The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) is one of the organizations staffing Viable Cities, and is also the host organization. Here you can find the latest news about KTH.
A new EU initiative - UniCities, led by KTH - aims to support stakeholders in Ukraine in building skills to rebuild cities, while making them climate neutral and sustainable for the future.
In mid-March, the Government Offices of Sweden hosted an expert meeting on the 2030 Agenda under the Swedish Presidency. 2023 marks the halfway point in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and it is clear that the work needs to be stepped up if the global goals are to be met on time.
Viable Cities is growing and now welcomes Maria Tengvard, Lars Johansson and Karin Linnea Petrusson to the program office. They bring more muscle to our joint work towards the mission of climate-neutral and sustainable cities by 2030.
At today's Annual General Meeting, the Viable Cities board has new leadership. New Chairman after departing Allan Larsson is Cecilia Schelin Seidegård, former county governor and hospital director. The new vice Chairman is Anders Wijkman, Chairman in the Club of Rome and Climate-KIC.
It is now clear which projects have been granted funds in the call for Energy Positive Neighbourhoods, a collaboration between Viable Cities and JPI Urban Europe. Cities4PEDs, Interact, PED-ID and Trans-PED, all with Swedish partners, are now tasked with facilitating learning between cities and countries to create energy positive neighbourhoods in Europe.
Urban cultivation with waste heat from data centers and models of climate-smart music and sports events are examples of 12 projects receiving a total of €28 million to accelerate the climate transition.
It looks at the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable the sustainable smart cities of the future.
On June 12, a final seminar was held within the innovation project Mo-Bo, funded by Viable Cities. In connection with this seminar, the report "Mo-Bo | Mobility services pave the way for innovative architecture" and a short leaflet "Steering towards new goals Residential blocks with parking...
Illustration: Anders Westerberg On the theme of "a more human city", KTH's Jill Klackenberg has interviewed Viable Cities program manager Olga Kordas in an article published on KTH's website. In the interview Olga says, among other things: - That people living in cities are...
The 2018 Almedalen Week in Visby attracted over 45,000 unique visitors and over 4,300 seminars and other events took place during the week. Of the week's events, 55 dealt explicitly with the topic of sustainable cities and 611 with digitalization - an intense and inspiring...
Can digitalization help growing Swedish cities take the lead in becoming climate neutral? Monday 2/7 at 16.00 - 17.00 Teaterskeppet (Lilla Matsalen), Visby hamn, Visby Digitalization is a powerful enabler of innovation. Things like artificial intelligence, blockchain technology and the sharing economy are opening...
An analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks (SWOT) has been produced within Viable Cities. The document you can read below has been produced as a basis for Vinnova's assignment from the government to conduct a mapping and analysis of...
On November 23, the building at Teknikringen 10B was inaugurated where the SEED (Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering) and Real Estate and Construction institutions have moved in. The building was designed by AIX Arkitekter and built on six levels, five of which are above ground. On the entrance level there is...
On Thursday, November 9, we held a Strategy Day, where our partners met to discuss various strategic projects to be implemented by our members. During the day, participants took part in different workshops where they could brainstorm ideas and...
Many thanks to all of you who participated on Tuesday when we held an information meeting at KTH, about Viable Cities' first call Energy and climate transition for viable cities! If you want to see the presentation again, or if you did not have the opportunity to participate,...
Is digitalization an obstacle or an opportunity for sustainable societal development? How do we ensure that more efficient processes also contribute to sustainability? What are the concrete environmental problems that digitalization can solve? KTH invites you to a full day on how Sweden can digitize for sustainability. During the day, we take a holistic approach to how IT can help solve major societal problems. We share lessons from our research and talk to representatives from politics, business and government agencies.
Peter Ardell at KTH has interviewed program manager Olga Kordas about Viable Cities. This is what he writes: The strategic innovation program Viable Cities is now starting - the largest investment to date in Sweden in research and innovation on smart and sustainable cities.
The strategic innovation program Viable Cities is now starting - the largest investment to date in Sweden in research and innovation on smart and sustainable cities. SEK 960 million over twelve years will be invested in the program, which is led by KTH and brings together some 50 actors from several different research fields as well as business, government, municipalities and civil society.
