First annual meeting of the NBS Italy Hub – Palermo, 19-21 November 2024
From 19 November 2024 to 21 November 2024 the City of Palermo hosted the first NBS HUB Italy annual meeting (the City of Palermo is a Founding Member), organized by the Environmental Policies Area, Ecological Transition and Green Regeneration of the municipality in collaboration with…
Nature’s Blueprint: Palermo’s Path to Urban Resilience
On October 9, 2024, the vibrant setting of the Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva in Palermo, a restored former locomotive depot, hosted a significant event in the realm of urban planning and public health—the euPOLIS project expert training session titled: “NBS (Soluzioni Basate sulla Natura) e…
Community Effective and Reflective NBS Aspirations – The Łódź Training
In June 2024, the euPOLIS project hosted an Expert Capacity Building Training in Łódź, Poland, focusing on integrating nature-based solutions (NBS) and the challenges of citizen participation. This event brought together various stakeholders to explore effective NBS selection tools and strategies for enhancing citizen engagement…
Capacity Building Expert Training in Palermo
Training event on NBS (Nature-Based Solutions) and resilience of the urban environment to climate change within the euPOLIS project will take place in Palermo, one of our Follower Cities on October 9, starting at 15.00 PM local time. Aiming to come up with sustainable, humane,…
New Park on Goken Street in Limassol
The Goken Park was constructed and delivered to the Limassol citizens, last May. It’s located in the westernmost district of Limassol, Zakaki district, at a distance of 6.5km from Limassol’s Municipal Garden and the city center. The target for the park is to convert the…
euPOLIS Bogotá Team @ICUD 2024 Conference
Juan Pablo Rodriguez, a euPOLIS expert from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá participated recently in the ICUD 2024 Conference where he presented the euPOLIS methodologies through a poster, on the topic: Feasibility methodology for selecting and locating urban Nature-based solutions considering socio-economic criteria.…
euPOLIS Urban Lab – Designing Cities to Fit the Citizens
The all-day program of the Urban Lab at the recently concluded Mikser festival gathered more than 60 experts from various fields applied to the designing and improving of cities and public spaces aimed at the health and well-being of citizens. With euPOLIS and HEART experts,…
JOIN URBAN LAB @ MIKSER FESTIVAL 2024
Urban Lab is an all-day international think tank within the Mikser Festival 2024, which brings together local experts from all around Europe, Asia, and Latin America, of various profiles around the topic of improving the application of nature-inspired solutions and citizen participation in shaping our…
Santa Rosalia and the Protection of the Biodiversity
Few know about the existence of a connection between Santa Rosalia, patron saint of the city of Palermo, and the world of scientific studies on the evolution of the species and that the “Santuzza” can rightfully be considered the patron saint of evolutionary biology studies….
International Earth Day in Trebinje: Cleaning the City and Planting Trees
On the occasion of the International Day of the Planet Earth, the traditional action of beautification of the city took place in Trebinje – our Follower City, organized by the City of Trebinje, and the Municipal Company. Stevan Bekan, director of the “Ecology and Safety” JU, said that…