On 10 March 2026, from 11:00 to 12:00 CET, the OPTI-UP project will host an online public webinar (MS Teams) in English entitled “How Small and Medium Cities Can Build Smarter Public Transport Systems.” Small and medium-sized cities across Central Europe are facing increasingly complex challenges when planning and managing public transport systems. Limited financial…
The Comprehensive Strategy for Sustainable and Efficient Public Transport Networks in Central Europe is now online, released as the latest deliverable of the Interreg Central Europe project OPTI-UP. This Strategy provides a practical methodology designed to support small and medium-sized cities in strengthening their public transport systems through evidence-based planning, better policy integration, and structured stakeholder engagement. Many smaller cities…
Last week, Poliedra and the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) – Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) hosted the first round of short staff visits within the CROSS-REIS project, marking an important milestone in strengthening research collaboration among partner institutions. The visit brought together academic and non-academic representatives from the University of Niš (Serbia), University…
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…
