The Urban Academy is contributing to the transition to sustainable cities, with Ghent as a living laboratory. The Urban Academy was established as a platform for collaboration on complex urban sustainability issues. Through continuous proximity in the Ghent context, we can establish links between the local situation, networks, partnerships and institutional arrangements, and we can make systemic change a reality, starting at the local level. For each issue, an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary team is formed of academic actors (students, lecturers and/or researchers from Ghent University and other higher education institutions) and urban actors (policy officers, employees of Ghent University, urban institutions and organisations, citizen collectives and/or companies). Research questions are formulated, cases are selected and activities are organised in consultation.

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