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1. Sufficiently representative to encourage adoption and adaptation by other regions sharing common features and challenges.

2. Sufficiently complementary to cover a broad scope of spatial, functional, socio-economic and governance conditions.

3. Sufficiently diverse to allow the development of unique and clearly distinctive solutions

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Delft University of Technology

The Delft University of Technology is the oldest, largest and most comprehensive university of technology in the Netherlands. It is an institution of national importance and of significant international standing. The University collaborates on a structural basis with other international education and research institutes. It has partnerships with governments, branch organisations, numerous consultancies, industry partners and companies from the small and medium business sectors.

Rodrigo Cardoso

Rodrigo is Assistant Professor at TU Delft, Department of Urbanism, and the Principal Investigator of InPUT. His research focuses on the spatial, functional, institutional and cultural understanding of urban regions, the features and challenges of European medium-sized cities, and future visions of urbanism focusing on wellbeing and human needs. Besides InPUT, Rodrigo is involved in other European projects, including for ESPON and Horizon Europe.

Caroline Newton

Caroline is the Van Eesteren Fellow and Associate Professor at TU Delft, Department of Urbanism. Her work focuses on the social and political dimensions of design. Caroline works of questions of post-colonial planning, intersectionality in/for design and planning, participatory planning and design approaches to knowledge production. She encourages advocacy in spatial practices and strategic planning to enable alternative futures.

Birgit Hausleitner

Birgit works at TU Delft, Department of Urbanism, and is an expert in spatial analytics, with a focus on the development of urban structural typologies that enable a city’s or region’s potential for economic activities at multiples scales. She developed methods of spatial comparison which she applied in national and international research projects. Birgit has experience in developing systemic design/planning instruments that enable co-creation

Ana Poças Ribeiro

Ana is a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft, dedicated to the InPUT project. She works on topics of sustainable consumption, circularity transitions, and sustainable mobility, from a social and participatory perspective. Ana believes in the societal role of scientists and actively tries to bring urgent sustainability topics to policy and practice discourses, by being involved in municipal politics and co-founding the Dutch Degrowth Platform.

University of Antwerp

The University of Antwerp is a young, dynamic and forward-thinking university. It integrates the assets of its historical roots with its ambition to contribute positively to society, espousing active pluralism. In that spirit, it stimulates critical research and teaching, reflection and debate on scientific, social, philosophical and ethical questions. The University has more than 6,000 members of personnel in various layers, organised according to basic academic and administrative structures and more than 20.000 students. It is is embedded in an extensive socio-economic network, which ensures engagement in intensive dialogue with society.

Greet De Block

Greet is Research Professor in Urban Studies, the director of the Antwerp Urban Studies Institute and a member of the Centre for Urban History. Her research focuses on infrastructure and mobility as driving forces of socio-spatial development, particularly in urban-rural areas. She coordinates training and research networks on transit-oriented development in rural areas, and interactions between mobility and urbanization and socio-environmental qualities.

Stijn Oosterlynck

Stijn is a Full Professor in Urban Sociology at the University of Antwerp and the scientific director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Citizenship, Urbanity and Diversity. His research focuses on poverty and diversity in cities, the politics of urban development, place-based forms of solidarity and urban civil society. He is involved in a variety of projects on transit-oriented development, religious solidarity and integration policies in small and medium-sized cities.

Technische Universität Wien

The Vienna University of Technology, commonly known as TU Wien, is Austria's largest research and educational institution in the field of technology and natural sciences. More than 4,000 scientists are researching "technology for people" in five main research areas at eight faculties. The content of the studies offered is derived from the excellent research, benefiting more than 27,000 students in 55 degree programmes. As a driver of innovation, TU Wien strengthens the business location, facilitates cooperation and contributes to the prosperity of society.

The Institute for Spatial Planning (ISP) is part of the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning at TU Wien. The Research Unit Sociology at ISP engages in research, consultancy and teaching in the areas of social and technological change and innovation, social inequalities, poverty and discrimination, and participation, planning and democracy. The institute’s understanding of research is inter- and transdisciplinary. The methods and theories include socio-spatial analysis, participatory action research, dialogical-ethnographic approaches, policy and discourse analysis, actor and governance analysis, as well as spatial process and structural analysis.

Alexander Hamedinger

Alexander is a Professor at the TU Wien Institute of Spatial Planning since 2014 and holds a venia docendi in urban and regional sociology. His research focuses on urban, city-regional and regional governance, smart cities, socio-spatial inequalities and processes on participation, sharing, commoning and co-creation in spatial planning. Methodologically, he relies on participatory action research and qualitative empirical research.

Eva Schmolmüller

Eva works as a project assistant at TU Wien. She holds a degree in architecture as well as in social work. In her previous research and current projects, Eva specialized on the intersections of planning and social issues, e.g. in the context of homelessness, universal design, housing for the elderly, participation and socio-ecological urban renewal. She works as a lecturer, community worker, curator and researcher.

University of Porto

Founded in 1911, University of Porto's mission is to produce scientific, cultural and artistic knowledge, offer higher education firmly rooted in research, invest in the social and economic valorisation of knowledge and actively participate in the progress of the communities to which the university belongs. It has 3400 researchers and lecturers and more than 34000 students.

As a multi-university research centre, CEGOT (Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning) develops state-of-the-art research in Geography and Spatial Planning. Its members are mostly associated with the universities of Porto and Coimbra. Most members have a background in Geography, but over the years CEGOT has also attracted researchers from Urban Planning, Architecture, Sociology, Economics, Engineering, Public Health and Tourism, strengthening its multidisciplinary skills. This is directly associated with the vision of CEGOT that to tackle contemporary societal challenges a collaborative, transdisciplinary and territorial-based approach is needed, grounded in a geographical understanding of the world.

José Alberto Rio

José is a Full Professor at the University of Porto and a founding member of CEGOT, the Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning. He investigates topics of urban geography, urbanism and local and regional development. His applied research experience ranges from advising regional institutions on the Urban Agenda and development strategies, municipal planning, commercial strategies and heritage protection, among other topics.

University of Minho

University of Minho is a research university focusing on the regional, national and international socioeconomic environment, and invested in growing the knowledge, RD&I chain, namely through intellectual property management, standing as one of the Portuguese HEIs with more registered patents. U Minho has 31 Research Units, 87% ranked Excellent and Very Good, and ~700 active research projects, corresponding to ~€160 million total budget.

The Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) of U Minho is the leading research unit in Communication Sciences field in Portugal and a consolidated, creative and dynamic research group. The unit focuses on the scientific domains of media literacy, communication and culture policies, visual and sound culture, intercultural communication, cultural studies, organisational and strategic and science communication, social challenges (ageing, health, disability), media, digital languages and journalism

Pedro Chamusca

Pedro is a research associate at CECS – Communication and Society Research Centre at the University of Minho. He develops research on urban geography, territorial cohesion, GIS, urban governance, tourism and spatial planning. Recent work coordinated by Pedro has focused on the association of territorial cohesion with territory-based innovation processes, including the development of a territorial assessment and evaluation tool for the Centro region in Portugal.

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