Showcases

Utrecht University and the municipality of Eindhoven deploy apps to make people aware of the positive role public space plays for their health.

LANDac is an international platform led by Utrecht University that connects research, policy and practice on large-scale land governance.

Poor neighbourhoods often have a bad name. An international research group shows that its diversity has many positive effects.

Moving around can have an effect on mental health. Dr Marco Helbich investigates the influence of mobility on depression and suicide.

How does an abundant availability of food in our immediate environment have influence on our eating habits?

Utrecht University is developing a tool to inform homeowners about flood risks and to encourage them to use appropriate prevention measures. 

The DEPICT project aims to determine which features of urban environments, local communities, and the governance of physical infrastructures influence walking and cycling and how these can be optimised to achieve sustainable urban mobility for all.

EQUIMOB stands for Inclusive-Cities through Equitable access to Urban Mobility Infrastructures for India and Bangladesh. The project believes interdisciplinary collaborations and innovative approaches are necessary to reduce inequalities and make urban transport inclusive for the vulnerable population in India and Bangladesh.

POLISS is an Innovative Training Network funded by the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020-MSCA-ITN) bringing together 7 European Universities and 13 Partners with the aim of contributing to the improvement of the EU’s Smart Specialisation Policy.

This research project provides a critical assessment of collaborations on mixed migration flows between Europe and migrant sending countries.

The aim of the research project is to get a better understanding of how recently arrived Syrians spent and experience their days at work, school, and in their leisure time and how they combine and prioritise all these activities in the process of settling-in in the Netherlands.

The ClusDevMed Project – Clusters Development–aims to create the condition for the reinforcement of the existing clusters in the Mediterranean Area, with the support of other EU expertise and policies, and with the aim to bridge the distance among different stakeholders with the same objectives, and to find a way to create a common approach to solve the food-water-energy nexus.

In this project we aim to explore the issue of refugee youth, public space and integration in Europe. We will answer important questions about the role that arts and cultural initiatives play in the lives of refugee youth and their engagements with public space.

The research project Calibrating Inclusive Sporting Encounters investigates the crucial role that organisation networks and first-line professionals, such as community sports coaches and social workers, play in guiding people in vulnerable positions to sporting encounters and how to organise them.

The PAUL project investigates if there are nice and easy ways to motivate people to exercise more. To stimulate this, the PAUL-app was developed: a personal coach to help you exercise more.

How to contribute to the revitalisation of shrinking areas in the EU while also offering a welcoming space for non-EU migrants to pursue their life projects? These are the two policy and societal challenges which our H2020 programme WELCOMING SPACES aims to bridge.

PEN aims to evaluate policy measures to promote a healthy diet and physical activity of the population in terms of their content, implementation and effectiveness.

The aim of this project is to realize a seamless data driven spatial science using geographic information through question-based analysis, which is a novel way of interacting with geoanalytical resources via Question Answering (QA) technology.

The exposome concept is trying to capture everything to understand which, how, in what quantities, and in what circumstances environmental drivers have an effect on our health. 

With this ERC project, Lin will examine collaborative planning practices in China and identify the challenges to the assumptions of collaborative planning theory about institutions, power relations, and public spheres.

In this project, the team looks into the investment frontiers expanded from new extractive industries in Cabo Delgado Province of northern Mozambique.

The exponentially growing popularity of platforms such as Airbnb caused for the emerging of a new type of tourism. We teamed up with the municipality to deliver a 6-monthly monitor which keeps track of the development of Airbnb in the municipality of Utrecht, compares it to trends and reflects on its impact on the city.

TREND is a joint exchange programme and aims at strengthening the regional capabilities in triggering, implementing and managing Transition Management (TM) strategies towards driving “resilience-building” processes.