Stine Madland Kaasa er rådgiver i Forskningsrådet. Her er hennes første presentasjon fra konferansen Grønn byvekst 6. juni 2013.

1. Workshop Agenda
• 2.00pm Greetings and Introduction of the Agenda - Stine Madland Kaasa &
Johannes Riegler
• 2.10pm Presentations
– JPI Urban Europe: Vision and Mission - Stine Madland Kaasa, Adviser, Norwegian
Research Council
– Challenges for European Urban Regions: Main Results of the JPI Urban Europe
Megatrend Study - Johannes Riegler MA, Scientist, AIT – Austrian Institute of
Technology
• 2.40pm Introduction to Workshop & Group Building – Moderation: Johannes
Riegler
– 2.50pm First Round of Group Work
– 3.10pm Coffee Break
– 3.20pm Second Round of Group Work
– 3.50pm Wrap Up: Short presentations on the outcomes of the group work.
• 3.55pm – 4.00pm Presentation: JPI Urban Europe Call #2 - Stine Madland
Kaasa

2. JPI Urban Europe – overview
Stine Madland Kaasa
Workshop: Urban Megatrends and Challenges
Oslo, 6th of June 2013

3. What is Joint Programming Initiative (JPI)?
• The concept introduced by the European Commission in July 2008 to
support implementation of the European Research Area (ERA).
• Focus on grand challenges which cannot be solved solely on the
national level (Alzheimers, food security, climate change, urbanisation)
• Countries are expected to pool research resources and develop
common research and innovation agendas – as basis for long-term
cooperation in which complementarities and synergies are exploited in
order to tackle grand societal challenges.
• Urban Europe accepted as one of ten JPIs. Aims to establish a large
scale, long-term, international research and development programme
dedicated to urban development

4. The world keeps urbanising
• The world is increasingly urban
• More than half of the world
population, and two thirds of the
Europeans, live in cities
• An even greater share of the
economic output come from
cities
• The city has become the de
facto standard organisation of
life and economies

5. Main challenges
• Urbanisation is tightly connected to many other societal
challenges
• Cities are in many cases simultaneously the cause of, the
first victim of, and the source of the solution to these
challenges

6. Cities are complex organisms
• A city cannot be understood by only looking at its buildings, or its
transportation system, or its energy distribution, or even its people.
• A city is made up of the intricate interactions and exchanges of all its
people, information, money, systems, and infrastructure.
• The high complexity of this interdependence is complemented by a slow pace
of change in demography and infrastructure, making it hard to discern causes
and effects.
• To understand how a city functions is therefore complex task. Learning how
its development can be influenced by policy, investment, or technology even
more so.

7. Crossing academic boundaries
• Necessary to cross academic boundaries
• But also stronger links between different sectors and thematic
areas
• And between researchers, policy makers, industry and different
stakeholders.

8. Crossing national borders
• European research on urban issues
is not only fragmented across disciplines,
but also between countries
• By integrating European urban research
– more financial resources is made available for large scale projects,
– projects can access a wider set of cities as research subjects,
– results are more likely to reach a wider audience,
– critical mass of top talent is assembled, and
– research can more easily address strategic questions at the
European level
• UE focus on research where the sometimes high cost of
international cooperation is likely to yield even larger benefits

9. Country Ministry / Authority / Administration Funding Agency / Council / Foundation
AT
Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology FFG
BE
SPW; Regional Ministry of Research and Economy;
Stedenbeleid
VITO; Innoviris
CY
Research Promotion Foundation
DE
Ministry of Education and Research - BMBF FONA-Office
DK
Council for Strategic Research
FI
Tekes, Rym Ltd; Academy of Finland
FR
AllEnvi; Ifsttar; French Institute of Science and Technology for
Transport, Development and Networks
ANR – the French National Research Agency
IE
Science Foundation Ireland
IT
MIUR - Ministry for Education, University and Research
MT
Integrated Transport Strategy Directorate
NL
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment Dinalog; NWO
NO
Ministry of the Environment The Research Council of Norway
SE
Vinnova; Formas
TK
TUBITAK

10. JPI UE Organisation - formally
Governing Board
One person from each member country
Management Board
Wim, Carl, & Margit
Scientific Advisory Board
11 distinguished professors
Urban Europe Forum
City reps and city assoc. reps

11. What we are doing right now
• Finalising a study of Urban Megatrends
• Establishing projects from our first Call for Proposals
(call closed September 2012)
• Preparing our second Call for proposals
• Establishing an Urban Europe Research Alliance
• Preparing a Scientific Research and Innovation Agenda
(SRIA)