Nordic cities have qualities to draw on when it comes to greenspace, social inclusion and public health. But they are also segregated, characterised by health-related divides and by differences in accessibility to urban amenities. Without careful consideration the health and well-being of city-dwellers can be negatively influenced in overly densified and congested cities, despite sustainability ambitions.
NordicPATH’s overall objective is to establish a new model for citizens’ participation and collaborative planning in Nordic countries to create healthy and people-centred cities. The project is tackling complex environmental impacts such as air quality and climate change and is developing a method specifically targeted for the governance and the conditions of the Nordic countries with potential replicability and scalability to other countries.
The development of smart cities of the future calls for innovative usage of emerging technologies, as well as for novel and effective forms of collaboration across a large number of heterogeneous stakeholders, such as municipal decision-makers, entrepreneurs, and citizens.
The SMARTer Greener Cities project aims to develop and test novel tools and processes for explicitly converging social, ecological, and technological systems (SETS) approaches for improving life in cities. The convergence of these approaches will promote resilient and equitable urban futures in Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and generate new opportunities for transformative change and increasing resilience to extreme events in other Nordic cities.
Målet för det tvärvetenskapliga och tvärsektoriella forskningsprogrammet är att främja samarbete mellan olika kunskapssamhällen i de nordiska länderna och ta itu med utmaningar inom hållbar stadsutveckling och smarta städer.
Verdens helseorganisasjon kaller luftforurensning den største miljømessige helsetrusselen i verden. Hvert år dør rundt 10 000 mennesker i Norden for tidlig på grunn av forurenset luft, men likevel er det stor usikkerhet rundt hvilke forurensende stoffer som er mest helseskadelige. Det skal professor Jørgen Brandt og NordForsk-prosjektet NordicWelfAir finne ut av.
NordForsk öppnar en utlysning för det nordiska forskningsprogrammet Hållbar stadsutveckling och smarta städer. Forskningsprogrammet är ett samarbete med Finlands Akademi, Formas, Forte, Energimyndigheten i Sverige och Norges Forskningsråd. Utlysningen har en budget på 50 miljoner norska kronor och tidsfristen för inlämning av ansökningar är 4 juni, 2019.
