Activities

Together in Ljubljana, in early September 2025, our EU-URGE team turned streets, offices, markets, gardens, and riverbanks into sites of research. We met with local organizations and stakeholders, visited city offices, and explored everyday life in between. A city that proved to be more than Slovenia’s green capital; a living laboratory of climate neutrality in …

Ljubljana is part of the European Union’s Mission 100 to achieve climate neutrality by 2030 – sustainable mobility and transport are a key factor in this endeavour. In her presentation at SIEF2025, EU-urge project member Saša Poljak Istenič (Institute of Slovenian Ethnology / ZRC SAZU) explored the tension between Ljubljana’s measures for a car-free city …

Klagenfurt has a water problem, or rather, it has many, or none at all, depending on who, or what, you ask. Nestled between the Alps and the Adriatic, the city sits beside one of Austria’s most beloved lakes, fed by rivers and an Alpine aquifer that would be the envy of drier regions. And yet …

Warsaw makes a selected district the model for energy transformations as part of their efforts for climate neutrality (EU-Mission100). In their presentation at SIEF2025 Anna Ptak, Anna Horolets and Maria Małanicz-Przybylska of the University of Warsaw look at the district ethnographically, treating it as material, socio-cultural and institutional reality. Does the project overwrite or erase …

On May 9-11, 2024, EU-URGE team gathered in Warsaw to kick-start the project. The EU-URGE kick-off meeting included a Research Seminar “Urgency in urban climate policy: local receptions and translations” on May 9, in which invited guests Asta Vonderau, Valentina Gulin Zrnic, Panagiota Kotsila gave their lectures. Zofia Boni and Jan Franczewski spoke of their …