Urban Doers Community

Are you a social innovator, activist group, or neighbourhood initiative with an innovative project that could improve urban areas? Do you want to shape your project, build partnerships and networks, and grow your impact? Then, the Urban Doers Community is for you!

With access to training, coaching, webinars, and networking events and additional financial support, the Urban Doers Community can help you take the next steps forward and explore how to cooperate with research and innovation to realise innovative ideas. Plus, the Community gives you a chance to share your knowledge and experiences with likeminded people across Europe and potentially inspire change on a European scale. 

Twenty initiatives were included in the first edition of the Urban Doers Community.  

» Read more about the initiatives

What is the Urban Doers Community?

The Urban Doers Community is an initiative of the DUT Partnership that aims at supporting urban initiatives to connect to research and innovation and help them share their knowledge and experiences across Europe to make their innovative ideas work in urban areas.

Involvement in the communtiy includes monetary support as well as access to trainings, coaching, networking events, webinars and other support activities to help the initiatives develop their ideas and build up know how to engage more strongly in related research and innovation activities. The goal is to help urban doers to prepare next steps towards wider outreach, and to encourage them to participate in future joint research and innovation calls by the DUT Partnership. The Urban Doers Community runs for 12 months and is designed to help initiatives shape their ideas, build partnerships and networks, and grow their knowhow and impact.

Who is considered an Urban Doer?

    • Social innovators
    • Urban community associations
    • NGOs
    • Micro enterprises (<10 employees)
    • Neighbourhood initiatives
    • Social entrepreneurs
    • Activist groups
    • Civil society organisations
    • Designers and other actors from the cultural and creative sectors

What we offer you:

As an Urban Doer, the Urban Doers Community offers you a unique opportunity to shape the future of our urban environments. Here are some of the ways we can support you:

    • Capacity Building: Gain access to trainings, coaching, and webinars specifically designed to help urban practitioners and actors to engage in research and innovation. These resources will help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to engage in research and innovation projects and help you realise your innovative ideas.
    • Networking: Participate in a variety of networking events, including workshops, meetings, conferences, and AGORA activities. These events will connect you with like-minded individuals and organizations who share your passion for creating more liveable, sustainable cities and communities.
    • Dissemination: Share your knowledge and experiences with a wider audience through webinars and other dissemination activities. This is an opportunity to showcase your project and inspire others to take action in their own urban environments.
    • Support: Service contract as contributing co-author for Urban Doers publication and travel budget for participation in onsite events.

 

What do we expect from you:

As an Urban Doer, we expect you to:

    • Attend an obligatory on-site kick-off meeting and closure meeting with all other Urban Doers.
    • Develop a concept paper (5-10 pages) focused on the strategic development, upscaling options of your project/initiative, dissemination of good practices and lessons learned as well as opportunities for potential cooperation with other institutions in the frame of DUT transnational research and innovation calls (on the basis of a service contract).
    • Attend a minimum of three on-site events (including kick-off & closure) and a few additional online events during the Community period.

Contact point:

If you have questions , please contact the Urban Doers Community contact point:

Lisa Hudson-Bushard
Lisa.Hudson-Bushart[@]dutpartnership.eu