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3Medium-sized cities across Europe are increasingly and actively attracting skilled migrants. How can stakeholders in these cities best manage the challenges of internationalization? The authors combine academic findings with policy reflections to provide a uniquely interdisciplinary guide for academics, policy makers, and professionals in local governments, universities, HRM departments, for successfully coordinating international talent management.
ARTIKEL
Medium-sized cities across Europe are increasingly and actively attracting skilled migrants. How can these cities best manage the challenges of internationalisation? That is to say: How can they attract, facilitate and integrate skilled migrants, enabling them to contribute to the regional culture and economy, while still serving their local populations and maintaining social cohesion?
In this volume, we combine academic findings with policy reflections to provide a uniquely interdisciplinary guide for academics, policy makers and professionals in local governments, universities, HRM departments, for successfully co-ordinated international talent management.
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In this short paper, we give an overview on how this major trend is unfolding and, specifically, how it affects cities.
We take the following starting points:
• Digitalization is a strong force that “happens” everywhere in the (urban) society. It has positive and negative effects – explored later in this paper –, which might be promoted or redressed by collective action or government intervention. Rejecting or denying it may come at high costs;
• Digital technologies offer new tools and answers to address urban issues; • Digital technologies and their adoption bring a lot of new and unpredictable challenges;
• Digital technologies raise several new ethical questions and dilemma’s regarding privacy, safety and security;
• As in any other major societal transition, legal and institutional systems are not prepared for the digital age. Reality is always ahead of new regulation, resulting in constantly moving “grey areas” where it is unclear which rules (should) apply – think of how to deal with services like AirBnB or Uber.
PAPER
Urban regions are confronted with huge sustainability challenges. Their future depends to a large extent on our ability to promote sustainable urban development. However, sustainability challenges in cities are inherently complex and need integrated, multidisciplinary solutions. This textbook on Smart Sustainable Cities responds to that challenge by capturing theories, methods and tools relevant for researching smart sustainable cities and developing solutions for sustainability challenges within cities. This book thereby serves the great need among students and practitioners to understand the multifaceted nature of Smart Sustainable Cities, to build upon acknowledged cross-disciplinary analytical and design approaches, and to learn how to apply such approaches. Each chapter presents a practical approach to urban sustainability, a relevant case study, and exercises and assignments for students to master the topic. Topics include: Smart Sustainable Cities: an introduction; Systemic Design Thinking; Probing the Future for Smart Sustainable Cities; Social Design of Smart Sustainable Cities; Urban Psychology of Smart Sustainable Cities; Behavioural Change for Smart Sustainable Cities; Healthy Urban Living; Towards Energy Neutral Neighbourhoods; Carbon Footprinting and Accounting; Circular Economy: material and value flows in the city; Promoting Sustainable Urban Mobility; Canvas Business Modelling; Big Data Analytics; Social Value Innovation: from concept to practice.
BOEK
Contribution to conference magazine https://husite.nl/ssc2017/ Conference ‘Smart Sustainable Cities 2017 – Viable Solutions’ The conference ‘Smart Sustainable Cities 2017 – Viable Solutions’ was held on 14 June 2017 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Over 250 participants from all over Europe attended the conference.
CONFERENTIEBIJDRAGE
By 2050, 70% of the population will live in cities. The majority of the persons living in cities will be 60 plus years old. Ageing cities demands for cities environments to adapt to an ageing population. Modern cities though, don’t anticipate fast enough and in an adequate manner to face the challenges due to population-related transitions. Modifying and adapting the built environment with a focus on the aged population could help to support older people facing functional and cognitive decline.
ARTIKEL
In the recent ‘Regional outlook’, the OECD (2014) convincingly argues that cities can be the drivers of national growth and recovery: in principle, their diversity and density makes people and companies more productive and innovative. This is not only a tale of large cities: over the last decade, as recent studies demonstrate (e.g. Dijkstra, 2013) many smaller and medium-sized cities across Europe were important economic engines. But this did not happen automatically: to make that happen, ‘getting cities right’ is the key challenge, and action on the city level matters! As demonstrated by recent OECD data (OECD, 2014), poorly organised cities fail to reap their economic potential.
HOOFDSTUK
From the list of content: " Smart sustainable cities & higher education, Essence: what, why & how? Developing learning materials together; The blended learning environment; Teaching on entrepreneurship; Utrecht municipality as a client; International results; Studentexperiences; International relations; City projects in Turku, Alcoy and Utrecht ".
RAPPORT
This report documents the progress and interim outcomes of Work Package 1.1 within the Cool Cities project under the Interreg North Sea Region programme. WP1.1 focuses on developing Local Context Summary Memos for each partner city, providing a shared evidence base on urban heat risks, vulnerabilities, and governance contexts to support subsequent planning activities.
The report describes how spatial analysis, policy review, and co creation are combined to assess heat stress, exposure, and vulnerability across partner cities. Spatial analyses include high resolution heat indicators such as PET, green and blue infrastructure, slow traffic routes, places to stay, vital urban functions, and social vulnerability indicators. These datasets are synthesized into thematic maps and a combined heat risk index where data availability allows.
In parallel, the report presents a structured inventory and comparative analysis of local, regional, national, and European policies related to heat adaptation. This governance analysis examines adaptation goals, stakeholder involvement, institutional responsibilities, policy instruments, and implementation barriers. City specific policy overviews highlight where information is complete, partially complete, or missing, guiding follow up with partner cities.
Co creation plays a central role in WP1.1. The report documents bilateral data sessions, workshops, and Delphi based exchanges used to validate data, refine methods, and align analytical outputs with local practice. These interactions ensure that the Local Context Summary Memos reflect both technical evidence and practitioner knowledge.
Overall, the report shows that WP1.1 is building a coherent, comparable foundation across partner cities. The outputs form the analytical and institutional basis for the development of Cool Network Plans and Local Action Plans in subsequent work packages, supporting more targeted, equitable, and implementable urban heat adaptation strategies.
RAPPORT
To build sustainable cities and communities (SDG Goal 11), all sections of society, especially marginalized groups, need to be included in the development processes. As the global population ages, the importance of creating inclusive cities is becoming increasingly evident. By prioritizing the needs and preferences of older adults, cities may foster conditions that support independent living, social interaction, and healthy ageing. Urban planning is essential in this regard since it guarantees that the requirements and preferences of older adults are taken into consideration when designing cities. Recognizing older adults’ needs in urban environments can be achieved by involving them in planning and decision-making processes. It is very important to ensure the active participation of them in determining the priority of age-friendly urban planning strategies. For this purpose, geodata collection tools need to be developed and adapted to the needs of older adults. Geodata was gathered for this study using KoBo Toolbox, a free web-based, open-source data collecting tool. This tool facilitates data collection through surveys conducted in the field using mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. The study reveals the preliminary findings of data collected via KoBo Toolbox from four European cities (Bucharest, Kraków, The Hague, and Wrocław) regarding domains acknowledged within the WHO Age-Friendly Cities Framework. The findings also demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the KoBo Toolbox in facilitating inclusive data collection for age-friendly urban planning initiatives. By incorporating the perspectives of older adults through participatory data collection methods, cities can develop and implement strategies that truly meet the needs of their ageing populations and provide inclusive, sustainable, and liveable urban environments for all.
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