Bridging European Urban Transformations. Workshop Series 2016-2018. Technical Report

Resumen

A digest that summarises the activities of a collaborative workshop series that took place between 2016 and 2018 in Brussels.While there were considerable uncertainties in the research landscape with regards to future connections within the EU, even before the results of the Brexit referendum became known, in the spirit of building bridges a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 15 June 2016 – just a week before the vote took place - between the University of Oxford, Urban Transformations ESRC Programme and Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (BCUS) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). The MoU, besides pledging close collaboration between the two institutions, also launched a series of workshops, ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations’, lasting from June 2016 to February 2018.