MIKSER UDRUZENJE

Their core work

Mikser is a Belgrade-based NGO specializing in citizen engagement, urban co-design, and community-driven approaches to urban regeneration and public health. Their work sits at the intersection of participatory urban planning and digital tools — they develop serious games, augmented reality experiences, and citizen observatory platforms that help residents interact with and shape their built environment. In EU research projects they contribute the community engagement and behavioral change components, translating complex urban health interventions (such as blue-green infrastructure) into formats that residents understand and adopt. Their value to research consortia is bridging the gap between technical urban solutions and the citizens those solutions are meant to serve.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earliest H2020 work (EuPOLIS, starting 2020), Mikser's focus was on the planning and engagement side of urban nature-based solutions — developing goals-driven planning matrices, citizen observatories, and interactive ICT tools to involve residents in urban design decisions. As their portfolio progressed into HEART (2021), the emphasis shifted toward measuring and demonstrating outcomes: assessing health impacts of blue-green interventions, validating results in clinical and non-clinical settings, and linking community data to evidence-based policy. The trajectory suggests Mikser is maturing from community mobilisation toward outcome validation and policy influence, positioning them as more analytically credible partners in future consortia.

Mikser appears to be moving from facilitation and engagement toward evidence generation and policy influence, making them an increasingly useful partner for projects that need to demonstrate social and health outcomes to funders and municipalities.

How they like to work

Mikser participates exclusively as a consortium partner — they have never led an H2020 project — which reflects their role as a specialist contributor rather than a project driver. They operate within large, multidisciplinary consortia (37 unique partners across two projects), suggesting comfort working alongside technical and academic partners as the civic engagement and community layer. This profile makes them a low-friction addition to consortia that need credible community outreach and participatory methodology but already have technical leadership covered.

Mikser has built a network of 37 unique consortium partners across 15 countries through just two projects, indicating dense, multi-partner consortia rather than bilateral arrangements. Their geographic reach spans European and likely some Western Balkan partners, consistent with the urban health and NBS project communities active in EU research.

What sets them apart

Mikser is unusual among Serbian H2020 participants in combining civic design, digital storytelling (serious games, AR), and urban health — a profile more typical of creative NGOs in Western Europe than of Balkan research actors. For a consortium building around nature-based urban solutions, they offer both a Western Balkans deployment context and a proven community engagement methodology that adds social legitimacy to technical interventions. Their NGO status also helps projects meet the civil society participation requirements that many Horizon calls now mandate.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EuPOLIS
  Largest funding received (€328K) and broadest scope — integrating nature-based solutions, citizen observatories, serious games, and augmented reality into a unified urban planning methodology across multiple European cities.
• HEART
  Advances Mikser's profile into health outcome validation, combining blue-green urban regeneration with clinical and non-clinical validation settings and AI-based monitoring — an unusual combination for a civic NGO.