The major objective of N.U.R.E.C. is to promote comparative and inter-disciplinary urban research in the European Union and beyond. Since 1989 N.U.R.E.C.’s activities to be met both within the Network and in co-operation with other international organisations have been:
- to support scientific progress in comparative urban research
- to develop a basis for the comparability of city data in the EU
- to enhance the communication between institutions participating in urban research
Thereby N.U.R.E.C.’s activities focus on three thrusts:
- the realization of integrated projects producing observation systems
- illuminating ways of comparing concepts and statistics
- the publication of research results mainly in the form of the EUROPOLIS Working Paper series