Metropolises and health

In the era of so-called “global” health, metropolises hold many advantages when it comes to developing health policies.

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A) Flood protection
B) Urban logistics
C) Revitalization of city centres

Three challenges for the future of metropolises, responses in the form of action programmes.

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Journey to Italy

How Bologna, a heritage city committed to the challenges of the 21st century, is building its future as a green city and a city of knowledge.

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Working time, health and parenting

Personalized adaptation of working time is gaining ground in communities; still modest, the experiments are rather positive.

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Port and industrial challenges of decarbonization

The decarbonization of the economy is at stake in metropolises, in close cooperation between public authorities, industry and research & development.

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A) Food and agricultural transition

For many reasons, dysfunctions, vulnerabilities and the necessary agri-food system transition are challenges also to metropolises.

B) Artificial intelligence

Beyond more or less controlled uses of ChatGPT, the AI interrogates the organization and management of services, and must encourage vigilance on the well-being at work and engagement of the employees. 

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Immersion in the Swedish model

How the Swedish institutional system, that of Stockholm in particular, faces the urban, social and climatic challenges common to all European metropolises.

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A / Port issues, brownfields rehabilitation and cultural and creative industries

Ports, canals, factories… adapting infrastructures to new contemporary challenges. 

B /Behavioral sciences

Many unknown biases affect our behaviors, and hence our management style. 

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The city of tomorrow

The city of tomorrow is a city adapted to the youth of today. This raises the issue of our local authorities’ relationship to youth. It is also the city that will be able to respond to the ecological challenge: how to better understand the issues and contradictory injunctions? What concrete solutions for our local authorities? 

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Social and democratic issues of urban development

Thanks to the mobilization of many personalities, the participants in the BEST study seminar in Berlin benefited from a very rich programme, combining historical perspective, field visits, contemporary issues and project dynamics.

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Transition: prospective scenarios and action plans 

There is an urgent need to organize the ecological transition. If the time has come for national prospective scenarios, the metropolises have a major role to play in this undertaking and are doing their utmost to do so, in particular to adapt their own mode of operation or to bring about behavioural changes.

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