Young Cities reaches BMBF Main Phase
We are glad to announce the further extended funding of the Young Cities project! The Project will be funded from 2008-2013 by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as a part of the main phase of the research programm “The Urban Transition – Research for the Sustainable Development of the Mega-Cities of Tomorrow”.
This approval was only possible through multiple key important factors:
First, the exceptionally good contacts and strong relationships between German and Iranian researchers, who cooperated not always in an obstacle free space given the political developments and circumstances.
Second, the perpetual urge for new innovative solutions to the multiple problems of urbanization in gerneral and under the highly special Iranian conditions.
Third, the capability of all project partners to readjust and reinnovate all scientific and structural parameters of the project, this especially applies to whole field of urbanization and climate change which is now, unlike three years ago, a main focus of “Young Cities – Developing Energy-Efficient Urban Fabric in the Tehran-Karaj Region”.
