Mistra Urban Futures new project URBAN-NEXUS with funding from EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development started on September 1 and runs over three years. A kick-off will take place 17-18th of November in Sofia, Bulgaria.
URBAN-NEXUS will focus on developing long-term partnerships that promotes collaboration between a wide variety of stakeholders regarding urban development issues. A key objective is to promote collaboration between researchers and practitioners. Mistra Urban Futures contribution to the project is expertise within issues relating to sustainable land use in cities. A dialogue cafe that focuses on this theme will be held in Gothenburg in February 2013.For more information about the project