{"id":31270,"date":"2024-08-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swecobelgium.be\/blog\/towards-the-green-transition-collaboration-for-sustainable-cities\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:21:23","slug":"towards-the-green-transition-collaboration-for-sustainable-cities","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.swecobelgium.be\/en\/news\/towards-the-green-transition-collaboration-for-sustainable-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards the Green Transition \u2013 collaboration for sustainable cities\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) European Partnership is an intergovernmental research and innovation program that addresses key challenges of urban transitions.<\/span> By working together <\/span>with DUT, Sweco is combining forces <\/span>towards<\/span> the Green Transition<\/span>.<\/span> Sharing our knowledge <\/span>can strengthen and <\/span>enlarge the positive impact on <\/span>the global<\/span> and local urban change.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nimage of DUT\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Sharing knowledge for more impact<\/h2>\n

We are combining our forces for the Green Transition. The DUT runs the <\/span>Transition Pathways<\/span><\/a> program together with companies, governments and other stakeholders.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Within Sweco, we’re already engaging with this transition through a multilevel knowledge development structure: Urban Insight at Group Level (cross-border cooperation), SIP (cross-division cooperation) and BUUR transition programs (cross-disciplinary cooperation), making our collaboration self-evident.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Collaboration on circular urban economy<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Sweco has already collaborated with DUT on several projects. One of them is a program focused on circular urban economy. Circular economy experts from various Sweco countries, along with the country project leaders from Urban Insight aimed to collect data on best practice cases in circular urban economy in Europe and provided recommendations for DUT.\u00a0<\/span> Our colleagues Felipe Gonzalez, Kevin Penalva and Kathleen Van de Werf worked on this project.<\/span><\/p>\n

We led the data collection of these specific cases where DUT could test and refine the database by providing feedback during the process. This helped the organization to define the system boundary that enables resource sharing and to understand the scale at which a best practice case is developed. It can also help to identify relevant stakeholders who can benefit from the value being created.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The results have been transformed into a framework <\/span>that not only serves to cluster and label the collected cases, but also provides a holistic framework to define the circular urban economy and is structured based on the four impact values:\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n