International Cooperation
IPR Prague recognizes the importance of exchanging ideas on policies and practices, building new relationships and benchmarking Prague’s performance against innovative cities. We collaborate closely with Prague’s partnership cities but also with other, primarily European, cities. This collaboration has taken many forms, such as study tours, bilateral delegation visits or workshops with foreign experts, providing opportunities for peer learning.
We have also participated in a number of EU-funded projects and analyses and we always welcome new partnerships and collaboration with cities from around the world. Please contact us at international@ipr.praha.eu to discuss opportunities for cooperation and knowledge exchange.
Ongoing International Projects
OECD |
Governance of Land Use in OECD countries: Prague was chosen to be one of the case study cities for the Governance of Land Use in OECD countries project. This project examined local land use policies and practices, and provided recommendations to policy makers. The project's final report examines land use and governance trends in Prague and the broader metropolitan area, including the formal elements of the planning system and broader governance arrangements such as rural-urban partnerships. It provides a number of recommendations to ensure the sustainable development of regional transportation and infrastructure, affordable housing and quality public amenities. You can browse through the complete report by clicking here. |
UNALAB |
IPR Prague is part of the European project "Urban Nature Labs" (UNaLAB) in the framework of the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission. In the project a strategic roadmap for the implementation of innovative, replicable, and locally-attuned nature-based solutions (NBSs) will be developed to enhance the climate and water resilience of the City of Prague. Relevant stakeholders will be continuously involved in co-creation processes to the roadmap. As part of the project, the City of Prague is one of five Follower Cities expected to draw lessons from the experiences of the Frontrunner Cities of Tampere (Finland), Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and Genoa (Italy), all of which are already employing Nature Based Solutions to help create more climate resilient cities. The UNaLab consortium is comprised of 28 partners from 10 cities across Europe and beyond, including municipalities, research, business and industry. The UNaLab partner cities commit to addressing these challenges, focusing on climate and water related issues, within an innovative and citizen-driven paradigm. UNaLab cities aim to develop smarter, more inclusive, more resilient and increasingly sustainable societies through innovative nature-based solutions (NBS). Nature-based solutions (NBS) present an approach to address urban challenges through working with nature, in order to achieve ecological and resilience objectives, while creating opportunities for social and economic innovation concurrently. The Follower City Prague is represented in the project by IPR Prague in collaboration with the Capital City of Prague. The project launched in June 2017 and will run until May 2022. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 730052 Topic: SCC-2-2016-2017: Smart Cities and Communities Nature based solutions. For more information, please visit UNALAB´s website. |
TRIANGULUM |
Prague is a follower city in Triangulum, an interdisciplinary EU research project funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission, whose goal is to demonstrate, disseminate and replicate solutions and frameworks for Europe’s future Smart Cities. Throughout the project, he three Lighthouse Cities of Stavanger (NO), Einhoven (NL) and Manchester (UK) will serve as testbeds for innovative projects which focus on the topics of sustainable mobility, energy, and ICT and business solutions. The Follower Cites, Prague (CZ), Sabadell (ES) and Leipzig (DE), aim to develop and conduct smart solutions in order to replicate the Lighthouse Cities' solutions. This project has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No. 646578. For more information, please visit Triangulum's website. |
SPIMA |
The SPIMA project (Spatial dynamics and strategic planning in metropolitan areas) is part of the Targeted analysis managed by ESPON (European Observation Network for territorial development and cohesion). The ESPON conducts comprehensive spatial observations to generate studies about spatial developments. Targeted analysis projects like SPIMA aim to capture and provide perspectives of European policies to national development policy levels. Besides Prague the cities of Oslo, Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Zürich, Brno, Vienna, Terrassa and Turin participate in the SPIMA project. The main topic of the examination is about how spatial development in metropolitan areas is working. It needs to be examined how the collaborative work in multi-level governance in metropolitan regions and how arrangements and agreements between the participating stakeholders can be done. Therefore in this project, information about the current state of spatial planning and policies in metropolitan areas are collected and strategies and methods which support the practices at the metropolitan scale are identified. As an outcome there will be recommendations for successful implementation of metropolitan development and policy. For more information please visit this webpage. |
Previous participation in international and EU-funded projects
Morgenstadt City Lab: IPR Prague participated in the Morgenstadt City Lab, a research project coordinated by the Fraunhofer-Institute. The aim of the project was to create a complex sustainable city profile and put forward relevant strategic recommendations in the Smart Cities agenda. An in-depth analysis was published in March 2016, which you can download here.
UrbanAdapt: IPR Prague participated in UrbanAdapt, a pilot project financed from the Norwegian Grants, focused on the preparation of the city’s adaptation strategy.
The Urban Heat Island Project aims to develop mitigation and risk prevention and management strategies concerning the urban heat island phenomenon (UHI). The UHI is a microclimatic phenomenon that occurs in metropolitan areas. It consists of a significant increase in the temperature of the urban area with respect to the surrounding peri-urban and rural neighbourhoods. The project addressed the issue of the UHI phenomenon in 8 of the most relevant metropolitan areas of the Central Europe cooperation programme. You can find out more here.
International Newsletter
In January 2017, IPR Prague introduced the first edition of its international newsletter. We intend to issue it on quarterly basis to keep you up-to-date on the latest urban and strategic planning developments in Prague.
We hope the newsletter will not only inform you about our current activities, but also inspire you and initiate new opportunities for interntational cooperation.
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