Places

UPLIFT looks at 16 urban areas across Europe to understand experiences of inequalities, particularly those faced by young people. 

  • Amadora (PT)

    Amadora is a densely populated municipality close to Lisbon, where many young people are confronted with unemployment

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  • Amsterdam (DK)

    Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands and its Metropolitan Area is home to 2.4 million people.

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  • Barakaldo (ES)

    Barakaldo is a medium-sized municipality in the Greater Bilbao area.

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  • Belfast (UK)

    Belfast, the capital and the largest city of Northern Ireland, is a city in redevelopment as it recovers from three d

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  • Bologna (IT)

    Bologna is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna province and home to the world’s oldest university.

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  • Borlänge (SE)

    Located NW of Stockholm, Borlänge is a former industrial city having seen stagnant population numbers for half a cent

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  • Bratislava (SK)

    The economy in the region of Bratislava accounts for about a quarter of the national GDP, despite only being home to

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  • Chemnitz (DE)

    Chemnitz is an early industrial city that was largely destroyed during WWII. Chemnitz has experienced socio-spatial f

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  • Corby (UK)

    The town of Corby has gone through multiple periods of substantial transition in the past century.

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  • Leuven (BE)

    Leuven is home to one of Europe’s most innovative universities with a combined student and research staff population

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  • Łódź (PL)

    A former industrial hub, Łódz  relied heavily on its textile industry until the 1960's when the unemployment rate soa

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  • Lom (BG)

    Lom, Bulgaria is one of the poorest regions of Europe where Roma communities make up a very large fraction of the pop

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