Y-PLAN empowers young people to shape their cities through participatory planning, education, and hands-on interventions. Across four European cities, youth co-create neighborhood plans, pilot urban solutions, and gain skills to influence inclusive, sustainable, and people-centered urban policies.

GreenInCities promotes nature-based solutions in 11 European cities, supporting the vision of climate-neutral, inclusive, and sustainable urban spaces by 2030. Through participatory processes, the project reintegrates nature into neighbourhoods, improving well-being and fostering balance between people, animals, and ecosystems.

Rock the Block reimagines Athens’ "polykatoikas" (apartment blocks) as collective solutions to housing, energy, and social challenges in Greek cities. Centered on the polykatoikia, the project combines technical upgrades, participatory design, and community care to create inclusive, affordable, and resilient living environments.

PlaySquare advances child-centered urban planning by bringing children’s everyday experiences into the design of public space. Through participatory workshops and interdisciplinary creative practices, the project supports children’s active engagement in understanding, reimagining, and appropriating their neighborhoods, contributing to more inclusive, playful, and socially vibrant public environments.

ELABORATOR promotes inclusive, safe, and climate-friendly urban mobility. Across 12 European cities, the project addresses diverse mobility needs considering gender, age, and social context, while reducing pollution. Through participatory planning, it develops solutions for sustainable transport integrated into future climate-neutral city strategies.

DiverCity advances inclusive city-making by centering the voices of young women and girls in urban planning. Through participatory tools and a gender-sensitive approach, the project fosters safer, more accessible, and more comfortable urban spaces that reflect diverse everyday experiences.

This participatory planning project advances inclusive, community-driven urban development in 3 Greek cities (Kalamata, Kavala, Heraklion) facing increasing spatial and social pressures. Through local engagement, community mapping, and cross-sector collaboration, the project integrates residents’ lived experiences into neighborhood-level action plans.

Athens: A City for All Ages advances age-inclusive urban planning by centering older adults’ lived experiences in the design of public space. Through participatory workshops and experiential mapping, the project highlights everyday barriers to mobility, safety, and autonomy, supporting more accessible, safer, and age-friendly urban environments shaped by seniors’ needs and perspectives.

Ioannina: Bridges of Participation advances gender-inclusive urban planning by raising awareness of how urban space is experienced differently across genders and abilities in the city of Ioannina. Through participatory workshops, experiential mapping, and policy dialogue, the project promotes inclusive urban policies shaped by residents’ lived experiences.

Inclusive Schoolyards is a long-term educational and spatial program that promotes equality and inclusion through the participatory redesign of schoolyards. By centering children’s diverse needs - particularly through a gender-sensitive lens - the program empowers school communities to transform schoolyards into shared, playful, and inclusive public spaces where all children can participate equally.

This workshop invites teenagers to explore gender, bodies, and lived experience through collective mapping. Using emotional mapping and Body Maps, participants reflect on how environments shape feelings of safety, identity, and belonging, while building trust, confidence, and collective awareness.

This participatory planning board game invites adults and children to engage with urban planning through play. By simulating real urban challenges, it creates space for dialogue, negotiation, and imagination, allowing diverse voices to surface and communities to collectively reimagine and reclaim their neighbourhoods.

Walking the city together makes everyday inequalities visible. Through a gender sensitive exploratory walk in Karditsa, students mapped how safety, accessibility, and belonging are experienced in public space, turning lived experience into collective knowledge that can inform change.

Making women and femininities visible in the city begins with listening. Through participatory walks and collective mapping in Agios Dimitrios, residents and municipal actors explored how safety, accessibility, and belonging are experienced in everyday public spaces, transforming shared concerns into concrete proposals for a more inclusive city.

Through gender sensitive workshops and exploratory walks in Kolonos (Athens), residents reflected on how public space shapes everyday life, turning lived experience into shared knowledge that can inform more inclusive local action.

Through exploratory walks, discussion, and mapping, we invited participants to explore how gender shapes everyday life in the area around Panteion University and 21 more neighborhoods of Athens.

Through participatory workshops with female students of Panteion University, this project explored how they experience public space around the University, transforming everyday routes and feelings into shared knowledge.