Half of humanity – 3.5 billion people – live in cities today and 5 billion people are projected to live in cities in the nearest future. There are numerous challenges awaiting the cities of tomorrow. Cities need to react to: demographic trends, social inequality, climate change, environmental pollution (including air pollution), increasing energy consumption, mobility issues, carbon emissions and many other challenges.
Public or private entities, commercial or non-commercial as well as non-governmental organisations, including research organisation and enterprises from Poland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein are invited to propose candidates for the IdeaLab workshop.
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IdeaLab workshop financed from the European Economic Area and Norwegian Financial Mechanism, which will be held in Otwock, Mazovian Voivodeship (close to Warsaw), Poland from 2 to 6 March 2020. The goal of the workshop is to develop ground-breaking, interdisciplinary research project ideas for services and solutions for the cities in 2040.
The participant’s application is submitted only by e-mail to idealab@ncbr.gov.pl. The application deadline is 30 November 2019 at 16.00 CET.
