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Slovenian Research Agency becomes full member of the JPI Urban Europe

The Governing Board of the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe has in July 2015 confirmed ARRS as the new full member of the JPI Urban Europe.

JPI Urban Europe is one of ten EUs' Joint Programming Initiatives – JPIs addressing ten major societal challenges.

The JPI Urban Europe acts at the intersections of numerous research fields – from societal, social, urbanistic and space-related, architectural and construction-related to biodiversity-related all connected with modes of mobile, sustainable and smart perspectives. It tackles all the research questions related with the quality of life, being in the urban or suburban area or even rural areas that share a border with the urbanised centres.

The JPI Urban Europe has 13 full members and 7 members with the status of observer.

For more information on JPI Urban Europe please visit http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/.