UNIC Centre for City Futures


A transnational living laboratory for societal impact - We strive for transformations with our cities and communities.

The UNIC Centre for City Futures (CCF) is a change agency for University and City to collaboratively foster transformative urban innovation.

Our mission is to understand complex societal phenomena and to envision attractive city futures that overcome urban challenges. Our hub enables transdisciplinary city-engaged research, innovation and co-creation across the UNIC Univer-City alliance.


The Founding Charter


All ten of our Cities are signatories to our Founding Charter. This guides our common purpose and joint ambition to increase transdisciplinary collaboration and engagement around city-needs based challenges and opportunities.


The UNIC Centre for City Futures operates the UNIC CityLabs as a transnational living laboratory that responds to these challenges and opportunities, driving productive interactions and facilitating co-creation for transformative innovation.


Operating in genuine real-world settings with our Cities, our CityLabs bridge the gap between theory and practice. They bring people together from different backgrounds to identify needs and challenges, envision preferable futures, and to develop, test and refine solutions.



Read more from our Founding Charter [PDF, 1mb]

Our unique infrastructure provides a model for learning and research to serve society.
It is powered by 10 interconnected units with local transformation-making focuses.
Together they form a large-scale transnational living laboratory for European impact.


City Futures Roadmaps

Together with our cities and stakeholders we identify city challenges and integrate them into research and learning.
Partnerships

We build strategic partnerships and engage with cities, communities, the private sector, other organizations, and citizens to drive meaningful societal change.
UNIC CityLabs

We specialize in co-creation practices that connect academic expertise with societal actors, turning cities into living laboratories tackling urban challenges.

LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS

Learn more about the Centre's work by participating in one of our forthcoming events. Contribute your insights, ideas, and solutions, and find ways to collaborate with us:

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A Just Transition for Cities – Mandate, Materiality, Morality and Moxi...

With support from the UNIC4ER Seed Fund, an interdisciplinary collaboration between colleagues...

28 Feb 2024 - 29 Feb 2024

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VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: “New Research Approaches to the Crossroads of Reli...

Launch of the new European Research Network for Religion, Society and Culture UNIC-RESCUe,

11 Dec 2023 - 12 Dec 2023

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Gender and equality from an institutional perspective. Strategies and ...

UNIC CityLabs is organizing an online event on the topic of gender and equality. The event is ...

06 Jun 2023 - 06 Jun 2023

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Social Inclusion and Living in Community for Persons with Intellectual...

A Virtual Meeting Platform that discusses the different aspects of deinstitutionalization and ...

25 May 2023 - 25 May 2023

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Towards more Societal Engagement & Inclusion in Medical Practices

This special event brings together medical faculties across the UNIC alliance to talk public h...

16 May 2023 - 16 May 2023

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Exploring the connection between food and migration. Innovations and C...

UNIC CityLabs is organizing an online event on the topic of Exploring the connection between f...

24 May 2023 - 24 May 2023

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Contact the Centre for City Futures

Join us in shaping the future of cities towards more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient!

The UNIC Centre for City Futures serves as the intermediary between UNIC universities, cities, and organizations
interested in societal improvement. Our Local Directors, Co-Creation Specialists, and Engaged Research Officers
help create partnerships able to strive for societal improvement.

With their help you can connect cities’ needs into learning and research and enrich and improve cities and communities
with the contributions of researchers, teachers, students, and citizens.

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