Stadt der kurzen Wege

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The Innovation Booster Future Urban Society seeks and promotes radical ideas from research and real-world practice in order to further disseminate or strengthen the impact of the most promising social innovations for climate-friendly housing, mobility and nutrition.Please note the guidelines, attached as a document called ‘EN - Idea Submission Guidelines’.How might we...... ensure that the needs of daily life are met for many people within a manageable radius?... create an “old town atmosphere” in new development areas and agglomeration communities? ... create short distances between local producers and local consumers?... provide a diverse range of leisure and shopping facilities in the neighborhoods and suitable villages?... encourage people to travel short distances by foot or bike and to make more use of leisure and shopping facilities in the neighborhoods?... show employees the advantages of short commuting distances?... ensure that short distances to work, shopping and leisure facilities play a more important role when choosing a place to live?... find out where and when it makes sense to bring services to the people instead of the people to the services?Switzerland is growing and in many central locations it has become difficult to find a suitable and affordable home. How can we now ensure that there will soon be more good living space and that at the same time, per capita space and energy consumption will decrease?In this FUS Challenge, we look at one possible answer - the social innovation of the City of short Distances. Whether in the 10-minute neighborhood, 15-minute city or Superblock variants, the guiding principle of the city of short distances is that everything we need in our daily lives can be reached by foot or by bike in the shortest possible time. This dense, functional mix of the city stands for a high quality of life and climate-friendly mobility. The City of Short Distances has great potential to reduce the distances traveled in traffic and shift the modal split towards more environmentally friendly means of transport. This could save traffic space, energy and greenhouse gas emissions as well as many other resources. As a positive side effect, such a City of Short Distances also has a positive impact on people's health.Numerous cities have set themselves the goal of becoming Cities of Short Distances. The past often stands in the way: in recent decades, for example, many large shopping centers have been built on the outskirts of the city. Village and neighborhood stores have disappeared. For many people, shopping in their immediate living environment is no longer possible, especially in urban areas. The same applies to leisure facilities and restaurants, which are concentrated in the core cities and are disappearing in rural areas. The spatial planning separation of working and living has also led to considerable forced mobility. In 1960, Swiss cities had an average of 0.5 employees per inhabitant. Since then, spatial planning has allowed for more jobs than living space, and today the ratio is usually 1:1. Living space is becoming scarcer, prices are rising and people are moving from the centers to the surrounding areas. The further consequence: full trains and traffic jams.The FUS challenge City of Short Distances is promoting answers to the overarching FUS question: How will we live in urban Switzerland in the future?We are looking for radical ideas to make the City of Short Distances a reality in many places.In an open innovation process, we foster the exchange between the interested public and those responsible from the areas of (urban) research, planning authorities, politics, real estate and investment. The Canton of Basel-Stadt is available as a point of contact and provides its own expertise and data. For suitable projects, the canton provides support in the search for concrete test opportunities.Join in and help to spread the social innovation of the City of Short Distances and secure financial and methodological support as well as valuable contacts for further steps in an interdisciplinary team!What are we looking for?We are looking for radical ideas to make the most promising social innovations viable for the majority - with the involvement of civil society, business, administration and/or politics. Are you working on relevant offers, services, organizational forms, business and impact models, communication and intervention strategies or strategic experiments? We facilitate the implementation of feasibility, user or market studies or the development of models and prototypes that help to demonstrate and test potential solutions.We look forward to finding solutions that will increase and multiply the contribution of social innovations to a climate-friendly and liveable urban society of the future. Who can apply?In accordance with Innosuisse's guidelines, only mixed teams with members from at least one research and one implementing partner can apply. The events in the Challenge Stage allow individual players to find each other. If a project team lacks a research partner, we can try to help out. Contact matchmaking@futureurbansociety.ch for this or for other networking. We can only award funding to legal entities - cooperatives, associations, foundations, companies, universities, cities, etc. - from Switzerland. The use and distribution of financial resources in the sponsored teams is carried out independently, but is accountable.The research partners include university research institutes, non-commercial research centers outside the university sector, research institutes of the departments with their own research projects and federal research institutes. Implementation partners are all private and public actors who can put ideas into practice or at least have a share in doing so.How can the funds be used?The funding can be used for feasibility, utilization or market studies. Where possible and appropriate, the development of models and prototypes to illustrate and test solutions is financed. The funds can be used flexibly for specific purposes, e.g. to pay salaries, purchase equipment and materials, observation and interview research, travel expenses, organization of roundtables, workshops, etc.A part of the funds is reserved for the content-related and methodological support of experts in the respective fields.What needs to be submitted?We are currently working on a submission kit. This will include a template, all the questions to be answered and everything else about the procedure. Follow this Open Call and you will be automatically informed when we publish the kit.Anyone who has taken part in one of our Open Innovation events or calls is eligible for funding. We are still fine-tuning the dates. The following are already public:We are planning further events and calls. They will be announced promptly on our website and by newsletter.You can find more details on how to participate on the website https://www.futureurbansociety.ch.If you have any questions, please check the FAQ first. If you still have questions after that, please contact us at info@futureurbansociety.ch

Challenge Metadata

Challenge Name: Stadt der kurzen Wege
Date: 12/13/2024 12:47:02 PM
Administrators:
- Anaïs Sägesser |
- Mirko Fischli |
- Björn Müller

Challenge Description

The Innovation Booster Future Urban Society seeks and promotes radical ideas from research and real-world practice in order to further disseminate or strengthen the impact of the most promising social innovations for climate-friendly housing, mobility and nutrition.

Please note the guidelines, attached as a document called ‘EN - Idea Submission Guidelines’.

How might we...

... ensure that the needs of daily life are met for many people within a manageable radius?
... create an “old town atmosphere” in new development areas and agglomeration communities?
... create short distances between local producers and local consumers?
... provide a diverse range of leisure and shopping facilities in the neighborhoods and suitable villages?
... encourage people to travel short distances by foot or bike and to make more use of leisure and shopping facilities in the neighborhoods?
... show employees the advantages of short commuting distances?
... ensure that short distances to work, shopping and leisure facilities play a more important role when choosing a place to live?
... find out where and when it makes sense to bring services to the people instead of the people to the services?

Switzerland is growing and in many central locations it has become difficult to find a suitable and affordable home. How can we now ensure that there will soon be more good living space and that at the same time, per capita space and energy consumption will decrease?

In this FUS Challenge, we look at one possible answer - the social innovation of the City of short Distances. Whether in the 10-minute neighborhood, 15-minute city or Superblock variants, the guiding principle of the city of short distances is that everything we need in our daily lives can be reached by foot or by bike in the shortest possible time. This dense, functional mix of the city stands for a high quality of life and climate-friendly mobility. The City of Short Distances has great potential to reduce the distances traveled in traffic and shift the modal split towards more environmentally friendly means of transport. This could save traffic space, energy and greenhouse gas emissions as well as many other resources. As a positive side effect, such a City of Short Distances also has a positive impact on people's health.

Numerous cities have set themselves the goal of becoming Cities of Short Distances. The past often stands in the way: in recent decades, for example, many large shopping centers have been built on the outskirts of the city. Village and neighborhood stores have disappeared. For many people, shopping in their immediate living environment is no longer possible, especially in urban areas. The same applies to leisure facilities and restaurants, which are concentrated in the core cities and are disappearing in rural areas. The spatial planning separation of working and living has also led to considerable forced mobility. In 1960, Swiss cities had an average of 0.5 employees per inhabitant. Since then, spatial planning has allowed for more jobs than living space, and today the ratio is usually 1:1. Living space is becoming scarcer, prices are rising and people are moving from the centers to the surrounding areas. The further consequence: full trains and traffic jams.

The FUS challenge City of Short Distances is promoting answers to the overarching FUS question: How will we live in urban Switzerland in the future?

We are looking for radical ideas to make the City of Short Distances a reality in many places.

In an open innovation process, we foster the exchange between the interested public and those responsible from the areas of (urban) research, planning authorities, politics, real estate and investment. The Canton of Basel-Stadt is available as a point of contact and provides its own expertise and data. For suitable projects, the canton provides support in the search for concrete test opportunities.

Join in and help to spread the social innovation of the City of Short Distances and secure financial and methodological support as well as valuable contacts for further steps in an interdisciplinary team!

What are we looking for?

We are looking for radical ideas to make the most promising social innovations viable for the majority - with the involvement of civil society, business, administration and/or politics. Are you working on relevant offers, services, organizational forms, business and impact models, communication and intervention strategies or strategic experiments?

We facilitate the implementation of feasibility, user or market studies or the development of models and prototypes that help to demonstrate and test potential solutions.

We look forward to finding solutions that will increase and multiply the contribution of social innovations to a climate-friendly and liveable urban society of the future.

Who can apply?

In accordance with Innosuisse's guidelines, only mixed teams with members from at least one research and one implementing partner can apply. The events in the Challenge Stage allow individual players to find each other. If a project team lacks a research partner, we can try to help out. Contact matchmaking@futureurbansociety.ch for this or for other networking.

We can only award funding to legal entities - cooperatives, associations, foundations, companies, universities, cities, etc. - from Switzerland.

The use and distribution of financial resources in the sponsored teams is carried out independently, but is accountable.

The research partners include university research institutes, non-commercial research centers outside the university sector, research institutes of the departments with their own research projects and federal research institutes.

Implementation partners are all private and public actors who can put ideas into practice or at least have a share in doing so.

How can the funds be used?

The funding can be used for feasibility, utilization or market studies. Where possible and appropriate, the development of models and prototypes to illustrate and test solutions is financed. The funds can be used flexibly for specific purposes, e.g. to pay salaries, purchase equipment and materials, observation and interview research, travel expenses, organization of roundtables, workshops, etc.

A part of the funds is reserved for the content-related and methodological support of experts in the respective fields.

What needs to be submitted?

We are currently working on a submission kit. This will include a template, all the questions to be answered and everything else about the procedure. Follow this Open Call and you will be automatically informed when we publish the kit.

Anyone who has taken part in one of our Open Innovation events or calls is eligible for funding.

We are still fine-tuning the dates. The following are already public:

We are planning further events and calls. They will be announced promptly on our website and by newsletter.

You can find more details on how to participate on the website https://www.futureurbansociety.ch.

If you have any questions, please check the FAQ first. If you still have questions after that, please contact us at info@futureurbansociety.ch