Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Team
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid is part of the URBREATH project through the Centre for Innovation in Technology for Human Development (itdUPM). The itdUPM is an interdisciplinary centre that integrates people from the research field to address the complex challenges of sustainability and co-create practical solutions. itdUPM do this in collaboration with companies, public entities, civil society organisations and other educational institutions. The itdUPM in URBREATH plays the role of facilitator and orchestrator of the Madrid city cluster (Madrid City Council, Dark Matter Labs, Basurama and Traza), connecting the multi-stakeholder ecosystem, systematising knowledge, and evaluating the city's transformation processes. The itdUPM has a long history of collaboration with the Madrid City Council in projects such as the Madrid Deep Demonstration, LIFE-PACT, Clever Cities and the European Missions. In this sense, the UPM offers the city of Madrid all its scientific and technological knowledge, as well as integrating the approaches of just transition and citizen participation.
URBREATH represents for itdUPM a space for multi-level collaboration. At the local level, strengthening the links with the organisations that are part of the Madrid cluster; at the European level, a space for learning and exchange between the 9 cities that are part of the European Mission of Cities, as well as a space to expand the multi-stakeholder ecosystem with 37 aligned organisations seeking to generate changes in the ways we make cities, in how we promote multi-stakeholder collaboration and how the NBS can be the tool to improve the quality of life in our cities.
In addition to the objectives of the URBREATH project, itdUPM together with the Madrid cluster, seek to provide the city of Madrid with a strategy that combines biodiversity, social regeneration, and climate change adaptation in a single approach. We seek to unlock and demonstrate new organizational models for municipal and regional administrations to work with citizens and other urban stakeholders to quantify and communicate social and environmental benefits. Finally, itdUPM promotes the Spanish collaborative platform of Spanish cities in the framework of the European Mission Cities (citiES 2030) and is an active member of the NetZeroCities (NZC) consortium, therefore, we will seek to systematize the knowledge of the URBREATH project as a useful learning element for the Spanish cities of citiES 2030, as well as the NZC cities.