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6. 5. 2025 sa pracovníci SPECTRA Centra excelencie EÚ zúčastnili Local Climate Sandbox workshopu realizovanom v rámci projektu BeReady – UrBan hEat islands REsilience, prepAreDness and mitigation strategY (Interreg Danube Region Programme) v Ratiboři.

28.4.2025 bola v Ratiboři za účasti SPECTRA Centra excelencie EÚ v rámci projektu BeReady – UrBan hEat islands REsilience, prepAreDness and mitigation strategY (Interreg Danube Region Programme) realizovaná prezentácia inovatívnych adaptačných opatrení vhodných na UHI, ktorých cieľom je zvýšiť tepelný komfort lokality.

V marci – apríli 2025 pripravili pracovníci SPECTRA Centra excelencie EÚ v rámci projektu BeReady – UrBan hEat islands REsilience, prepAreDness and mitigation strategY (Interreg Danube Region Programme) príklady dobrej praxe z oblasti realizovaných adaptačných opatrení.

24. 3. 2025 realizovali pracovníci SPECTRA Centra excelencia EÚ pracovnú cestu v obci Ratiboř v Čechách v rámci projektu BeReady – UrBan hEat islands REsilience, prepAreDness and mitigation strategY (Interreg Danube Region Programme).

18.7.2024 realizovali pracovníci SPECTRA Centra excelencie EÚ pracovnú cestu v obciach Ratiboř v Čechách a v Hornom Sŕní na Slovensku. Ide o obce, ktoré sú partnermi v projekte BeReady – UrBan hEat islands REsilience, prepAreDness and mitigation strategY (Interreg Danube Region Programme). Projekt sa zameriava na identifikáciu mestských tepelných ostrovov (UHI – urban heat island) v krajinách Podunajského regiónu, pričom zohľadňuje prístupy založené na ekosystémoch. Cieľom projektu je poskytnúť samosprávam nástroje a riešenia na hodnotenie zraniteľnosti UHI a navrhnúť postupy ako navrhovať opatrenia a tvoriť politiky, ktoré sa týkajú riešenia dopadov zmeny klímy.

Increasingly, cities are facing the negative effects of climate change and are struggling to adapt. However, their adaptation strategies often do not work according to the plan and expectations of communities, because citizens and stakeholders are not sufficiently involved in their development. The Interreg CICADA4CE project assists cities in designing and implementing an effective climate change policy, based on the concept of adaptation through ecosystem services and community-based activities. With the support of the Interreg CICADE4CE project, communities including citizens, entrepreneurs, public administrations, institutions and others are working together to create and implement proposals for improving public urban spaces in the context of climate change, in an environment we call Urban Living Labs (ULL). Communities are involved in living labs from the origination of an idea or identification of a problem, through suggestions of possible solutions, their selection to implementation and evaluation.

This week, researchers Oleksii Yehorchenkov and Nataliia Yehorchenkova, attended the 36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024 at Sciences Po University in Paris, France. They presented the outputs of their studies at the university.

Within the event valuable discussions were held with EU representatives on various topics from using AI in Urban Planning area to potential support for the Ukrainian academic community. Also there were productive meetings with the AESOP Transboundary Planning and Governance group to prepare for upcoming roundtable, “Inclusive and Cohesive Urban Development in European Cities: European Reflections and Learnings for Post-War Urban Planning“, which will be organized at the Institute of Management of STUBA on October 18, 2024.

The participation in the event was supported by European Union, the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the projects No. 09I03-03-V01-00024 and No. 09I03-03-V01-00025.

Within the project V4RIT-SUARR REGIONS IN TRANSITION SUPPORTING UKRAINE REDEVELOPMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION members of Spectra CE EU took part in the organization of Study trip to Horná Nitra region (30.5.-1.6.2024) for representatives of local authorities and academic community from Ukraine.