Stamatis: We Still Don’t Feel Like Citizens
-Certainly, the mindset and character of a city are intertwined, akin to performing in a personal theater daily, with the city as the stage. Unfortunately, this understanding is often overlooked. When we shut our doors, everything beyond becomes an indistinct “outside,” contrasting with the inside,…
euPOLIS Partners at The Verde.tec – Environmental Technologies Exhibition
Verde.tec – Environmental Technologies Exhibition, one of Greece’s most important environmental technologies events that explores a wide range of topics on energy, the circular economy, and smart cities, took place from 17-19 March in Athens at the MEC. Our partners visited the exhibition and presented…
euPOLIS in Piraeus: A New Smart Bench in Mikrolimano
The “smart” bench was procured and installed in Mikrolimano by the Department of Environment and Greenery of the Municipality of Piraeus, as part of the euPOLIS NBS implementation process. It is designed, produced, and installed by the Energy4Smart company. Photo: Courtesy of Energy4Smart The bench…
The Implementation of the euPOLIS philosophy: The Technology And The Mindset
During the past two months, the euPOLIS local teams in each Front Runner City (Gladsaxe, Lodz, Belgrade, and Piraeus) have taken the first steps toward the implementation of the NBS technologies. This means closer than ever collaboration with the local citizens who will be wearing…
euPOLIS at TNOC on March 29th and 30th
The euPOLIS project will be presented for the second year in a row at the distinguished The Nature of Cities festival, on March 29th by the ICL team, and on March 30th by Gladsaxe and Piraeus Municipalities representatives. This year, WELLBASED is an official host of…
The Piraeus NBS Talks with Citizens
The City of Piraeus hosted an online workshop in mid-January inviting city planners, contractors, and professionals of landscape projects in the public and private sector as well to an open discussion, aiming to engage local experts in the design and implementation of the pilot interventions…
Stelios Prassas: Clear skies excite me, not fancy restaurants
Most people left behind their birthplaces, crops, their villages and moved to the large cities, mainly Athens in Greece. With the evolution of technology, each kid now wants to study, and the whole world is moving towards strict education. But we are not eternal, and…
The City of Piraeus Calls To Action
As one of the Front-Runner Cities in the euPOLIS project, The City of Piraeus will host an Online Workshop on Wednesday, October 20th, starting at 17,00 local time. Being one of the four pilot cities, The City of Piraeus is a testing ground for the implementation of…
euPOLIS Demo Cities – The Citizens’ Experience
With participation being one of the core euPOLIS values, a thorough survey was conducted among the citizens of the demo locations, aiming to map the health and well-being challenges and point out the desired and fitting nature-based solutions to be implemented. In the past few…
Ancient heritage and bright, healthy future
Piraeus Nature-Based Solutions demo-locations Introduction Piraeus is a port city with a fascinating and ancient history, vibrant, with sights worth seeing. A city that grew and gained power, becoming an important commercial, cultural and industrial center throughout the centuries. Themistocles was the first to realize…