UIA has funded 86 urban innovation projects in this programming period. These have been spread across the 14 identified call topics, closely aligned with the priorities of the Urban Agenda for the EU.
Just Transitions was not one of the UIA’s call themes. Consequently, this has not been the focus on the ten case studies presented here. Rather, they have utilised their resources under the banner of Energy Transitions, Climate Change Adaptation, Circular Economy or other topics.
Appendix 1: Case Studies
UIA has funded 86 urban innovation projects in this programming period. These have been spread across the 14 identified call topics (link), closely aligned with the priorities of the Urban Agenda for the EU.
Just Transitions was not one of the UIA’s call themes. Consequently, this has not been the focus on the ten case studies presented here. Rather, they have utilised their resources under the banner of Energy Transitions, Climate Change Adaptation, Circular Economy or other topics.
However, their selection reflects the fact that their activities and results can contribute to the Just Transitions process, ensuring that we achieve climate neutrality without leaving any person or place behind. Each of them contributes to at least one, and in most cases several, of our three sub themes:
• Future skills forecasting
• Supporting emerging green sectors
• Skilling and Reskilling
These ten city cases have emerged from a filtering process that has included a scan of all UIA funded projects, a survey of 25 cities that are actively involved in some dimension of the green skills agenda, and city hearings with 10 UIA cities The final selection reflects a mix in terms of city size and location and other criteria have included:
• Fit with wider territorial and EU strategies
• The scale of innovation
• The mix of interventions
• Results
• The potential for transfer and scaling
Appendix 2: UIA cities participating in our process
Albertslund - LINC
Amsterdam – RESILIO
Aveiro – STEAM City
Barcelona – GBG-A2CC
Brussels - CAIRGO
Cluj-Napoca – Future of Work
Cuenca – UFIL
Eindhoven – Passport 4 Work
Fuenlabrada - MILMA
Gothenburg – FED
Helsinki - HERO
Lappeenranta – Urban Infra Revolution
Ljubljana - APPLAUSE
Manchester – IGNITION
Milan – OPEN AGRI
Ostrava – CLAIRO
Paris – OASIS
Pozzuoli - MAC
Rotterdam – BRIDGE
Seville – CartujaQanat
Sofia – Innoair
Vaanta – Urban Growth GSIP
Växjö - DIACCESS
Viladecans - Vilawatt
Appendix 3: Key Witnesses
Matthew Bach – ICLEI
Anna Rubin, Kristine Langenbucher and Lukas Kleine - Rueschkamp – OECD
Stellina Chatzichristou – CEDEFOP
Dana Eleftheriadou - DG GROW
Gerry Muscat and Hubert Strauss - European Investment Bank
Appendix 4: Sounding Board Members
Nuala Morgan – URBACT
Pia Laurilla – European Commission, DG REGIO
Nathalie Guri – Eurocities
Carlotta Fioretti – European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Ophelie Tainguy – UIA Permanent Secretariat
Amelie Cousin – UIA Permanent Secretariat
Tommaso Galli – UIA Permanent Secretariat
Roberta Lixia – UIA Permanent Secretariat
About this resource
The Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) is a European Union initiative that provided funding to urban areas across Europe to test new and unproven solutions to urban challenges. The initiative had a total ERDF budget of €372 million for 2014-2020.
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