27 June
13:30-15:00
Networking Events
Want to meet other sustainable urbanization activists? Emerging champions of public sanitation? Mobility experts developing innovative solutions to gridlock? Host a Networking event at WUF11 in Katowice!
The World Urban Forum (WUF) offers the opportunity to make global connections with other professionals, to identify approaches to domesticating the New Urban Agenda as part of the decade of action to accelerate progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Networking Events
27 June
13:30-15:00
Unleashing the transformational potential of the New Leipzig Charter
27 June
13:30-15:00
SDGs Localization on sub-national-level in the lagged regions within the Egyptian Context: The Initiative "Decent Life" and Upper Egypt Local Development Program as an example
27 June
13:30-15:00
Making Sense of the SDGs in Cities: Sustainable Cities SDG Sensemaking Tool workshop, Finland case
27 June
13:30-15:00
Renewal of Urban Planning for a Better Urban Future
27 June
13:30-15:00
Urban Movements - Network for Building Good Cities
27 June
13:30-15:00
The implementation of the Spanish Urban Agenda: The Action Plan of the Central Administration
27 June
13:30-15:00
Implementation of National Urban Policy(NUP) with smart city strategies: country experiences and innovative demonstration projects
27 June
13:30-15:00
Visioning platform for a Global Action Plan to tackle the Slum Challenge
27 June
13:30-15:00
Reshaping Urban Development Policies in Growing Economies - The role of national and regional planning in inducing urban transformation
27 June
13:30-15:00
Want to build a Cities4Children Alliance in your city or country? Come find out how
27 June
13:30-15:00
Sharing experience on wars and Health pandemic disruption on National Urban Policy formulation process in selected countries: Haiti, Mali, DRC, Cameroon and Guinea
27 June
13:30-15:00
Cities Taking a Seat at the Global Table: An Urgent Task
27 June
13:30-15:00
Better cities are possible: responding to the twin urban crises of climate change and inequality
27 June
13:30-15:00
Fostering Urban Resilience through Preparedness Activities: Lessons from Southern Africa
27 June
13:30-15:00
A Call to Action on Sustainable Urbanisation across the Commonwealth
27 June
13:30-15:00
Cites+Culture+Climate: A Get-Together for Green Culture, Heritage and Creative Cities
27 June
13:30-15:00
How can urban-rural partnerships promote Europe's green transition?
27 June
13:30-15:00
Increasing ambition to decarbonise transport: back to basics
27 June
13:30-15:00
Co-transforming Cities: The Power of Synergy in Creating an Inclusive, Sustainable, and Resilient Urban Future
27 June
16:00-17:30
Mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda in the National Urban Policy through participation: the ODUS in Brazil
27 June
16:00-17:30
Showcase of Innovative Start-ups Powered by Rawa.ink
27 June
16:00-17:30
UNICEF and Local Authorities Partnership in Response to Ukraine Refugee Crisis
27 June
16:00-17:30
Shocks and the City: Adapting Urban Policies to Uncertainty
27 June
16:00-17:30
Unlocking affordable housing markets through a data revolution
27 June
16:00-17:30
International urban and regional cooperation to rethink sustainable urban and innovative models for a greener and better future
27 June
16:00-17:30
City region food systems: strengthening resilience against multiple shocks and crises
27 June
16:00-17:30
Enhancing city’s capacity in effective implementation of SDGs and NUA through Shanghai Award and Shanghai Index
27 June
16:00-17:30
Exploring the economic value of public spaces. Development banks initiatives for financial sustainability and economic resilience
27 June
16:00-17:30
Climate Change and the Role of Cities Redux
27 June
16:00-17:30
Citizen-led Open Data for Participatory Urban Governance: Experiences from Germany, India and the Republic of Korea
27 June
16:00-17:30
Green future of cities
27 June
16:00-17:30
Reconnecting with Nature - Landscape architects at the forefront of the sustainable and creative urban transformation”
27 June
16:00-17:30
Using data for inclusive environmental action
27 June
16:00-17:30
From local to global: youth participation in implementing SDGs
27 June
16:00-17:30
Planning for the Green, Healthy Cities of the Future
27 June
16:00-17:30
Building Urban Resilience: Climate-Sensitive Planning in Israel and the United States
27 June
16:00-17:30
Regional perspective of urban talks
27 June
16:00-17:30
Public Spaces for All: Flipping the script on universal design, inclusion and accessibility
27 June
16:00-17:30
How city leaders and youth are making climate neutrality a reality in their territories
28 June
12:30-14:00
About the ingredients in the secret sauce of smart cities: Learning from urban innovation and co-creation practices
28 June
12:30-14:00
From the Urban planning and governance to the challenges of recovering Ukrainian cities and territories
28 June
12:30-14:00
Localised durable solutions in conflict-induced displacement contexts - lessons learned from different country contexts
28 June
12:30-14:00
Displacement, placemaking and wellbeing: lessons from architectural and social science approaches
28 June
12:30-14:00
Building back better cities with Circular Jobs
28 June
12:30-14:00
Toward New UN Habitat Stakeholder Engagement
28 June
12:30-14:00
Localising the NDCs in cities and regions
28 June
12:30-14:00
Sustainable healthcare/hospitals (panel and report release)
28 June
12:30-14:00
Towards achieving the SDGs and realizing the NUA through the Spatial planning platform.-Transforming the Path to Resilient Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development -
28 June
12:30-14:00
Sustainable new urban communities that are more resilient to climate change
28 June
12:30-14:00
Mayors Delivering Democracy
28 June
12:30-14:00
Implementing the harmonised Global urban Monitoring Framework as an SDG-NUA and VLR monitoring tool
28 June
12:30-14:00
Connecting Local to Global: Networking Urban Youth Councils
28 June
12:30-14:00
Achieving coherent financing of sustainable urban development at various territorial scales
28 June
12:30-14:00
Making Green Planning Happen
28 June
12:30-14:00
Understanding, Planning and Transforming Cities for a Better Urban Future - Integrated spatial planning in mountain cities
28 June
12:30-14:00
Disaster Risk Reduction new dimensions: COVID-19 Preparedness at local level
28 June
12:30-14:00
Beating the Heat: Unleashing Sustainable Urban Cooling Solutions
28 June
12:30-14:00
Financing Urban Climate Adaptation
28 June
12:30-14:00
For a better and greener Urban Future: Pakistan-Korea Collaboration for Urban Revitalization and GHG emission reduction
28 June
14:30-16:00
Sustainable development from the perspective of public green spaces planning and usage in the cities of São Paulo (Brazil) and Medellín (Colombia)
28 June
14:30-16:00
Economic Migrants and Refugees in Polish Cities – The Case of Krakow
28 June
14:30-16:00
Urban Profiling and Recovery in Ukraine Across the HPD Nexus
28 June
14:30-16:00
Innovative land-based finance solutions for service delivery, reconstruction and rebuilding the social contract in fragile contexts
28 June
14:30-16:00
Forum Liderów PPP
28 June
14:30-16:00
Shifting towards low-emissions and resilient buildings in the Mediterranean region
28 June
14:30-16:00
Circularity and resource efficiency in the housing sector. Tools and case studies to strengthen the path towards sustainability.
28 June
14:30-16:00
Fostering urban data observatories as local level resilience centres
28 June
14:30-16:00
Preventions of Single Use Plastics towards sustainable consumption.
28 June
14:30-16:00
AI and Cities : guidelines for an ethical use of AI by local authorities
28 June
14:30-16:00
African Networking Event: achieve Agenda 2063 by inclusive and sustainable urban / territorial planning
28 June
14:30-16:00
How to achieve sustainable, inclusive and participatory urban development? Learnings from the experience of African and European cities
28 June
14:30-16:00
Scaling-up financing for sustainable urban infrastructure – experiences from the UNECE region
28 June
14:30-16:00
National Urban Policies for transformative power of Cities
28 June
14:30-16:00
Tomorrow’s Habitat, for a better urban future
28 June
14:30-16:00
Peer learning between cities on Urban Innovation
28 June
14:30-16:00
New Urban Agenda and European Urban Agenda, how to articulate scales for the implementation of the SDGs?
28 June
14:30-16:00
Participatory budgeting to promote cities in harmony and build a future better urban
28 June
14:30-16:00
Roundtable on city transformation among socialist and post-socialist countries in the Pandemic context: What is the future?
28 June
16:30-18:00
Promotion of the ecological human settlement to enhance resilience and adaptability of vulnerable areas to the impact of climate change
28 June
16:30-18:00
Envisioning slum upgrading for the city of tomorrow
28 June
16:30-18:00
Priorities under pressure: How cities can be inclusive, resilient and green in response to a refugee crisis
28 June
16:30-18:00
Building Back Better through Urban Recovery Approaches
28 June
16:30-18:00
Strengthening the resilience of urban communities: Our way forward
28 June
16:30-18:00
Financing Green and Resilient Cities to tackle Climate Change
28 June
16:30-18:00
Smart Water Cities: definition and measurements
28 June
16:30-18:00
Good Nights: Rethinking Urban Safety, Wellbeing, and Community through Culture After Dark
28 June
16:30-18:00
Promoting Green, Resilient and Pro-poor Urban Development in Small Island Developing States
28 June
16:30-18:00
Metropolitan heritage (Heritopolis): mobilising cultural and natural heritage at the metropolitan scale
28 June
16:30-18:00
Towards Interactive and Sustainable Public and Green Spaces. "Participatory and Community Driven Initiatives from MُENA Region"
28 June
16:30-18:00
The economy of cooperation with the use of advanced technologies. An example of the use of BlockChain
28 June
16:30-18:00
The European Mission on 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030: pathways to climate neutrality and international outreach
28 June
16:30-18:00
Adoption of regional spatial strategy for peace consolidation in post conflict areas – Experience of Sudan
28 June
16:30-18:00
Unlocking secondary cities' transformative power to implement sustainable urban development
28 June
16:30-18:00
Local Governments, the key to the success of the Urban Agenda
28 June
16:30-18:00
Recovery and Resilience: Community-led Strategies to Build Back Better in Informal Settlements
28 June
16:30-18:00
Cities for the most vulnerable: Placing Housing at the Center of an Equitable Urban Future
28 June
16:30-18:00
Sharing Innovative Planning Tools for Small and Intermediate Cities
29 June
12:30-14:00
Sustainable Construction in Cities – Turning the world’s building sector!
29 June
12:30-14:00
Local and Regional Governments at the Forefront to Rebuild Ukraine
29 June
12:30-14:00
Refugees Resettlement Challenges and Impacts on Urban Future
29 June
12:30-14:00
Responding to multi-layered crises driving food insecurity in cities: Lessons from Ukraine, Ethiopia, Colombia and Jordan
29 June
12:30-14:00
Closing the Loop on Plastics- innovations to reduce urban plastic pollution
29 June
12:30-14:00
Unleashing the Potential of Intermediary Cities for Climate Action
29 June
12:30-14:00
Transitioning to a circular economy (CE) for plastics in the Asia Pacific: Enabling frameworks, digital tools and frontier technologies to address the plastics value chain
29 June
12:30-14:00
Effective policies for affordable, inclusive and environment friendly housing
29 June
12:30-14:00
Scaling up slum upgrading
29 June
12:30-14:00
The future of urban economics and finance
29 June
12:30-14:00
Real Play Coalition – Expanding the Partnership for Play
29 June
12:30-14:00
Urban Space Recovering
29 June
12:30-14:00
Towards the creation of a resilient local city through "the triangular" cooperation of development cooperation agencies, partner countries, and local cities in Japan
29 June
12:30-14:00
Fireside Chat with Secretary Fudge: Equity in Housing and Urban Development
29 June
12:30-14:00
SDG Cities: Women-led businesses supporting Women-led cities
29 June
12:30-14:00
Feminist perspectives on cities - the intersection of theories and praxis.
29 June
12:30-14:00
Scaling up essential services in African cities
29 June
12:30-14:00
Transforming Our Cities through Integrated Governance Systems
29 June
12:30-14:00
People-led solutions to the housing crisis in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
29 June
12:30-14:00
A Latin American journey for building urban resilience: Teresina's Actions for Resilience Report
29 June
14:30-16:00
GDAR Network: Increasing urban health resilience in LMICs using transdisciplinary approaches
29 June
14:30-16:00
Inter-generational dialogue on urban fragility and resilience – evidence from the city
29 June
14:30-16:00
Displacement and Urban Growth: Evidence and Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development. Learning from Partnerships Between City Governments and Aid Partners
29 June
14:30-16:00
Recovery and Reconstruction of Ukraine – Towards Joint Multi-Level, Green and Inclusive Action
29 June
14:30-16:00
Geospatial data for real-time city and local statistics and better policy
29 June
14:30-16:00
Bridging the gap between smart city projects and financing: good practices
29 June
14:30-16:00
Celebrating 45 years of HIC: Building Social Force through Co-Learning and Advocacy
29 June
14:30-16:00
Shaping green, sustainable and resilient urban areas in Europe by 2030
29 June
14:30-16:00
The Living-in.EU experience: Interoperability as a key enabler of the local digital transformation
29 June
14:30-16:00
PEARLS. Promoting a New Community of Knowledge and Practice on People Centred and Resilient Spaces related to Urban Rivers
29 June
14:30-16:00
Urban form, Ethics, Aesthetic, and Heritage: an exploration of new urbanities for a resilient future
29 June
14:30-16:00
Boosting Digitalization to achieve a Sustainable and Equitable Urban Development: Examples of 3 Subnational Strategic Plans
29 June
14:30-16:00
Supporting green entrepreneurship at the local level
29 June
14:30-16:00
Building sustainable, secure and resilient energy systems at scale through local action
29 June
14:30-16:00
Spatial Inequalities in Asia and Africa -Demystifying the Drivers
29 June
14:30-16:00
Towards Net Zero carbon architecture in Africa, Presentation of case studies of carbon neutral buildings in Africa
29 June
14:30-16:00
The Right to Housing: Innovative and effective approaches to affordable housing for all
29 June
14:30-16:00
Leaving no one in Cities behind: Addressing Inequalities through Resilient Infrastructure
29 June
14:30-16:00
Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment of Cities and Regions in Europe
29 June
14:30-16:00
Using Data to Strengthen City Safety Strategies in E Thekweni Municipality
29 June
16:30-18:00
Multi-level Action for Equitable and Sustainable Cities
29 June
16:30-18:00
The Role of Civil Society integrating refugees and migrants into the new urban model
29 June
16:30-18:00
Improving Humanitarian Shelter Coordination and Response in Cities: A snapshot of current trends, challenges, and good practices
29 June
16:30-18:00
Using Technology and Data for Livable Cities
29 June
16:30-18:00
Climate-Smart Affordable Housing: A Route to Green Infrastructure in Cities
29 June
16:30-18:00
Just, Productive, Creative and Climate-Neutral cities: R&I approaches towards sustainable urban transformation
29 June
16:30-18:00
Business Council meeting
29 June
16:30-18:00
Children and Youth and the Urban Environment: Addressing Unique Needs and Challenges Faced in Informal Settlements and Slums
29 June
16:30-18:00
Leveraging land value capture for equitable cities: Local experiences, global trends
29 June
16:30-18:00
Meeting the moment: Innovative Urban Redevelopment Programs to Address Affordable Housing
29 June
16:30-18:00
Voluntary Local and Subnational Reviews: catalyzing global alliances for the localization of the SDGs
29 June
16:30-18:00
The Future of Our Cities - Evaluating the sustainability of global cities and implementing action for a greener, healthier and fairer future
29 June
16:30-18:00
Operationalizing an “All-of-Society” Approach to Reduce Disaster-Risk and Build Resilience
29 June
16:30-18:00
Subnational Urban Policies as a tool for Sustainable Urban Development
29 June
16:30-18:00
Transforming Our Cities for a Better Urban Future
29 June
16:30-18:00
For better future of Senegalese cities Transforming Senegal slums through urban renewal, according to Baraka slum upgrading model
29 June
16:30-18:00
The ABC of Women's vision and practices for prosperous, inclusive, resilient and peaceful urban futures
29 June
16:30-18:00
How to make public transport green and fair? Tackling climate change and promoting accessibility through public transport fare policies
29 June
16:30-18:00
Digital Futures for Transport: Innovations for a More Just, More Sustainable Transformation
30 June
12:15-13:45
Developing New Mobility. Building awareness as a key factor
30 June
12:15-13:45
TBD
30 June
12:15-13:45
Help Ukrainians rebuilding Ukraine
30 June
12:15-13:45
Power of Public Space for Post-conflict Reconstruction in Contested Cities
30 June
12:15-13:45
Human Scale, Open Space and Green Urbanism
30 June
12:15-13:45
Bridging the Affordable Housing Gap through Research, Innovation and Technology: A collaboration of industry Experts
30 June
12:15-13:45
Science Meets Policy: New approaches for multisectoral collaborations to build urban-rural resilience for sustainable futures
30 June
12:15-13:45
Localizing the SDGs: Making societies resilient for the times ahead
30 June
12:15-13:45
Sub-National Urban Policies to strengthen multilevel governance
30 June
12:15-13:45
Environmental Social Governance criteria for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
30 June
12:15-13:45
Understanding, Planning and Transforming Cities for a Better Urban Future - Integrated spatial planning for area-based investments towards a greater impact
30 June
12:15-13:45
Mobilizing and Equipping Multi-Faith Organizations to be Key Implementation Partners for SDG11 Through UN-Habitat’s Flagship Programme SDG Cities
30 June
12:15-13:45
TRANSFORMING WOMEN OF CITIES: SUSTAINABLE, EQUAL AND SAFE LOCAL GOVERNANCE FROM THE CONTRIBUTION OF LATIN AMERICA
30 June
12:15-13:45
Community Initiatives in Achieving Sustainable City, Energy and Infrastructure
30 June
12:15-13:45
Metropolitan innovative solutions, dealing with inclusion challenges of cities
30 June
12:15-13:45
Designing the City of Science - what can the university give to the city? Science as a transformation tool.
30 June
12:15-13:45
Meeting demographic imbalance through sustainable urban & economic incentives
30 June
12:15-13:45
Capacity building for multi-sectoral action for health and health equity in cities
30 June
12:15-13:45
Community-driven sustainable housing: World Café & Networking Session
30 June
12:15-13:45
Planning for a New Urban Agenda
30 June
14:00-15:30
Women's vision and needs in European Cities: from destruction to rebirth
30 June
14:00-15:30
Neighborhood Risk Mitigation Plan against Natural Hazards
30 June
14:00-15:30
Enhancing the role of local governments across the humanitarian, development, peace and security nexus
30 June
14:00-15:30
Platforms of Equitable Urban Governance
30 June
14:00-15:30
Policy, participation and practice to create better urban futures: Scotland’s approach
30 June
14:00-15:30
The Way to Financing Sustainable and Resilient Urban Infrastructure - getting the private sector on-board
30 June
14:00-15:30
Integrated Planning in Western Africa: Experiences from Cameroon and Nigeria
30 June
14:00-15:30
Ensuring a just transition through the creation of green jobs in cities
30 June
14:00-15:30
The Transformative Power of Urban Living Labs
30 June
14:00-15:30
Researcher/Educator Networks to Promote Sustainable City Development
30 June
14:00-15:30
Climate Governance and Disclosure in Cities: Effectively assessing climate risks and opportunities
30 June
14:00-15:30
GROW our cities through sustainable architecture and renewable building materials – example of a multisector collaboration in a resilient humanitarian context
30 June
14:00-15:30
Affordable Housing Activation Declaration
30 June
14:00-15:30
Transition to a Better Urban Future and the Challenge “One-City” Development
30 June
14:00-15:30
Building sustainable and resilient food systems: Market Systems at the Centre of Urban-Rural Linkages
30 June
14:00-15:30
Managing public spaces: innovative practices to build community networks for a resilient governance of public spaces
30 June
14:00-15:30
Novel data for a better urban future – ensuring data continuity with the Global Human Settlement Layer
30 June
14:00-15:30
Integrating the different pieces for resilient urban development in Central America and the Dominican Republic
30 June
14:00-15:30