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…
Protecting People and the Planet
“Extreme and unprecedented weather events, severe droughts, floods, and raging wildfires show us, time and again, the devastating impacts of climate change on people. Home to more than half of the world’s population, cities find themselves on the front line of climate change and exposed…
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….
euPOLIS Goes Live: Beyond-The-State-of-The-Art Achievements
Organized by Mikser and ICL the event will hold two morning sessions presenting our partners’ innovations achieved through their work in euPOLIS. To sum up the impact and importance of introducing the NBS into urban cores and our daily lives, we will have a panel…
euPOLIS @ NetworkNature
On Tuesday 27th September, the NetworkNature annual event will take place in Brussels, at the Museum of Natural Sciences. In this event, the four sister projects euPOLIS, IN-HABIT, goGREENROUTES, and VARCITIES will participate and have a joint presentation of their clustering activities. From the NetworkNature website: “The event…
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…
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),…
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…
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…