BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:UERA Event 2024: Building Urban Transformative Capacity: Empowerin g cities/Urban actors by experimentation\, cooperation and learning DTSTART:20240222T080000Z DTEND:20240222T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260420T033900Z UID:indico-event-3938@indico.kit.edu CONTACT:pia.laborgne@kit.edu DESCRIPTION:UERA Seminar and General Assembly (February 20 - 23\, 2024 in- person in Karlsruhe/Germany)\, including an ACUTE TWG3 – 15mC / Urban Ac cessibility and Connectivity Workshop  (with separate cfp) and a Driving Urban Transitions Consultation Workshop (for UERA members and DUT project PIs).\n\nFor more information on the DUT consultation workshop see: https: //dutpartnership.eu/dut-events/dut-scientific-consultation-workshop-call-2 024/\n\nThe DUT Scientific Consultation Workshop is full\, unfortunately w e cannot accept more registrations for this.\n\nOrganised by: Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA)\, Karlsruhe Transformation Centre for Sustainabi lity and Cultural Change/KIT-ITAS (KAT)\, Karlsruhe Real World Lab for Sus tainable Climate Protection (KARLA)\n\nVenue: Karlsruhe Institute of Techn ology (KIT) (for more info see below)\n\nFor accomodation options please s ee: https://www.karlsruhe-erleben.de/en/stay-overnight\n\n Practical Info on Venue and Accomodation options: https://indico.kit.edu/event/3938/atta chments/7158/11482/Practical_Information_UERA_conference_2024.pdf\n\n \n\ nProgramme:\n\n\n Download Program for 22nd February 2024\n Download Progr am for the General Assembly (23rd of February)\n ACUTE: https://acute-uera -karlsruhe.sciencesconf.org/program\n Book of abstracts\n\n\n \n\nInforma tion on Venues:\n\nUERA seminar (22.2.) and DUT Consultation Workshop as w ell as ACUTE Workshop Day 2: Triangel Space\, Kaiserstraße 93\, 76133 Kar lsruhe\n\nACUTE Seminar Day one (20.2.) and UERA General Assembly: KIT-ITA S\, Karlstr. 11\, 76133 Karlsruhe\n\nHow to get there:\n\nITAS:\n\nFrom th e central train station\, it takes about 15 minutes to come to the ITAS si te in the center of the city. Several tram and city train lines bring you to the stop “Europaplatz” (see https://www.kvv.de/en/ ). If you leave the train station to direction City you will find four tracks on the “Ba hnhofsplatz”. Best choose city train S1 or S11 departing from the first track going rightward (direction to Neureut\, Leopoldshafen or Hochstetten ) and get out at the stop “Europaplatz”. From here it is just a short walk to ITAS.\n\n \n\nTRIANGEL:\n\nFrom the central train station\, it ta kes about 15 minutes to get to Triangel Space in the center of the city. S everal tram and city train lines bring you to the stop “Kronenplatz” ( see https://www.kvv.de/en/ ). If you leave the train station to direction City you will find four tracks on the “Bahnhofsplatz”. Best choose cit y train 2 or S4 departing from the first and second track going rightward. \n\n \n\nCall for Papers for the UERA Seminar on 22nd of February 2024\n\ n \n\nTopic of the International Seminar\n\nThe Urban Europe Research All iance (UERA) conference 2024 focuses on urban sustainability transformatio ns\, aiming at building ecosystem learnings\, through multiple experimenta tion\,  collaboration and social learning.\n\nUrban sustainability transf ormations require cultural change and learning on all levels of governance and society. Responding to this need\, an experimental turn has occurred since the 2000s in sustainability sciences (Parodi et al. 2023[1])\, bring ing into life different forms of Urban Living Labs (ULLs)/real-world labs and real-world experimentation.\n\nReal-world experimentation is crucial i n shaping knowledge to action for future sustainable and resilient cities. Especially in urban contexts\, this practice enables urban actors to beco me more responsive to the evolving needs of citizens and framing condition s such as climate change and multiple crises. Achieving transformative cap acity (Wolfram et al. 2019[2]) is essential for creating more livable and thriving cities. It is essential to create ecosystems that promote researc h\, policy\, and planning interaction\, learning\, and consideration of so cio-economic outcomes. These ecosystems should also address governance and institutional frameworks that enable citizens to take action and become e mpowered. This capacity mainly involves enhancing urban agency\, integrati ng learnings and experimentations into urban planning practice\, and foste ring a broader culture of sustainability in urban societies.\n\nThere are some key questions that need to be addressed in order to learn through exp eriments and effectively transfer those learnings into the realm of urban planning and social practices. For instance\, what kind of capacities are required for ecosystem learning and how can researchers contribute to thei r development? Additionally\, how can research and urban societies engage in long-term hybrid research and learning environments\, despite facing th e challenges of 'projectification'? Lastly\, how can we ensure that the le arnings are efficiently and sustainably transferred?\n\n \n\nThe purpose of the UERA seminar is to facilitate capacity building and transdisciplina ry collaboration\, experimentation\, and learning at both urban and local scales. This is aimed at promoting sustainable transformations across vari ous fields\, such as sustainability and resilience\, accessibility and con nectivity\, urban governance\, participation and equity\, circular urban r egenerative economies\, energy transition\, and human-centered smart citie s.\n\nAbstracts and forms of contribution:\n\nContributions may consider r esearch and practice of urban governance\, diversity\, inclusiveness\, jus tice\, transformative knowledge\, co-creation\, learning\, innovation\, ur ban collaboration\, cooperation\, and institutionalization of coalitions o f urban actors.\n\nWe welcome abstracts (300 words) contributing to urban sustainability research and practice and the development of new skills and competencies enhancing transformative capacity. The seminar aims to contr ibute to the European transfer of knowledge and experience and to identify and discuss the need for capacity building in research and practice. \n\n Besides presentations\, we welcome posters that will be shown during the w hole event and highlighted in a specific poster session. \n\nDeadline for abstracts (both for presentations and posters): 12th of January 2024 (fina l deadline!)\n\nThe UERA seminar is considered an open platform for resear chers to connect on the topic of sustainable urban transition in broad ter ms. It welcomes researchers to share and disseminate their results dealing with questions of sustainable urban transitions\, energy transitions\, mo bility transitions - 15-minute city\, accessibility\, and connectivity - a nd regenerative circular urban economies and processes. \n\nFinal papers c an be published after the conference in the Special Issue of the Journal U rban Transformations  ‘On the Other Side of the Green City: Critical Ex perimentations and Learnings’ (submission will be opened after the confe rence)\n\nResearch findings and the collection of the papers will contribu te to exchange\, sharing and expanding knowledge and practical examples fo r creating a positive planetary sustainable urban development in the EU co untries and beyond.\n\n \n\n\n[1] Parodi\, Oliver\; Steglich\, Anja\; Byl und\, Jonas (2023). Real-World Lab. In: Thorsten Philipp/Tobias Schmohl\, Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning (287-296). Bielefeld: transcript Verla g. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839463475-030\n\n \n\n[2] Wolfram\, M.\, Borgström\, S. & Farrelly\, M. Urban transformative capacity: From concep t to practice. Ambio 48\, 437–448 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280 -019-01169-y\n\nhttps://indico.kit.edu/event/3938/ IMAGE;VALUE=URI:https://indico.kit.edu/event/3938/logo-1226490527.png URL:https://indico.kit.edu/event/3938/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR