About Smart Sustainable Cities

About Smart Sustainable Cities

Text about SSC

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:

  • ClimaGenClimate-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
  • NEB Junction, the New European Bauhaus Hub For Results & Impact
  • CO-WATERS, the Coalition of Waterfront Cities, Regions and Islands

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