Sustainable Places 2025

Sustainable Places 2025 (SP25), 8 – 10 October 2025, convenes leading EU research and innovation projects at the Monte Rosa 91 Conference Centre in Milan, Italy (and online). The event serves as a forum for researchers, industry, policymakers, and practitioners to share results, explore new ideas, and foster collaboration at the building, district, and urban scales.

This Open Research Europe collection showcases insights from eligible European-funded projects participating in SP25. The continued partnership between SP25 and Open Research Europe provides eligible European project beneficiaries with an outlet to publish their work in full compliance with the open access terms of their funding agreements.

SP25 themes include:

• Energy communities, smart cities & urban transition
• Sustainable construction & renovation
• Climate change mitigation & adaptation
• Facilitating the energy transition: policy, finance, training
• Sustainable urban renewal & cultural transformation
• Renewable energy technologies
• Decarbonisation & circularity
• Resilience & energy security
• Data centres, digital twins & artificial intelligence for sustainability

For questions related to this collection, please contact the SP25 organisation committee (sustainableplaces@r2msolution.com).

Collection advisors: Antonis Vlasopoulos (Imperial College London, UK), Eduard Loscos (Building Digital Twin Association, Belgium), Eva Coscia (R2M Solution, Italy), Marcello Aprile (Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Energia, Italy), Zia Lennard (R2M Solution, France)