NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities is a cross-disciplinary knowledge cluster of architects, planners, designers, artists, engineering, ICT, social and economic sciences. Together, we offer open urban innovation, co-creation and decision support for people-centric smart sustainable cities, supporting public and private sector as well as civic society with a unique merger of transformative, technological, artistic and practice-based research. With urban living labs, public-private partnerships and integrated design thinking, the initiative supports cities in their ambition to truly become cities for people, cities of culture, green cities, digital cities and learning cities – in short, truly smart and sustainable.

NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities coordinates amongst others the following projects and programmes:

• ClimaGen — Climate-resilient reGeneration and renaturing for, by and with vulnerable neighbourhoods, striving towards net-zero (EU Cities Mission and EU Climate Adaptation Mission)
• Bauhaus Bites – Positive Food Environments Fortified with Nature-Based Solutions and New European Bauhaus
• NEB-STAR — New European Bauhaus STAvanger – NEB Lighthouse project
• Re-Value — Re-Valuing Urban Quality & Climate Neutrality in European Waterfront Cities
• CrAFt – Creating Actionable Futures (New European Bauhaus transformations towards climate-neutral, beautiful and inclusive cities)
• The +CityxChange smart city lighthouse project (Positive Energy Districts)
• The EERA Joint Programme Smart Cities
• The HEU-NUP Horizon Europe Norwegian Urban Partnership.

NTNU is a partner of the European Commission's New European Bauhaus initiative, and we contribute to the ENHANCE European Universities of Technology Alliance.

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