SynVer*Z supports the Sustainable Transformation of Urban Areas funding programme and the City of the Future flagship initiative launched by Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to address key issues of sustainable urban development.
The Sustainable Transformation of Urban Areas programme was one of the first initiatives to come out of Germany’s Science Year 2015 – City of the Future, and is part of the social-ecological research funding priority of Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research. Twenty-three collaborative projects, which started between June 2016 and February 2017, are being supported. They ask key questions about urban development in the future. How can cities encourage the shift towards sustainable economic structures? What potential is there in linking infrastructures? How can social integration and ecological sustainability be effectively combined?
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With its City of the Future flagship initiative, Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research is addressing the central challenges of sustainable urban development by adopting a cross-thematic and integrated approach. The focus is on dealing constructively with climate change, sustainable and innovative mobility offers, and quality of life and of the environment for all citizens. At present, 23 joint projects have been selected that started between mid-2017 and late 2018.
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One of SynVer*Z’s cooperation partners is the office of the City of the Future Innovation Platform (IPZ). IPZ is part of an inter-ministry working party on sustainable urban development (IMA Stadt). The office supports the complete process at IPZ, acting as a driving force, a service facility and a point of contact.