BeDS for BUG is a research agenda composed of several international projects with the aim of understanding the role of and developing further decision-support methods for different stakeholders engaged in urban governance.​

The research explores different scales and contexts where a wide range of stakeholders - institutional, community - take the leading role in designing and implementing governance models by using effective processes to achieve their common objectives.​

The research will engage with multiple stakeholders from several urban areas, with different nature, scope and activities involved in urban governance at all scales of the urban environment.​ ​

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This is a research agenda led by Dr Nuno Pinto from the University of Manchester and brings together academics from the University of Manchester (UK), the University of Brasília and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), El Colegio de Jalisco, Mexico, KTH (Sweden) and IIT Madras (India).

Technology partners include Geodesignhub (Ireland).

And stakeholders from different urban contexts, as Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the Manchester City Council (UK), the Armazém do Campo, No Setor and Instituto Agroterra (Brazil), Coimbra Coolectiva (Portugal).

New partners are expected to join.

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Funders associated with these projects include the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Office for Open Research of the University of Manchester (UK), the Foundation for Science and Technology Portugal and the Schlumberger Foundation.

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Click on the links in the map below and check what we are doing in each of the cities.