NWA Key Enabling Methodologies (KEMs) grant for “Urban Resilience through Responsive, Relational, Representative and Responsible Policymaking – Enabling Methods for Change”

The NWA has awarded a KEMs grant to the project “Urban Resilience through Responsive, Relational, Representative and Responsible Policymaking – Enabling Methods for Change”, co-applied by our core team member Dr. Michiel de Lange. The project will receive around 3.1 million euros.

Cities must develop cohesive strategies to adapt to challenges that ask for resilience like climate change, digitalization, and social inequality. This project explores how Key Enabling Methodologies (KEMs) can foster resilient, equitable and just urban policies. Collaborating with four municipalities, many universities, and societal partners, we redesign KEMs across five policy cases. By improving these methodologies, providing reflection tools and developing a learning environment, we provide policy professionals with tools and ways of working to engage citizens in shaping resilient urban policies, ensuring that cities, their inhabitants and their environment are better prepared for the future. Find all applicants and cooperation partners here. 

The NWA Key Enabling Methodologies (KEMs) programme aims to develop knowledge and insight into the use of key methodologies, or KEMs, in solving major societal issues. KEMs are methods and instruments that help professionals and policymakers to structure the change process, formulate joint goals and develop effective frameworks. This programme investigates how KEMs contribute to a coherent policy approach and better transitions, such as in climate policy or healthcare.