In February 2026, the Porto Living Lab took part in the PROBONO Review Meeting at Sonae Campus, in Portugal. The meeting was part of the project’s formal review process and focused on presenting implementation progress, reviewing deviations, discussing risks and contingency measures, and aligning the next steps with the Project Officer and the PROBONO coordination team. Held at the Belmiro de Azevedo Learning Centre, the meeting brought together representatives from the PROBONO consortium,...

PROBONO, a Horizon 2020 project dedicated to demonstrating sustainable and people-centred building renovation through a network of Living Labs across Europe, has generated valuable lessons not only about innovation itself, but also about what it takes to deliver it. When a research project sets out to renovate a building, retrofit a neighbourhood, or build something genuinely new in the physical world, the hard part is rarely the idea. The idea is usually brilliant, which is why it was...

PROBONO developed a card-based workshop tool, the Placemaking Maptivity, to translate the ISO 37101 sustainability framework into a practical, collaborative planning experience for cities. Developed across four European countries with support from three EU-funded projects, it has now been prepared in a peer-reviewed submission. The team, from industry and academia, across four European countries has developed a new methodology to help cities turn sustainability goals into coordinated action....