Depopulation, weak digital infrastructure, and low levels of entrepreneurship present significant challenges to the vitality of rural areas. The More Than a Village project has developed a set of comprehensive Policy Recommendations, now published in its newly released document: “A Tool for Policy and Decision Makers for Advancing Smart Village Models in Central Europe.” Based on pilot initiatives in…
Last week Poliedra attended the kick-off meeting of the research and innovation project URSOILL in Uppsala, Sweden. As part of the European Commission’s Mission Soil programme, URSOILL focuses on developing innovative solutions for urban soil restoration through a network of five Living Labs located across Europe (Italy, Sweden, Spain, Greece, Luxembourg). Urban soils are increasingly…
URSOILL: Innovative solutions for sustainable urban soil restoration through living labs
Period: 2025-2030
As a result of collaboration in the UR-DATA research project (GA No. 101059994), we published a monography on multi-criteria decision aiding (MCDA) entitled: Multi-Criteria Decision Aiding techniques in the sustainability arena. The volume aims to provide an overview of MCDA approaches for supporting decision-making processes in the sustainability arena, which often require the integration of multiple perspectives,…
Poliedra participated in the 17th International Summer School of Economics “Smart City & AI – Student Edition” organised by the colleagues at the Faculty of Economics in Nis, Serbia. This year’s school was the last one held in partnership with the UR-DATA project. More than 50 participants engaged in lectures, workshops, case studies, and cultural activities,…
Two of the projects in which us are involved are listed as examples of implementation and strategic projects in the Commission Working Staff Document, accompanying document to the V Report of the European Commission on the implementation of European macro-regional strategies addressed to the Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee…
On May 27th – 28th GreenGov third Consortium Meeting took place in Milan, hosted by Lombardy Region. All of GreenGov Project Partner attended the event, either in person (Ile-de-France Region, Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Regional Development Agency South-West Oltenia, Lower Saxon Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transport and Housing, Brussels-Capital Region, North-West Regional Development Agency, South Moravian Agency for Public Innovation…
We had the pleasure of hosting a group of middle school students from the San Giuseppe La Salle Institute of Milan, as part of an initiative aimed at helping them choose their high school and university paths. The meeting took place at Poliedra and offered participants a hands-on experience of what “applied research” really means.…
The OPTI-UP project reaches a first goal with the finalisation of two deliverables. The Comprehensive Data Report provides an in-depth analysis of the public transport networks within the project area. It identifies potential synergies and conflicts between public transport and spatial planning and offers actionable recommendations for improvement. By comparing best practices from other cities and…
The first technical meeting and the steering committee meeting of the OPTI-UP project took place in Italy, in Modena on 15 and 16 October 2024 and were organised by the Agency for Mobility and Local Public Transport of Modena. The Central European partnership of the project examined the complete analysis of local public transport, typically…
