Katalin Bunyevácz

I am a geographer having a master’s degree in spatial development gained in Eötvös Lorand University of Science, Budapest and a master’s degree in GIS (Geographical Information System) gained in Lund University, Sweden. Following the years of working as spatial planner contributing to regional and integrated urban development strategies of Hungarian cities, I started to work as project manager of interregional and transnational projects (Urbact, Interreg Europe, Central Europe) on behalf of Lead Partner municipalities. In the last 10 years I have been involved in the management of more than 8 projects gaining rich experiences in guiding partners through different learning and cooperation processes. As thematic expert, I also contributed to the design of urban strategies, concepts, action plans, furthermore manuals, case studies, reports incorporating good practices and policy recommendations for sustainable integrated urban development.

Since 2020, I have been a validated Urbact ad-hoc expert. I contributed to the Health&Greenspace project by implementing an online training on the use of GIS in health-responsive planning of urban green spaces. I also organized a GIS workshop and elaborated a report in the ALT/BAU project about the application areas of GIS for inventory, monitoring, evaluation of vacant places in cities and in the PUMA project about the application of GIS for designing smarter mobility plans. Moreover, I contributed to the SIBdev and Agents of co-existence network in the field of digital transition in participatory planning. I designed and led a GIS session at the URBACT City Festival in June 2021.

I am currently the Innovative Action Expert for the SAM-SUD Call 3 project, supporting the City of Košice in capturing and sharing lessons learned from its innovative AI- and data-based decision-making solution. I also work for EUI as curriculum designer for national capacity-building events, particularly on the green and digital transition.

In Urbact IV, I am looking forward to being the Lead Expert of networks which targets digital transition, greening cities, citizen engagement or cultural creative industry. 

According to the partners from my previous projects, I am quite a strong leader but also a kind, flexible and motivating one who supports all partners in their best and worst moments. I hope to be this person in one of the Urbact networks as well.

I am also available as an ad hoc expert, particularly for GIS training, tailored to partners’ specific urban challenges and action planning support.