GINNGER will ease the regeneration of neighbourhoods and built environments through the implementation of co-creation processes in heterogeneous stakeholders structures. This will facilitate the planification and implementation of actions in local environments, leading to a reduction of social, environmental, technological and economic risks thus to deliver healthy, affordable and sustainable built environments in EU. The project will create positive social impact in neighbourhoods by stablishing and validating the GINNGER co-creation methodology aimed at supporting decision-making procedures for regeneration actions. The co-creation methodology will rely on SSH innovations for social progress and the enhancement of public policies. The project will put special emphasis on the validation of the co-creation methodology in 6 pilots: P1. Langreo (ES), P2. Plovdiv (BG), P3. Massagno in (CH), P4. Murcia (ES), P5. Orte (IT) and P6. Paris (FR). Within these pilots, the co-creation methodology will support the implementation of 21 Regeneration Actions. Moreover, GINNGER will set-up a local figure called the Green Neighbourhood Facilitator, which will ensure that voices across pilots are heard and will lead the capacity buildings actions at local level. To complement the implementation of the regeneration actions from a technical perspective, GINNGER will develop and validate a digital toolkit to support the planification, implementation and operation of the regeneration actions. The digital toolkit will be composed by a total of 13 digital solutions grouped into four blocks dealing with Energy, Renovation, Resources and Mobility. As a result, GINNGER will set long-term strategies for the planification and implementation of cooperative models for neighbourhood regeneration, facilitated by the generation of 14 key exploitable results during the project. The implementation of such an ambitious project requires of a consortium of 24 partners from 8 EC member states.

Cities need support to implement their Sustainable Action Plans in line with the ambitious and stringent regulations towards a zero carbon Europe. The EYES HEARTS HANDS Urban Revolution (EHHUR) project will develop and test a co-designed methodological structure to support cities in their built environment transformation by using already existing good practices and complementing them with the New European Bauhaus and EU Missions principles. 7 Lighthouse demonstrators will be involved across EU and Associated countries (DK, EL, BE, PT, TK, HR, IT). EHHUR will tackle socio-economic and cultural challenges through relevant case studies facing social segregation, vulnerable residents (experiencing energy poverty), coal transition, depopulated and degraded historic centres. EHHUR relies on engagement and co-design as the “backbone” of its methodology, by deploying a set of tailored social innovation activities aimed not only to engage, but also to commit the participation of relevant urban players at multiple and multidisciplinary levels (technology co-design, co-financing, aesthetic co-creation). The EHHUR new integrated methodology will cover innovative i) engagement practices to transform citizens into active players of their future urban transformation and empower them in the decision-making process, ii) financing schemes involving local businesses and citizens, iii) digital and green technologies, iv) architectural design and materials to meet climate change and sustainability challenges while respecting heritage and cultural eco-systems, v) arts and creative co-design in third sector buildings and public areas. The diversified experiences of the LH demonstrators will provide a variety of good practices and guidelines for future replication. Future adopters will benefit from a DSS tool, supported by a capacity building programme, that offers the ideal mix of best technical solutions, optimal financing schemes and engagement tools and social innovation practice.