About us

The University of Agriculture in Krakow (UAK) is the Polish academic partner in GREENQUAL and leads WP1: Case study area analysis as well as T1.1 Large-scale area analysis. In the proposal, UAK is presented as a specialist university active in agriculture, forestry, environmental protection, and environmental engineering. Within the project, its role is to investigate the variety, coverage, distribution, and accessibility of urban green spaces across Osaka, Krakow, and Budapest, and to support the development of accessibility maps that identify areas requiring green-space improvement. UAK also contributes expertise in 2D and 3D spatial analysis of urban fabric, green walls, optimal land use, land abandonment, climate–soil relationships, soil chemistry, and the analysis of soils exposed to anthropogenic pressure. In addition, Barbara Czesak is assigned the consortium role of Quality Assurance Supervisor, and UAK hosts WS#1 – UGS Discussion in Krakow.

Óbuda University is one of the core academic partners of the GREENQUAL project and the European lead institution of the consortium, with Dr. Viktória Sugár serving as European project leader and project coordinator. Within GREENQUAL, Óbuda University leads WP2: Simulations, experiments, calculation, and is responsible for several key tasks, including small-scale case-study analysis, methodology assessment, rainwater flooding calculations, application of methods to case studies, and urban greenery design solutions. Its main contribution lies in climate adaptation strategies, the analysis of green surfaces in dense urban fabric, CFD-based urban environmental modelling, and the design and implementation of public green interventions.

Osaka University is the Japanese lead institution in GREENQUAL, with Prof. Michihiro Kita serving as the project leader for Japan and as the consortium’s Innovation & Exploitation Supervisor. Within the project, Osaka University leads WP3: Knowledge-transfer and co-design, as well as T2.5 Health and environment relations and T3.1 Analysis of data from various methods. The proposal presents Osaka University as one of Japan’s leading research universities, with GREENQUAL research carried out through the Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI) and its Research Division for Future Society that Values Life, focused on “New Prevention of Disaster.” In substantive terms, Osaka University contributes the project’s holistic and cross-disciplinary perspective, especially in the restructuring of urban and regional systems in response to disasters, climate change, and social fragmentation, while also leading the knowledge-transfer process intended to ensure a systematic synthesis of methods and results across the partner cities.

F4STER – Future 4 Sustainable Transport and Energy Research Institute Co. is the Hungarian non-university partner in GREENQUAL and serves as the project’s applied policy, stakeholder, and handbook-development lead. The proposal describes F4STER as an interdisciplinary sustainability-oriented research institute founded in 2020, with core competences in emission reduction, sustainable urban mobility, building-sector sustainability, energy storage, and local energy communities. Within GREENQUAL, F4STER leads WP4: Stakeholder engagement, handbook, as well as T2.3 Evaporation, heat transfer, water, soil and air quality, T4.1 Technical management, T4.2 Stakeholder engagement and policy recommendations, and T4.3 Creating a handbook on project results; in addition, Dr. Bálint Hartmann is assigned the role of Technical Coordinator for the consortium. Its project contribution is framed around the characterization of dispersal, the morphology of urban growth and urban development, local policy and governance instruments, spatial planning, and stakeholder engagement for carbon-neutral city strategies.