2022–2025 Co-Hope

Co-Hope was a European research project funded by the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe. It ran from 2022 to 2025 with project partners across Europe: the project was led by Lund University in Sweden, further project partners were the University of Seville, the Vienna University of Technology, UrbaMonde France, the University of Lyon, the University of Tampere and a number of other initiatives and institutions. I was the Austrian consortium leader and conducted research together with the TU Vienna, Urban Innovation Vienna (UIV) and the Initiative Gemeinsam Bauen und Wohnen. The topic of the project was collaborative housing in the pandemic era: it was about an international, inter- and transdisciplinary evaluation of such forms of housing, innovative approaches and policy recommendations as well as capacity building in this field. The project was funded by the Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (Austrian Research Promotion Agency) FFG. A central result of the Austrian team was the Guidebook Co-Creating Collaborative Housing Communities.