News - DUT Partnership

Art and Human-Centred Approaches for Inclusive Urban Transformations

April 22 2024

Three projects funded by the JPI Urban Europe programme shared and discussed the role of arts and human-cantered approaches to engage stakeholders at the DUT Conference. New DUT projects and cooperation partners can take forward some of the lessons learned...

DUT Conference 2024: Key Players to Achieve the Cities Mission 2030 Goals

April 17 2024

The European Partnership Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) held its second conference last week, sparking a high interest among academics, business leaders and representatives from funding agencies. With over 300 in-person participants in Brussels and more than 200 viewers online, the...

Navigating the 15-minute City: First Learnings and Discussions from the Driving Urban Transitions Partnership

April 16 2024

The position paper provides an overview of DUT's work in the 15-minute City Transition Pathway so far, draws a conclusion and learnings from the first two years of activities, and gives an outlook of what can be expected to come....

Towards Regenerative Neighbourhoods: European Cases, Insights, and Initiatives

April 11 2024

The postion paper presents a compilation of short, to the point, papers and case studies. The authors of this publication provide insightful learnings of what regenerative urbanism implies at the neighbourhood scale of urban communities. All papers provide a good...

DUT Projects On the Spotlight: Projects Catalogue

April 8 2024

An outstanding collaboration effort led to the start of 48 research and innovation projects this year. Delve into key figures, project goals and expected results in DUT's newly published Project Catalogue. Highlights The first DUT Project Catalogue presents an overview...

Reflections from Urban Living Labs: What Is at Stake?

March 18 2024

The Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) Conference 2024 brought together researchers, experts and city planners last month to share project results on urban mobility in Karlsruhe, Germany. Explore comments and insights from the seminars. » Access presentations Urban sustainability...

Invitation: Stakeholder Consultation on PEDs

March 15 2024

Positive Energy Districts play a crucial role in the transformation of cities towards a carbon-neutral future and the urban energy transition. However, the role of PEDs in the climate-neutral city has not been clearly defined yet and there is still...

How Partnerships Like DUT Can Support the EU Missions?

February 14 2024

DUT was highlighted as a partnership with synergies to the EU Cities Mission at a mutual learning event organised by The TRAnsnational cooperation on the MIssions approach (TRAMI). As a next step, TRAMI will showcase the latest results on EU...

Shaping Our Cities: Key Takeaways from the Latest AGORA Dialogue

February 6 2024

The DUT partnership organises regular AGORA dialogues, a forum that brings together experts to discuss emerging issues, trends and innovations in urban planning. Explore takeaways from our latest AGORA Dialogue, held on the 30th of January 2023. Participants' contributions may...

Invitation: Scoping for DUT Call 2024

December 14 2023

Open stakeholder consultation on Transition Pathway Priorities Click here to access the survey. The survey is open from 14 December 2023 until 19 January 2024. The Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership is a European long-term research and innovation...

Accelerate Europe’s Urban Transition. Share your Best Example of a Circular Urban Economy Case

December 14 2023

Do you know of an example that showcases circular urban economy in Europe? Your expertise is needed. With the support of Sweco, the DUT Partnership is seeking the top 100 circular urban economy cases across European cities and towns. The...

Quo Vadis, PED? – a PED AGORA on Reflecting the PED Narrative

December 3 2023

Feedback from cities and other stakeholders tells us that there is a need for updating the Positive Energy Districts (PED) narrative. In October, we invited the PED community to an AGORA Thematic Dialogue to reflect on building blocks for a...

Welcome to DUT – Urban Doers 2023!

November 15 2023

We are pleased to update you on the recent developments within the Urban Doers Community, our newest initiative to include this very important group of hands-on working people into the DUT Partnership. The objective is to support urban initiatives by...

Open Tender: Thematic and Coordination Support for DUT

September 28 2023

Discover an exciting opportunity to be part of DUT Partnership's journey towards sustainable urban transitions! We are looking for experts in a recently launched tender to provide essential thematic and coordination support to our three Transition Pathways (TP): Positive Energy...

First Insights from DUT Call 2022

September 28 2023

The first call of the Driving Urban Transitions Partnership was launched in 2022 in collaboration with 27 European countries and the European Commission. The purpose of the call is to support transnational research and/or innovation projects addressing urban challenges to...

Call for Contributions: Regenerative Neighbourhoods Position Paper

September 27 2023

The Circular Urban Economies Transition Pathway has been actively exploring the regenerative neighbourhoods concept through various events, culminating in a comprehensive position paper due in June 2024. We are now inviting contributions from experts and practitioners who have engaged in...

20 Initiatives Selected in First Edition of Urban Doers Community

September 21 2023

The first 20 innovative initiatives for the Urban Doers Community pilot 2023 have been selected by our jury of experts and partners of the DUT partnership. The call for EoI generated a strong interest from all over Europe, with 190...

DUT Call 2022: 48 Projects Suggested for Funding

July 21 2023

The 42 funding agencies, from 27 countries, have agreed upon a list of 48 projects suggested for funding. These transnational innovation and research projects gather researchers, cities and municipalities, businesses, civil society as well as other stakeholders and are to...

Summer Editorial

July 7 2023

The Driving Urban Transitions Partnership has published the draft call text for DUT Call 2023. DUT’s extensive stakeholder engagement activities embed the call priorities in the wider context of European policies. DUT is not only closely cooperating with European initiatives,...

CapaCITIES Offered in June a Full Capacity-Building Package with Workshops and Webinars

July 4 2023

Three online capacity-building events have been organised in June 2023 by the CapaCITIES project, addressing city authorities and urban actors, policymakers on a national level, research and funding organisations from all over Europe. On 1 June 2023 an online workshop...

Learnings from the SRI Conference 2023

July 4 2023

This year, SRI2023 (Sustainable Research and Innovation Conference) took place in Panama City and online. Of course, we could not miss it and organized two sessions: one on "Creating Urban Innovation Ecosystems" and a training session on how to plan...

DUT at the Creating Green Cities Conference in Malmö

July 3 2023

How can Driving Urban Transitions as a funding mechanism contribute to the development and implementation of the Urban Agenda of the EU? And what aspects of frameworks such as Leipzig Charter, New European Bauhaus and Driving Urban Transitions can contribute...

Mapping of Practice in 15-minute City and Circular Urban Economies

July 3 2023

DUT’s aim is to develop skills and tools for central urban challenges that can be used and shared with urban stakeholders for application. Therefore, it is a key activity from the beginning of the partnership, to develop a sound, yet...

October is Now the Official Thematic AGORA Dialogues Month

July 3 2023

During October, all three Transition Pathways will arrange AGORA Dialogues to continue discussing and co-creating central thematic activities with our stakeholders. More info will follow shortly. The 15-minute City TP is first and will centre the AGORA on the upcoming...

DUT Call 2023 Opens on 1 September 2023

June 19 2023

The second edition of the DUT Call opens on 1 September 2023 and will focus on people-centred urban transformation and will provide relevant research topics in the three transition pathways 15-minute City, Positive Energy Districts and Circular Urban Economies. Detailled...

The First Edition of the Urban Doers Community is Closed

June 19 2023

We are thrilled to announce that the application period for the Urban Doers Community has officially come to an end. Thank you to all the incredible applicants who shared their innovative projects with us! We received an overwhelming response with...

DUT City Panel in Vienna

June 19 2023

Fruitful first gathering of city representatives in Vienna - From 1 to 2 June 2023 the DUT City Panel and the DUT Public officers and Practitioners Community (PoP-C) met for the first time in person in Vienna. 21 city representatives...