Belgrade Students of Architecture join the euPOLIS
The euPolis project and the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade have finished a student competition to develop an urbanistic-architectural-conceptual design for a blue-green park on the Zemun quay with the euPolis eco-edu center building. The competition was open to master and doctoral students of architecture…
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…
Villa Turrisi admitted for funding by the Ministry of Infrastructures
The euPolis Palermo demo location, Villa Turrisi has been admitted for funding by the Ministry of Infrastructures, with resources from the PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan). The completion of the works is expected by March 2026. The project presented by the Municipality of Palermo…
Citizens demand Healthy Cities
The euPolis project has reached an important milestone. Four Front-Runner (FR) cities: Copenhagen, Lodz, Belgrade, and Piraeus have conducted voluminous surveys among the citizens of chosen demo locations in each city, along with educational workshops, aiming to map the people’s daily urban challenges, but also…
Generate Food and Energy while reducing a Building’s Cooling Costs
“Long the territory of cats, weather vanes, and the occasional fiddler, roofs are growing thick with solar panels. A home or business rooftop is an ideal place to site them because sunlight there is less obstructed by shadows and rooftops are generally unutilized spaces—it’s better for…
Real Life behind euPolis Technology: Feel Experience
The Feel Program has not only helped me understand the patterns of my anxiety but, more importantly, how to control it. My stress has not stopped completely, but the program has helped me learn how to manage it to such an extent that my daily…
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…
“You are an Expert too” Workshop in Belgrade
An interactive workshop „You are an expert too“ was recently held online in Belgrade, regarding one of the demo locations, the pocket park on Danube quay in Zemun (Belgrade’s municipality). The purpose of the workshop conducted by euPolis expert Ranko Božović was to map the…
Urgent switch from dark and unfriendly, to vivid and inviting: Łódź experience
The Łódź demo location is mostly used as a shortcut to connect more active neighborhoods with higher social frequency. Even though there is a kindergarten, and a population of older people lives nearby, the furniture is rundown, and the area may seem unfriendly to most…
The first Annual euPOLIS plenary Meeting
The euPOLIS project had its first annual two-day plenary meeting recently, on which the consortium partners summed up all so far progress, challenges, and future actions. It has been concluded that, after a year of individual efforts resulting in surveys with citizens, demo-area examinations, various…