A Thousand Planetrees for Beautiful Trebinje
A new project called “A thousand planetrees for more beautiful Trebinje” was presented recently to businessmen, investors, and representatives of city departments. The planned planting will be carried out in the next three years, and it includes the planting of park sycamore seedlings, as well…
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…
Augmented NBS for Cities: Embedding technologies and fostering social inclusion in urban strategies
The experience of NBS in place is now mature with numerous applications. However, the question of the added value in terms of innovation in the so-far applied solutions arises. The special issue of Open Access Elsevier Journal aims to collect best practices on how technologies,…
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…