Out of concern for the health of the participants and the sense of responsibility for the city, the President of Gdynia Wojciech Szczurek decided to change the date of the conference. However, we do not give up the opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience. We encourage you to observe UrbanLab Gdynia in social media (Facebook).

We create a conference dedicated to the challenges facing modern cities.

The program includes, among others: debate on climate change adaptation, sustainable development and participation as elements of city development, presentation devoted to a new look at the social policy of cities in the area of ageing, panel on business development in cities of the future, workshops on open data.

A specific type of challenges facing cities are global trends (climate change, ageing, integration of immigrants, labour paradigm shift) that will not be directly affected by them – but will have to adapt to the changes that these trends will trigger. It is also crucial to think about them in the category of the “butterfly effect” – the consequences of global trends will spill over into all spheres of city/ city life, putting cities under the obligation to build solutions within practically all implemented policies. The second group consists of challenges being in the domain of individual solutions designed and possible to implement by local governments (quality of space, systemic solutions for socially excluded people, locally developed education system, reconciling development with heritage protection, economic development, city development based on the potential of districts, building local communities as a driving force for city development).

The idea of Urban Lab

UrbanLab, as a formula for action of a modern city, assumes interdisciplinarity, building a space for intersectoral / interdepartmental work, raising topics that exist “at the interface of sectors”.

The conference “Becoming the City – Global Challenges, Local Solutions” is organized as part of the project “Adapting the Concept of the Urban Lab in Gdynia” carried out under the Technical Assistance Operational Programme for 2014-2020 and co-financed by the Cohesion Fund.

Contact: urbanlab@lis.gdynia.pl.

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