The JPI Urban Europe Network has concluded its BTC ENUTC Call 2023. The winners include two international research projects involving researchers from Poland. PLN 1.3 million will be awarded for research.
The JPI Urban Europe supports researchers pursuing international interdisciplinary research projects responding to the challenges of cities and urban areas. The call launched this year (Building transformation capacity through arts and design: Unlocking the full potential for urban transitions) was focused on urban development and development of urban areas.
The BTC ENUTC call was open to researchers working in the Polish research institutions and intending to pursue international research projects in partnership with researchers from Belgium. Bulgaria, Latvia, the Netherlands, Romania or Sweden.
The winning applicants included five international research projects, two of which involved researchers from Poland. They will be awarded over PLN 1.3 million.
- unLoc – Exploring the synergy of human and machine creativity in architecture. Redesigning urban space through machine learning, artistic expression, and community collaboration.
Jacek Złoczowski from the Pedagogical University of Krakow is the principal investigator of the Polish research team. The project budget is over PLN 900,000.
The project aims to develop a method of redesigning cities and buildings with a difficult history by using post-communist architecture as an exemplary manifestation and redefining their form and meaning. Researchers will recommend new functions and strategies of transformations of buildings to adjust them to the needs of their residents. In the project, they will use the machine learning algorithms that will help them create alternative pictures of urban areas.
- The Urban Food Factory (Miejska Fabryka Żywności) – A web-based decision support manual to reuse inner-city multi-storey carparks for controlled environment agriculture.
Monika Anna Szopińska-Mularz from the z Rzeszów University of Technology is the principal investigator of the Polish research team. The project will be awarded funding of nearly PLN 415,000.
The project aims to demonstrate how adaptive reuse of car parking structures for controlled environment agriculture can strengthen urban social, economic and environmental resilience. A web-based decision support manual will be developed for the creation of Urban Farming Living Labs. Interactive 3D models will be created to improve understanding of the concept.
NCN within the JPI Urban Europe network
The National Science Centre has cooperated with the JPI Urban Europe Network since 2015 in the organisation of calls for proposals aimed at researchers pursuing international research projects in the area of urban issues and challenges. So far, Polish researches have had an opportunity to apply for funding in seven calls of JPI Urban Europe.