Urban Learning Approach

The project aims to mainstream and institutionalise integrative urban energy planning within city administrations and is designed as a project from cities for cities. The focus is on the governance processes related to the (re-)development of urban sites.

As results the project aims to:

• involve key stakeholders for significantly increasing the dialogue and mutual understanding (city administration, utility, developers) on integrative urban energy planning in view of new societal, organisational and technological challenges;
• enhance the institutional capacity of administrations of leading European cities to plan urban (re-) development areas in an integrated manner – impacting directly on (re-) development areas for around about 3 million of inhabitants in the next 20 years;
• improved planning coordination between the city and infrastructure providers and energy suppliers;
• create lasting structures for necessary exchange between the key stakeholders in the participating cities;
• condense important best practices and insights from experiences in the participating cities;
• facilitate active learning by providing expertise to cities and transfer knowledge and models for replication elements.

The project consists of three main steps:

1. involvement of all needed stakeholders – different city departments, utilities, energy providers, planning companies, national institutions, government bodies;
2. analysis of current processes and selection of best practices – analysis was performed in three segments – governance processes, instruments and tools that are being used in the process of urban and energy planning, new and innovative technologies;
3. upgrade and dissemination – upgrade of current processes, dissemination of best cases and other project conclusions among a wider audience of cities.

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