Citizen Engagement and Bottom Up Initiatives
UU's special interest group Citizen Engagement and Urban Sustainability (CITEUS) explores the relationship between citizen engagement and urban sustainability, particularly within urban greening and renewable energy. Anders Utrecht works towards building a connected community of local initiatives as a way to broaden our collective capacity and stimulate the co-production of knowledge about societal transitions. To better understand how small-scale, innovative projects can grow to a larger scale, Utrecht as a Living Lab aims to evaluate the transformative potential of experiments with healthy urban living innovations in the Utrecht region and support the actual scaling of these innovations using innovative action-oriented research