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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

Urban Data Platform

    Description
    Intro

    The Urban Data Platform is a joint initiative of REGIO and JRC to provide knowledge on the status and trends of European Urban Areas.<br />
    About 60 indicators are available for about 800 urban areas, following different level of aggregation (Cities, Metro-Region, and Functional Urban Areas)

    Objective of the practice

    Integration of environmental, social, economic indicators.<br />
    Open platform for the visualisation and dissemination of indicators. Urban areas can be compared and benchmarked.

    Partners
    Implementer: European Commission Beneficiary/Users: Policy-makers, local authorities, citizens
    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    Direct implementation of the European Commission

    Results/Outputs/Impacts
    Indicators have been made available to European authorities and local stakeholders. Results are: the report on the State of the European Cities and other analytical documents at European level.
    Enabling factors and constraints
    Open and free platform. Comparability.
    Sustainability and replicability
    The Urban Data Platform could be replicated in e.g. the Mediterranean area or Africa.
    Conclusions

    Availability of data ad indicators for the monitoring of urban areas vs. the achievement of SDG goals.

    Other sources of information
    N/A
    Resources
    Staff / Technical expertise
    Joint initiative of DG REGIO and the Joint Research Centre (JRC).
    No progress reports have been submitted. Please sign in and click here to submit one.
    False
    Action Network
    SDG Good Practices First Call
    This initiative does not yet fulfil the SMART criteria.
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    Timeline
    01 January 2015 (start date)
    31 December 2020 (date of completion)
    Entity
    European Commission, SG E2
    SDGs
    Region
    1. Europe
    Geographical coverage
    Functional Urban Areas, Metropolitan Region, Cities
    Website/More information
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    Countries
    European Commission
    European Commission
    Contact Information

    Lucian Parvulescu, Policy Officer