Metropolitan Inclusivity in Climate and Digital Transitions (MICAD) is a Horizon Europe project focusing on inclusive metropolitan planning in climate and digital transitions. The project will highlight key elements of multilevel governance policies focusing on digital and climate transitions, understood as a comprehensive and collaborative approach to urban development that actively involves a diverse range of stakeholders: residents, communities, businesses, and governmental bodies. The goal is to ensure that the planning process considers and incorporates the needs, perspectives, and priorities of all members of the metropolitan community, especially those who may traditionally be marginalized or underrepresented.
The project includes five European cities/metropolitan authorities: the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) in Spain, the Metropolitan City of Milan in Italy, the City of Tirana in Albania, the City of Chisinau in Moldova and the Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia (GZM) in Poland.
These cases will be analysed by the knowledge providers partners Metropolis (FR, lead partner), MRI (HU), UTA (FR), ENoLL (BE), HES-SO (CH), ALDA (FR), Kentyou (FR) an Institut Metropoli (ES).
MRI is the leader of Work Package 2 of the project, with the main tasks of analysing metropolitan governance, strategic metropolitan planning and inclusive approaches in order to develop an inclusive metropolitan planning framework. Furthermore, MRI will lead the work to develop a toolkit prototype for inclusive metropolitan planning in digital and climate transitions. The Kick-Off meeting of 3 years long MICAD project has been held in Chisinau, Moldavia on 12-14 March 2025.
