Working group
14/11/2025
EURA launches a new Working Group, “Flexible, Healthy and Liveable Public Spaces,” focused on how public-space design can support health, inclusiveness and adaptability. The WG will map international best practices (e.g., healthy streets, proximity spaces, campuses, waterfronts) and develop transferable guidance for planning. Interested in contributing case studies or joining activities? Please contact the coordinator, Prof. Marichela Sepe (Sapienza University of Rome).
29/10/2025
Have you ever found yourself wondering which “co-” concept fits best with your research or project – co-production, co-creation, co-design? And if you have chosen one over another, what guided that decision? Are you confident you understand the differences – not just between the various “co-” concepts, but also across the many other forms of collaboration that exist in research and practice? More importantly, do those differences really matter – and should we even try to define them? If so, then how?
22/10/2025
On 17 November, 15:30 (CET) the eight online meeting of "Regeneration Talks". This session of the EURA activity launched in the context of the Working Group on Urban Regeneration will focus on "The socioeconomic impacts of brownfield redevelopment to housing in England". Speakers: Danielle Sinnett, Reinhard Weisser, Owen Cranshaw.
29/09/2025
Resilience is widely used across disciplines thanks to its compatibility with complexity theories, ranging from economics and ecology to political science, cognitive science, technology, and spatial planning. Zolli and Healey’s (2021) definition of resilience as “the ability of a system, company or person to maintain its fundamental purpose and integrity in the face of radically changed circumstances” bridges ecological and sociological perspectives.
15/07/2025
The EURA Working Group on Municipal Councillors in Europe is advancing its collaboration through joint research and teaching. A new survey of mayors is in preparation, alongside a first Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) held in June 2025 in Darmstadt with partners from five countries.
23/06/2025
On July 1, 15:00 the seventh online meeting of "Regeneration Talks". This is the seventh event of the EURA activity that is launched in the context of the Working Group on Urban Regeneration. Sixth appointment will focus on the Danish case and focus on the urban development planning in Denmark – the 'explosion' of informal and non-mandatory plans [...]
20/01/2025
On February 6, 15:00 the sixth online meeting of "Regeneration Talks". This is the sixth event of the EURA activity that is launched in the context of the Working Group on Urban Regeneration. Sixth appointment will focus on the French case and focus on the shift from "banlieues" to small and medium sized towns [...]
08/12/2024
The working group met in Olomouc in the Czechia on November 22 and 23 2024 for a workshop which took place at the Palacký University. During the event it was possible to clarify final questions regarding the generation of the common data set resulting from the survey of municipal councillors and to discuss contributions to the two-volume joint-publication to be published by Palgrave Macmillan [...]
29/10/2024
On November 19, 15:00 the fifth online meeting of "Regeneration Talks". This is the fifth event of the EURA activity that is launched in the context of the Working Group on Urban Regeneration. Fifth appointment will focus on the Polish case [...]
29/10/2024
Duisburg Urban Zero is the title of an urban regeneration project currently implemented in the neighbourhood of Duisburg-Ruhrort. The goal of this initiative is to create a pollution free neighbourhood by 2029. This includes the installation of renewable energy facilities, implementing the circular economy of land and green infrastructure and happens in the context of a post-industrial city being the biggest inner harbour in Europe ...
11/06/2024
The EURA working group on “Municipal Councillors in Europe” has finished the survey on municipal councillors in Europe by the end of May 2024. The survey covered councillors from 29 European countries. [...]
03/06/2024
Latest news from the EURA Working Group on “Recentralisation in countries experiencing an ‘illiberal turn’”. The working group had a first workshop at the Central European University in Budapest on 18 and 19 April. [...]
30/05/2024
On June 6, 16:00 the fourth online meeting of "Regeneration Talks". This is the third event of the EURA activity that is launched in the context of the Working Group on Urban Regeneration. Fourth appointment focuses on the Italian case and will have the participation of Ignazio Vinci, Carla Tedesco, Stefania Marini, Francesca Bragaglia and Cristiana Rossignolo [...]
28/03/2024
On April 3, 16:00 the second online meeting of "Regeneration Talks". This is the third event of the EURA activity that is launched in the context of the Working Group on Urban Regeneration. Third appointment will focus on the Irish case [...]
29/01/2024
New EURA Working Group on “Recentralisation in countries experiencing an ‘illiberal turn’” is looking for members! The proposed EURA working group should focused on recentralization in these countries experiencing an ‘illiberal turn’. We see recentralization in these countries as an element in a struggle over power, and examine conflictual situations – those that challenge the core of democratic systems. Please sent an expression of interest to Hubert Heinelt by the 31st of March 2024. [...]
19/01/2024
New date for the second online meeting of "Regeneration Talks": 8th February 2024 (16:00 CET). This is the second event of the EURA activity that is launched in the context of the Working Group on Urban Regeneration. Second appointment will focus on the Spanish case [...]
28/11/2023
On December 14, 16:00 the second online meeting of "Regeneration Talks". This is the second event of the EURA activity that is launched in the context of the Working Group on Urban Regeneration. Second appointment will focus on the Spanish case [...]
02/10/2023
