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  • URBACT: URBACT is an EU-funded program that aims “to foster sustainable integrated urban development in cities across Europe (...) its mission is to enable cities to work together and develop integrated solutions to common urban challenges, by networking, learning from one another’s experiences, drawing lessons and identifying good practices to improve urban policies”. URBACT organizes around different thematic networks.
  • JPI Urban Europe is a knowledge hub for urban transitions. The aim of JPI is to address the global urban challenges of today with the ambition to develop a European research and innovation hub on urban matters and create European solutions by means of coordinated research (...) Our task is to connect public authorities, civil society, scientists, innovators, business and industry to provide a new environment for research and innovation. We offer experimental zones and long-term research infrastructures in a broad sense. Our mission is to develop knowledge, tools and platforms for dialogue on urban transitions”. In their strategic agenda they identify four pathways: 1) digital transition, 2) urban robustness, 3) urban infrastructures, and 4)inclusive public spaces.
  • Transformative cities aims to connect and make visible transformative urban initiatives worldwide: “We believe that amplification of changes in different locations can help facilitate radical change on a global level; in other words, systemic transformation. Change in different forms is happening all over the world, and sometimes it is hard to know where to look. Transformative Cities can be seen as a telescope, to help navigate through the complex galaxy of struggles and radical change on a local level throughout the globe.”
  • Transition case study database of pathways project “There are many case studies on local and regional transitions. Until now, an overview of such case studies was missing. This database allows for sharing information of previously done European case studies in order to foster reuse of the knowledge gained in previous studies.”