Are you passionate about empowering young adolescents to actively shape urban and mobility policies that reflect their preferences and needs? Are you eager to work in an international and interdisciplinary consortium of academic institutions, SMEs, public authorities, and NGOs, across five European countries and three field labs?
What?Urban and transport planning policies and practices often overlook young adolescents (ages 11–15) and their everyday mobility experiences. Promoting active and multimodal travel
among young adolescents is essential, given the decline in their current physical and mental health and the formative role of these years in shaping lifelong habits for the future. This is the focus of the NWO-funded project “i-MOBYL: Inclusive Mobility Interventions for Young Adolescents and Livable Urban Spaces” under the EU Driving Urban Transitions (DUT2024) program. The project is led by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), has consortium partners from Austria, France, Switzerland, the UK, and includes three field labs in Salzburg, Paris and Guildford.
How?You will contribute to two work packages in the i-MOBYL project. You will be leading the “Foundation and visioning” work package, which aims to co-create—with young adolescents and their communities in designated fieldlabs—visions for desirable futures that promote active and multimodal mobility, and translate these to measurable objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs). This will also include a critical policy review of how young adolescents are included in urban mobility planning. In addition, you will be closely involved in “Project management and coordination” work package, where you will support collaboration and ensure alignment across the EU consortium partners.
Where?You will be working within the
Urbanism and Urban Architecture chair (UUA). The UUA chair has developed extensive and structural collaborations with stake- and shareholders in the metropolitan region of Eindhoven to work on fundamental societal challenges, bridging teaching and research into innovative pathways with sustainable and beneficial societal impact. The group works on a broad gamma of topics in collaborative long-term programs ranging from healthy cities, inclusive cities, and circular cities to historical cities. Touching on topics like active lifestyle and active environment design, housing cultures and neighborhood design, climate change and public space and urban green infrastructure design, new economies and historical urban landscape design. These studies are rooted in the region as the base for empirical research but are strongly linked to more general (inter-) national research networks, consortiums, projects and other academic venues.
The chair is shaping these collaborations through a combination of challenge-based learning, action field research and learning organizations. In teaching, this is organized through the
UrbanLabs programs, in research through the
Urban Development Initiative (UDI) programs.