Urban Lunch Talk #38 – Engaging Citizens in Climate Action
March 27th, 2025
“There are two types of resilience: adapting (a short-term reaction to shock) and a very important one, the inherent resilience. You can’t build long-term resilience without community engagement.”
Bogna Gawrońska-Nowak Gawronska-Nowak
(Obserwatorium Polityki Miejskiej i Regionalnej IRMiR)
CREST partnered with DUT – Driving Urban Transition for the 38th episode of the Urban Lunch Talk, a brilliant webinar series to discuss and synthesize cross-cutting research and innovation, with diverse stakeholders across Europe and beyond.
In this episode the topic was dedicated to citizen support and engagement in impactful climate actions. In urban contexts, this applies for example for municipal offers, living labs, as well as research and innovation projects. How can we design, communicate about and implement climate measures and projects so that they consider local needs, meet acceptance and engage citizens? How can projects deal with resistance and address it? And what is needed to help a project leave a lasting and positive impact? Get the answers from our panel of experts!
Among the guests, Bogna Gawronska Nowak (Associate Professor, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Warsaw, and Cracow University of Economics), that presented the Citizen Engagement Methodology in CREST.
The other panelists:
- Ania Sokołowska, Co-Founder, PLAN ZERO and Climate Neutral Cities Advisor at Eurocities for NetZeroCities
- Isabel Ruiz Mallén, Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
- Jan Schwarz, Project Manager, Climate Alliance
More info on the event and the recording of the webinar (1 hour sharp) on DUT website. Or access directly to the recording of the webinar on YouTube.
If you are interested in the previous webinars, you can see the recordings on DUT Youtube Channel and JPI Urban Europe Channel.
