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Important Announcement
**Final hearing phase for the URBAN-NET 'Strategic
Research Framework'**
The URBAN-NET Thematic Framework for future research
on sustainable urban development is now in its final consultation phase.
Stakeholders, researchers, programme managers and other interested parties are
invited to respond to the content of the framework. You can download a pdf
version of the document
here.
Please send any feedback, comments or suggestions, by
27 February 2009, to Thilo Petri, TUV Rheinland, at
thilo.petri.de.tuv.com.
Your input to the framework would be much
appreciated
Results of the meeting of the ministers for urban
development
On 25 November, the European urban development ministers met for the whole
day to discuss the "sustainable and inclusive city". The discussions were
presided over by Christine Boutin, the French Minister for Housing and Urban
Affairs, Hubert Falco, the French Minister of State for Town and Country
Planning and Fadela Amara, the French Minister of State for Urban Affairs. The
results of the meeting have been published
here.
Sustainable Development: A Challenge for European Research
In early 2009 the Commission will launch a monitoring system that will link
all currently funded FP7 projects to the priorities of the EU Sustainable
Development Strategy. Background information and tender are available
here.
There will also be a Commission conference "Sustainable Development: A Challenge
for European Research" on 26-28 May 2009, in Brussels. A
call for papers
is open until January 2009.
A
glossary
of research programme management terminology, with some terms specific
to URBAN-NET, is now available. If you would like to suggest more entries,
please contact
info@urban-net.org
.
The recent URBAN-NET Stakeholder Workshop, "Future research areas
on Urban Sustainability in Europe", held in Berlin, was a great success.
You will find more information about the workshop
here.
Sustainable Cities - European Commission Policy Summaries;
"The climate change imperative has put the spotlight on Europe's
cities, which are home to 80% of Europeans and consume a disproportionate share
of natural resources relative to their surface area". Read more
here.
UN-HABITAT have launched a new website for their Global Report on
Human Settlements (GRHS) series. The
website
contains downloadable copies of all issues of the GRHS since 1986, most of
which are also searchable.
Scotland
influences European urban research priorities. This article about
URBAN-NET appeared in the Summer issue of the Scottish Urban
Regeneration Forum newsletter.
In December 2007, Research*eu, the magazine of the European Research
Area featured a special report on Urban Research. You can read
the report
here.
PUCA
(France) Call for Research Proposals ,
L'intercommunalite a l'epreuve des faits. Please note that this
document is in French and all proposals must be made in French.
5th Urban Research Symposium, Cities and Climate Change; Responding
to an Urgent Agenda, Marseilles, France 28-30 June 2009. Please see
the Call for Papers
here.
Nordic Urban and Housing Research Seminar (NSBB) - Towards
sustainability in urban transformation, governance cultures and housing
policies, 21-23 September 2008, Finland - DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 20 May
2008. For more information visist the seminar website
here.
Call
for Papers - EURA 2008 Conference in Milan (October 9-11, 2008).
Interested parties are invited to submit an abstract via the website at
http://eura2008.polimi.it/. For
further information please email
euraconference2008.polimi.it.
Visit the
Biofuel
Cities online events centre to keep up to date with the many conferences,
workshops and seminars on Biofuels taking place across Europe.
The BiodivERsA "Pan-European call for international research
projects on biodiversity: linking scientific advancement to policy and practice
" has been published on the project website. For more information, visit the
BiodivERsA website
at http://www.eurobiodiversa.org
Publications
The discussion document, Future Reasearch Areas in the field of Urban
Sustainability, that underpins the National urban research stakeholder
consultation is availble to download
here.
The associated PowerPoint presentation is also available
here.
The recently published 'State of European Cities
Report' can now be downloaded from the
Europa
website.
The Academy for Sustainable Communities has recently
published
Mind
the Skills Gap, a report which assesses the gaps in the skills required to
deliver the UK Sustainable Communities Programme.
'Europe's
environment - The fourth assessment' is the latest in a series of
reports published over the last 15 years by the European Environment Agency.
'Towards
a new culture for urban mobility' is the European Commission's new Green
Paper on urban transport which was adopted on 25 September 2007. Citizens and
stakeholders are invited to share their views on the Green Paper with the
Commission until 15 March 2008.
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