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HomeThe new Leipzig Charter and the JRC’s urban activities
Exploring the role of science for policy post 2020
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This study investigates the role that the Joint Research Centre (JRC) can play in supporting urban policymaking within the framework for sustainable urban development proposed by the New Leipzig Charter (NLC). It analyses how the core urban activities of the Territorial Development Unit of the JRC (JRC.B.3) align with the NLC’s overarching framework, and how these could be strengthened beyond 2020. The study considers both gaps and opportunities in the wider EU urban science-policy interface, triggering a broader reflection on the role of science for policy in the post-2020 programming context. In fact, both the NLC and its Implementation Document, are closely linked with the post-2020 Cohesion Policy of the European Commission and the proposal for a European Urban Initiative (EUI). As a new instrument to de-fragment EU urban policy, research, and practice, the EUI will offer opportunities to establish an effective science-policy interface that supports urban policymaking at all governmental levels. In this context, the NLC strategically stimulates the debate about the role and potential of science for policy in the EU. In particular, it builds on the need for ‘Better knowledge’ as propagated by the Urban Agenda for the EU (UAEU), which the EUI also commits to support. Against this background, the study considers it meaningful to align the urban activities of the JRC.B.3 with the priorities of the NLC and its Implementation Document. Such an exercise can help to further strengthen the evidence-base for sustainable urban development policies in the EU.
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- Corporate author(s): Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
- Personal author(s): Risi, F ; Maxwell, L ; Scheurer, L ; Grisel, M
- Themes: Scientific and technical research , Regional policy and regional economies
- Subject: economic and social cohesion , EU regional policy , policymaking , regional development , report , research policy , sustainable development , town , urbanisation
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| ISSN | ISBN 978-92-76-26954-0 | DOI 10.2760/232000 | Catalogue number KJ-06-20-081-EN-N |
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