Central European Urban RESiliency

The mission of the CEURES project led by the Urban Development Association is to contribute to the resilience of Central European cities by finding best practices and sharing knowledge between urban planners, municipalities and young professionals. The consortium is composed of the Urban Development Association (HU), University of Hradec Kralove (CZ), Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences (PL), the Forum Regional Development Center (SK) and the PONTIBUS EGTC (SK-HU).

The CEURES project gathers the knowledge and best practices of settlement resilience born in recent years but scattered in the V4 countries. In the framework of the project, in order to achieve the greatest impact, the following will be implemented:

• Finding best practices in each V4 country
• Professional workshops
• Freely accessible selection of best practices
• Freely accessible, multilingual, modular e-learning course material providing practical knowledge
• Pilot training
• Central European Urban Resilience Handbook, which is freely accessible

 

THE URBAN RESILIENCE EXPLORED SO FAR IN THE CEURES PROJECT ARE GOOD PRACTICES

Czech Republic

Towns´ Pathways to Urban Resilience and Self-sufficiency
EcoMart: A Sustainable Supermarket Solution Using Wood Marcel Pikhart
Ecological Village Hostětín

Poland

Urban Meadows for an Ecological & Sustainable Urbanism
Multicultural lessons: Learning about the beauty of difference and similarity beyond boundaries. A project run by the Multicultural Center in Warsaw
Urban Transit Lab for Voices of Sustainable Mobility
Narew River Clean up in Łomża as a Local Ecological Civic Initiative

Hungary

Rain gardens as examples of community building and sustainable urban development in Kecskemét, Hungary
Piroska commando food and medicine delivery for elderly people during the COVID pandemic
Digitalization of in-kind social services
Energy independence at settlement level

Slovakia

Pandemic Grant Program of Novartis to Support Non-Covid Healthcare for Patients in Slovakia
Rain garden to divert rainwater from road in Šamorín
Volunteer-based cooperation to integrate war refugees in Banská Štiavnica
First-minute help for war refugees in Šamorín
Resistant suburbs – taking climate action

Grant amount: EUR 36,500.

The Settlement Development Association offers the CEURES project to the memory of our founding member and former president, Pál Lénárd, who died on November 30, 2023 at the age of 89.

The project is co-financed by the governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia from Visegrad Grants of the International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the Visegrad Fund is to promote ideas for sustainable Central European regional cooperation.