Implementing Inclusive and Just NBS – The euPOLIS Perspective
“Implementing Inclusive and Just Nature-Based Solutions: An Interactive Online Workshop in which the euPOLIS perspective will be presented is taking place on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM · 1 hr. 30 min. (Europe/Brussels). Nature-based Solutions (NBS) for EU cities and regions…
Belgrade demo site – The Zemun Oasis
The Belgrade euPOLIS experts’ team recently held an outdoor workshop with the neighbors and passers-by of one of the local demo sites, the Danube Quay. The participants were presented with the draft design of the demo park and an eco-edu center, created by the winning…
Can the Western Balkans be an Example of a Green Transition?
In 2019, 30,760 premature deaths were recorded in the Balkans region due to air pollution alone. Due to the poor condition of the water supply network, we lose 50 percent of drinking water. If this is not alarming and frightening for all of us, I…
euPOLIS at the EU Green Week
Blue Green Healthy Cities for Happy People: The euPOLIS approach in modeling Nature-based Solutions impacts in integrated urban planning & design webinar will take place under the umbrella of EU Green Week events, on June 1st, starting at 1 PM (UTC+01:00 Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London),…
Waterscape Politics in Urban Contexts Lecture
Prof. Čedo Maksimović (ICL) will give a lecture within the Waterscape Politics in Urban Contexts seminar, organized by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, taking place on May 20th, starting at 11 AM CET at the Center for Cultural Decontamination in…
Are Food Delivery Apps Making Us Obese?
Well above half of the European adults and one in three children are either overweight or obese, and this stat stands for all countries of the “old continent”. In some regions, these diseases prevailed in children and teenagers during the pandemic. However, the numbers are…
euPOLIS Experts On Editorial Board Of The Special Issue Of The “Sustainability”
The team of euPOLIS partners from Universidad de Los Andes, Imperial College London, and the Faculty of Civil Engineering from Belgrade will be the guest-editors of the upcoming Special Issue of the “Sustainability”, an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed, and open-access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and…
Mental Health: An Orphan Of Urban Design
While in rural environments the mental health stays a taboo, due to more often than not a patriarchal social patterns, it is the cities that we associate with higher rates of most mental health problems: an almost 40% higher risk of depression, over 20% more…
Join The City of Trebinje In Celebrating The International Earth Day
The City of Trebinje and the Public Institution “Ecology and Security” traditionally organize the action of arranging the city this year regarding April 22 – the International Earth Day. Photo: https://trebinje.rs.ba/ The action will be held on April 19, and the gathering of participants is…
The Deeper The Pockets, The Higher The Pollution
The European Commission adopted recently its State of the Energy Union Reports for 2021, taking stock of the progress that the EU is making in delivering the clean energy transition, nearly two years after the launch of the European Green Deal. While there are a…