LIFE Urban Greening Plans Closing Conference
The project LIFE Urban Greening Plans is reaching its final stage. During the last two years, the project partners have been working very closely with other European institutions in order to streamline the inclusion of Green Infrastructure and Nature Based Solutions (NBS) in urban areas as…
The euPOLIS Featured in Open Access Goverment – January Edition
“The euPOLIS vision: Improving well-being with nature-based solutions” article can now be found on the Open Access Goverment platform, in its January 2023 issue. “The adverse effects of urbanization have taken a toll on people’s mental and physical health, here’s how co-design and nature-based solutions…
The euPOLIS: Belgrade Blue-Green Regeneration
As part of the euPOLIS project dedicated to improving the quality of the city’s environment by introducing solutions based on nature in public areas, the local team in Belgrade started their first „tangible“ work on creating a micro-climatic park. The process begins by planting 20…
Stakeholders Conference By EuropaBON & Biodiversa+
EuropaBON’s second stakeholder hybrid conference will take place on 8 November 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. For the organization of this stakeholder conference, EuropaBON is partnering with Biodiversa+ to bring together the wider biodiversity monitoring community. This event will provide the opportunity for a range of…
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,…