder governance, and community-led processes? EUI is launching a new Call for Peer Reviews at the end of March 2025.
Grab your opportunity to gain tailored insights from peers and EU experts to strengthen your SUD strategy.
Are you an urban practitioner eager to share your experience and exchange knowledge with other EU cities? Do you have expertise in implementing integrated and place-based urban strategies under cohesion policy? This call is also looking for individuals to join our Peer Reviewers pool.
What to expect?
A Peer Review is a capacity building activity to support European cities to improve the design and implementation of their Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) strategies, through a process of benchmarking and peer learning.
Each peer review involves one ‘city under review’, working with four to six cities acting as ‘peer reviewers’ to address concrete challenges in developing, implementing or monitoring an effective SUD strategy.
Participation in an EUI Peer Review is based on a formal selection process following an open call. Have a look at the previous call for Peer Reviews (autumn 2024).
Our Peer Reviews bring together people working for cities around EU. The exchanges between them are organised following a methodology based on the one developed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Each Peer Review lasts between 10 to 12 months, from the notification of approval to the end of the follow-up phase. The most important moment of a Peer Review is a 2-day event when we group together several cities under review and their peer reviewers.
Still not sure what a Peer Review actually is? Check our past Peer Reviews in Thessaloniki, Coimbra, Kalisz ,and Jiu Valley, Jesolo and San Donà di Piave and Torrelavega.
Need more information?
- Register for our online info session on 27 March (10.30-12.00 CET). For any questions, please reach out to your country's Urban Contact Point for more information.
- New guidance will be published at the end of March 2025. For information only, you may consult the old Guidance for Peer Reviews, the Courtesy Application Form and the Technical guidance to EEP (the application system) from the last call.
- Book a one-on-one consultation with an EUI Capacity Building Officer for tailored guidance
- Ensure your city qualifies as an Article 11 ERDF beneficiary. Check the FAQ for more information.
- Contact us at capacitybuilding@urban-initiative.eu for any question
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