Book of Abstracts from the Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) Conference 2025
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Synopsis
The Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) organises its annual conference to address systemic and urgent issues in urban research, bringing together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to advance knowledge and collaboration. Each year, the conference provides a platform to explore critical questions at the intersection of sustainability, climate action, and social justice, while also contributing to education and capacity-building in these fields.
In 2025, the conference took place in Rome at the National Research Council of Italy under the theme Sustainable and Climate-Neutral Cities for Inclusive and Equitable Urban Futures. It highlights the urgency of addressing today’s polycrisis while recognising the planetary dimension of urbanisation.
The 2025 UERA Conference featured 45 abstracts and full paper presentations, organized across five thematic sections, which structure this Book of Abstracts.
The complete proceedings are currently under preparation and will be published by Springer in 2026. The DOI for the Springer publication will be shared on this page once it is available. This proceedings employed a double-blind peer-review process.
Forfatterbiografier
Enza Lissandrello is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University with a background in urban planning and public policy, human geography and socio-technical transition studies. Her work examines urban and regional planning under contemporary trends of reflexive modernization, participation, deliberation, conflicts and issues of representation. She has taught and published on the roles of the planners and policy actors in planning with sustainable aims and though deliberative forms. She has led various empirical projects on cross-border governance in Italy, France and Switzerland (the Mont-Blanc area), the planning of sustainable transitions in The Netherlands (Amsterdam and Waterdunen) and on the role of planners as catalysts of change in Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). She has also engaged in research on gamification as a mediation strategy between citizens and policy managers in several EU cities (Amsterdam, Ghent, Helsinki, Fundao, Palermo, Barcelona) for the transformation of urban mobility values. Her main research interests are on the practice and the theory of planning, urban governance and participation, deliberation and power, performative studies, sustainable transitions, interpretive methods of policy analysis and planning, critical approaches to smart citizenships.
Carmelina Cosmi (M.Sc. in Physics, Ph.D.) has a strong background in energy systems analysis and modelling, sustainability, smart governance and support to local authorities on sustainable strategies for resource efficiency, climate change mitigation, and policy evaluation. She has been thematic leader and scientific expert in many international research projects (e.g. Interreg MED PrioritEE, Interreg IVC Project RENERGY, SEE ORIENTGATE, IEE RES2020, FP7 REACCESS, FP6 NEEDS) and contributed to JP Smart Cities and JPI Urban Europe. Her scientific activities have given rise to numerous papers appeared in international Journals and Conferences.