Fairville is an international and collaborative research project funded by Horizon Europe (the EU’s funding programme for research and innovation) for the period 2023-2026.

The Fairville project aims to address embedded urban inequalities and the challenges they pose to democracy in large cities and urban regions. It will achieve this by supporting co-production in communities and neighbourhoods that face increasing disconnection from the institutions and processes of representative democracy.

​Co-production here is a bottom-up collaboration processes aimed at reinvigorating local democratic engagement among four main types of partners: civil society organisations, academics and researchers, third-party facilitators or advocacy organisations, and local authorities. The co-production dynamics observed in the project, most of which stem from local citizens’ actions, aim to respond to urgent needs related to three main challenges: the environment, risks, and access to decent housing. Through these different themes, the project also addresses the issue of respect for citizens' fundamental rights in a context of declining democracy.

 The project uses participatory action research and the co-production of knowledge as strategies of spatial justice to address urban inequalities affecting cities, mainly in Europe but also in Africa. The research project is based on eight Fairville labs, all linked to citizen-led initiatives run by local groups partnering with the project, in eight European and African cities (Athens, Greece; Berlin, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; Calarasi, Romania;  Marseille , Cairo, Egypt; Dakar, Senegal and London, UK). 

Co Produce It CIC, Development Planning Unit at UCL, Just Space and our partners make up the London Lab. 

You can read the Fairville introductory brochure below; click the button to go to the Fairville website or read about the London Projects on that page of this website.