DUT - Driving Urban Transitions

Based on more than 10 years of JPI Urban Europe experience, DUT aims to address the challenges of urban transition and establish a renowned research and innovation platform, involving regional, municipal and local communities, to support cities in becoming more sustainable, inclusive and liveable.

This co-funded partnership brings together 67 organizations from 28 countries and involves national science and technology research support agencies and bodies responsible for regional/urban development policies, with a view to funding transnational urban transition projects around three strategic axes of the DUT (the TP, Transition Pathways):

TP Positive Energy Neighbourhoods: optimizes the local energy system by implementing energy efficiency, flexibility and local energy generation from renewable sources. The aim is to promote (urban) energy transition and climate neutrality by integrating them into urban planning processes.
TP City 15-Minutes: rethinks the existing mobility system and urban morphology to encourage sustainable mobility choices, redistribute urban space and reorganize daily activities to make cities more climate-neutral, liveable and inclusive.
TP Urban Circular Economies: promotes the design of urban places characterized by regenerative urbanism, such as green, inclusive and livable communities and neighbourhoods that are sustained by circular urban economies and resource flows.

The FCT, the CCDRC - Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro, the CCDRN - Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte, the DGEG - Direção-Geral de Energia e Geologia and the DGT - Direção-Geral do Território, are the Portuguese organizations that make up the DUT.