Showcases

  • Mobile games for a healthy urban life

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

    Monique Simons
    Healthy Urban Living

  • LANDac, the Netherlands Land Academy

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

    Annelies Zoomers
    International Development Studies

  • It’s not all doom and gloom in poor neighbourhoods

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

    Anouk Tersteeg
    DIVERCITIES

  • Feeling dismal? Venture out!

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

    Marco Helbich
    Marco Helbich
    Healthy Urban Living

  • Unhealthy temptations at hand

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

    Maartje Poelman
    Healthy Urban Living

  • Energy label for flood risk

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

    Patrick Witte
    Spatial Planning

  • DePICT

    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.

    Dick Ettema
    Urban Geography

  • EQUIMOB

    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.

    Ajay Bailey
    International Development Studies

  • POLISS

    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.

    Andrea Morrison
    Economic Geography

  • Evidence-based assessment of migration deals: the case of Turkey

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

    Ilse van Liempt
    Urban Geography

  • Recently arrived Syrian’s daily life experiences and perspectives on participation in the Netherlands

    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.

    Ilse van Liempt
    Urban Geography

  • The ClusDevMed project

    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.

    Andrea Morrison
    Economic Geography

  • The everyday experiences of young refugees and asylum seekers in public spaces

    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.

    Ilse van Liempt
    Urban Geography

  • Calibrating Inclusive Sporting Encounters

    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.

    Dick Ettema
    Urban Geography

  • The Playful data-driven Active Urban Living (PAUL) project

    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.

    Dick Ettema
    Urban Geography

  • WELCOMING SPACES

    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.

    Annelies Zoomers
    Annelies Zoomers
    International Development Studies

  • PEN - Policy Evaluation Network

    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.

    Frank van Lenthe
    Urban Geography

  • Question-based analysis of Geographic Information with Semantic Queries (QuAnGIS)

    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.

    Simon Scheider
    Simon Scheider
    Urban Geography

  • Exposome

    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. 

    Mei-Po Kwan
    Urban geography

  • Collaborative Planning in China: Authoritarian Institutions, New Media, Power Relations, and Public Spheres

    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.

    Yanliu Lin
    Spatial Planning

  • InFront - Inside Investment Frontiers

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

    Kei Otsuki
    International Development Studies

  • Airbnb monitor Utrecht

    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.

    Egbert van der Zee
    Urban Geography

  • H2020 MSCA RISE - TREND

    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.

    Pierre-Alexandre Balland
    Economic Geography