Last year a team of innovators from Ukraine UNDP Accelerator Lab – decided to explore nature-base solutions possibilities in Ukraine. This exploration journey connected UNDP Ukraine and our COST Action. Together we run a very inspiring NBS event called the Community Safari in Kyiv. The idea of a safari event was to empower grassroots activists […]
The 3rd MC and working group meeting was held from 4th of March until 6th of March 2020 at Istanbul Aydin University. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak the number of participants was diminished and only 55 of the planned 90 persons attended. With the support of technology additional people could participate in the MC meeting […]
The CA17133 core team took part in the stakeholder workshop on Circular Cities held by Impact Hub Zürich on January 28th 2020. The idea was to explore the opportunities to operationalize the Circular Economy framework in the context of Swiss cities. Dr. Günter Langergraber Action Chair and Johannes Kisser WG3 lead gave presentations and all […]
The CA17133 core team had a meeting at ZHAW facilities in Wädenswil Switzerland on January 27th and 28th. Main outcomes from the meeting are: All 39 COST countries are participating in the Action as well as six observers, in total 420 persons are taking direct part or following the Action. The Deliverables according to the […]
On September 16-18 2019 CA17133 held WG meetings, had study visits and attended the FRUSH event in Finland. The WG meetings started in Visamäki the main campus of Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK). On Day 2 the group departed from Hämeenlinna to visit the Circular City of the Future in Tampere Hiedanranta. The Tampere […]
A call for the ReNature Summer School is now launched. The summer school is organised from 30 Sep – 4 Oct 2019 in Malta and is supported by the COST Action Circular City. The Action will support the ReNature Summer School by providing grant to 15 trainees. Application deadline for the summer school is 10 […]
During June 18th to 28th 2019, a summer school “When the stakes are high: Water Engineering and Global Diplomacy for Sustainable Cities. Decentralized Sanitation, Recycling and Zero-waste concepts” will be held in Piran, Slovenia. The summer school, is free of charge for CA17133 members. Further information about the summer school.
The core group and members of WG5 of the CA17133 will meet in Ljubljana on the 28 and 29 of March 2019. The participants will reflect on the first meeting of this Action by revising the research goals, estimate the progress towards the goals. Given the challenging and highly interdisciplinary research topic of the Action […]
The COST Action CA17133 held its 2nd MC meeting, WG workshops and Core team meetings at BOKU University Vienna 13-15 February 2019. The event was very successful laying the platform and plans for the Action. The first articles were planned in all five work groups, the first STSMs were decided and the communication group started […]
The CA17133 Action was formally started on 22 October 2018 in Brussels with the first MC meeting. Carmensita Maimban and Mickael Pero from COST gave an introduction to COST and the objectives of COST Actions, the COST Excellence and Inclusiveness Policy. The MoU of the COST Action was presented as well as the WG structure. […]
