euPOLIS at The Two-Day NetworkNature Event in Brussels
The euPOLIS experts participated in the two-day NetworkNature event dedicated to Upscaling Nature-based solutions in policy and practice. The first day of the event was dedicated to the opportunity to learn more about the state-of-the-art developments in NBS practice & policy and was held in person….
The First euPOLIS In-Person Meet-Up
After two years of individual work in pandemic conditions, members of the euPolis project consortium met for the first time face-to-face on September 29th and 30th in the Zornić House ethnic complex on the outskirts of Belgrade and also used this occasion to visit two…
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),…
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…
World Health Day 2022: Our Planet, Our Health
On World Health Day, 7 April 2021, the WHO invites citizens to join a new campaign to build a fairer, healthier world. The theme for this year’s World Health Day is “Our Planet, Our Health”. Amid the ongoing pandemic and pollution growing on the planet,…
Scientifically Proven – Being Dirty Makes You Happy
Despite the aggressive „kills 99% of germs“ cleaning products advertisements, we very well know that letting some dust sit on our home surfaces, and non-sterile environments boost our immune system, make us more resilient to allergens, and let’s admit it, gives us more time to…
Architecture Students for Zemun Quay
The expert jury of the euPOLIS project in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade selected three student works from the competition for urban-architectural conceptual design of the blue-green park on Zemun Quay with the design of a building for the euPOLIS eco-edu center…
Danish Architect in Belgrade: Urban Planning & Working with Nature
Danish architect Morten Rask Madsen as a partner in the euPOLIS project (BySpektrum) will hold a lecture “Urban planning – cooperation with nature”, on Friday, March 25 at 1 pm in Belgrade, Serbia in the Technical Faculty Building. The lecture is open to anyone interested…
EU Green Week 2022
EU Green Week is the key event in the EU environment policy calendar. Organized by the Directorate-General for Environment of the European Commission, the conference is an annual opportunity to debate and discuss European environmental policy. It attracts policymakers, leading environmentalists, stakeholders, and other interested…