Toolkit for Gender Inclusive Mobility Planning: Best practices and case studies for urban planners and designers

Published:13 Feb 2026

This toolkit, written by Leah Gerber, is an introduction to gender-inclusive mobility planning, meant to serve as a resource for designers, planners, and policymakers seeking to integrate gender-inclusive mobility into the planning and design process. The toolkit aims to collect and distill existing information to:

Understand the Problem – How transport and mobility systems systematically underserve women, gender minorities, and girls.

UNaLAB Toolkit: Tools for co-creation

Published:04 Aug 2025

The UNaLab Toolkit collects all of the instruments used throughout the UNaLab project in a user-friendly and widely applicable format. The tools are used for the co-creation and experimentation of innovative solutions in a real-life urban environment together with the engagement of citizens and all relevant stakeholder groups in a city. It includes a suite of co-creation tools for Need Finding, Ideation, Strategy planning, Experimentation and Feedback gathering. The tools come in a wide range of formats from games, workshops to templates.

Greek Cities in the new Digital Age

Published:13 Mar 2025

As part of the Support Services for EU Smart communities, the European Commission has the goal to “Increase Digitalisation Awareness and Readiness of EU Communities”. The aim of this initiative is to support EU communities at the early stages or that have not yet begun their digital transformation journey by providing resources, best practices, and training to develop digital strategies.

Living Lab Handbook for Urban Living Labs Developing Nature-Based Solutions

Published:19 Feb 2025

With this handbook, you can learn how to develop an Urban Living Lab, based on the experiences, research and practical experience from the UNaLab project. The tips included here are given by the Living Lab experts who have successfully set up a Living Lab in their own community. You will learn what questions need to be asked, who is working in a Living Lab and what obstacles you need to watch out for! At the end of the handbook, you will find an interactive tool to guide you through your Living Lab journey.

Urban scale digital twins in data-driven society: Challenging digital universalism in urban planning decision-making

Published:11 Dec 2024

Charitonidou M. Urban scale digital twins in data-driven society: Challenging digital universalism in urban planning decision-making. International Journal of Architectural Computing. 2022;20(2):238-253. doi: 10.1177/14780771211070005

Urban future with a purpose: 12 trends shaping the future of cities

Published:11 Dec 2024

Urban Future with a Purpose is a forward-looking research study by Deloitte that explores emerging trends and future directions in urban living. The report analyses how cities are evolving to become more sustainable, inclusive, and purpose-driven, highlighting the role of technology, governance, and citizen engagement in shaping the next generation of urban life.

Urban digital twins for smart cities and citizens

Published:11 Dec 2024

Dembski, Fabian & Wössner, Uwe & Letzgus, Mike & Ruddat, Michael & van der Laag-Yamu, Claudia. (2020). Urban Digital Twins for Smart Cities and Citizens: The Case Study of Herrenberg, Germany. Sustainability. 

Trustworthy urban digital twins

Published:11 Dec 2024

Sophie Meszaros presented “Trustworthy Urban Digital Twins” a collaboration between IMEC and SMIT, whom did research around the topics: Mobility, Logistics, Air quality, Noise quality, Sustainability and Infrastructure (e.g.: subsidized group renovations) in the model of Urban Digital Twin. Sophie proceed to explain the concept of initial transformation that occurs when the experts and the public servents start discussing on what is relevant or not and the different points of view collide.

TESTA, THE secure network infrastructure for cross-border information exchanges between EU Member States and EU public bodies

Published:11 Dec 2024

TESTA is a private managed underlying secured & trusted communication network infrastructure allowing secure information exchange capabilities for operational co-operation & collaboration between the EU Institutions, EU Agencies, public authorities located in the Member States, UK, EFTA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) & in the candidate countries (currently Montenegro and North Macedonia and soon Albania and Ukraine).

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