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NEWSLETTER #1 l AUGUST 2021
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Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, eMOTIONAL Cities is a 48-month project, with a total budget of nearly 5 million Euros, that is designed to fully characterise the intensity and complexity of urban health challenges and inequalities Read More.
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The eMOTIONAL Cities ambition is to provide accurate and neuroscience-based guidance on urban planning in order to achieve healthier, sustainable and more inclusive communities for present and future generations. Our approach aims at joining various scientific areas of research – natural, medical and social sciences, aspire highly relevant outcomes for society, expects to bring challenging questions for researchers, and will contribute to a paradigm shift in urban planning practice, education and policy.
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The eMOTIONAL Cities research focusing on the signals triggered in our neurobiological architecture, responsible for emotions and decisions, while humans interact with the urban environment, will shed light on how to improve population health, physical and/or mental Read More.
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The eMOTIONAL Cities is led by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon and co-coordinated by Lisbon School of Medicine, joined by Michigan State University, Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, Climateflux, Starlab, NeuroGears, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Tallinna Tehnikaulikool, EarthPulse, Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação and University of Tartu.
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eMOTIONAL Cities is divided into nine work packages (WP) perform specific tasks through the project,
as described below:
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• Provide administrative and financial project
management.
• Monitor the progress of activities
and the achievement of deliverables and milestones.
• Organise and provide the reports of annual
consortium meetings.
• Build bridges of communication within
the consortium and with stakeholders/end-user’s
knowledge.
• Ensure timely and adequate reporting
to the European Commission.
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• Review and compile existing research
and scholarship on the use of neuroscience
to understand the relationships between urban
environments and health.
• Create the conceptual framework and overarching
research questions.
• Articulate the final research framework used
in study.
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• Specify, develop and deploy a spatial data
infrastructure for hosting geospatial data, following
geospatial and web standards.
• Develop standards and recommendations
for geospatial neuroscience data.
• Publish geospatial data and metadata.
• Minimize technical debt by adopting or extending
existing mature Free and Open Source software.
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• Deploy a methodology for physical and mental
urban health analysis.
• Physical environment – urban form/patterns
and urban health and well-being.
• Socioeconomic environment – urban determinants
for/in urban health and well-being.
• Set up and analysis of a population cohort upon
health indicators, ageing and gender and mapping
of its associated spatial patterns/process for health
and well-being.
• Mapping of emotions triggered by the built
environment.
• A toolbox of spatial analysis and mapping
for health and well-being.
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• Specify the behavioral paradigms
and neuropsychometrics to be used, taking
into account both qualitative and quantitative
techniques.
• Use virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR)
infrastructure to study the influence of urban
environments in laboratory experiments.
• Collect neurobiological signals reflecting cognitive
and emotional processing elicited by relevant
environmental factors during task performance
in a controlled lab environment.
• Perform urban outdoor experiments and collect
brain signals with wearable EEG, eye-tracking data
and other relevant physiological signals.
• Identify if vulnerable groups and gender-related
aspects are relevant for urban health design
or interventions.
• Conduct a clinical study in patients with mild
cognitive impairment to obtain evidence that urban
planning and design can have an impact
on this vulnerable group.
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• Data Fusion between WP4 and WP5 data sets
and other urban health, perception and well-being
datasets in order to identify as well as quantify
the impact of different urban environment
categories on people’s physical and mental health:
• Flag and measure different types of urban
artefacts based on their impact on people’s
physical and mental health in relation to age,
gender and vulnerable groups.
• Measure the impact of urban environment
on cognitive, emotional and social behavior.
• Create a set of eMOTIONAL indicators on urban
health.
• Designing and implementing a baseline scenario
of eMOTIONAL Cities.
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• • Design and formulate an integrated framework
for simulation environment.
• Develop a metamodelling methodology for urban
environment – mental health representation.
• Develop a scenario discovery optimization
methodology.
• Showcase the developed scenario discovery
method in selected urban case-studies.
• Identify, for the selected case-studies, particular
policy related robust evidence for improved urban
health.
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• Develop and update a Dissemination
and Communication Plan (DCP) which will ensure
effective communication within and outside
the project.
• Develop dissemination and communication
materials and digital tools to engage with the
target groups identified by the project.
• Organise dissemination events and contribute
to the continuous engagement of stakeholders,
maximising the impact of the project.
• Ensure effective exploitation and business
development of the project results.
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• Set out the 'ethics requirements' that the project
must follow.
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To communicate and disseminate the outcomes effectively, communication needs to be tailored to the specific needs and communication culture of the different target groups relevant for eMOTIONAL Cities. The project has identified the target groups listed below, which can maximize the impact of eMOTIONAL Cities outcomes.
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Through specific outdoor experiments eMOTIONAL Cities will invite adult volunteers to perform trajectories in the urban environment as if moving through a regular working day. During their interactions with the environment, spatial, environmental, behavioral, physiological and neurobiological data will be collected. These outdoor experiments will be carried out in four sites Copenhagen, Lisbon, London, and Lansing, Michigan.
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Webinar – Visual Identity | September, 7th @ 14:00 (Lisbon time)
eMOTIONAL Cities Annual Meeting | November
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Open co-design| WORKSHOP | June 3rd | Participation
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European Cluster for Urban Health | LAUNCH EVENT | May 20th & 21st | Participation
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eMOTIONAL Cities | LAUNCH EVENT | April 13th | Organization
Read More
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eMOTIONAL Cities | KICK-OFF MEETING | April 8th & 9th | Organization
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Environmental Sensors | WORKSHOP | March 12th | Co-organization
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The project website was launched in April 2021 and is now live and accessible to the public. For our upcoming events and workshops, you can find more details, such as dates, location and duration on our website. All public documents will be principally disseminated through the project website. eMOTIONAL Cities will launch its introductory video in the coming months via website.
https://emotionalcities-h2020.eu/
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Article published on 2nd November 2020 on the SMARTCITIES Magazine. Click to read
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement nº 945307. The document represents the view of the author only and is his/her sole responsibility: it cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission. The European Commission does not accept responsibility for the use that may be made of the information it contains.
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