Permaculture – Micro-tactics and a Lesson in Unlearning: Ivana Momčilović Dramaturge & Jelena Šaletić Agronomist
The innovative permaculture reconversion experience of the “Orangeries de Bierbais” park (Belgium), an English garden that contained monumental tropical greenhouses during the 19th century (1828). After the intervention of brutalist architects in the 1970s, a few years back, Orangeries became a “third place”, experimental, self-managed, and…
Transforming Bogotá City through Temporary Urbanism
Bogotá, one of the Follower Cities of the euPOLIS project, which is represented by the Urban and Renewal Company of the city (RenoBo, formerly known as ERU) and Universidad de los Andes, under the leadership of Renobo, is making significant efforts to improve human well-being…
vertical farm institute @FoodPrint Exhibition
ALINA – a prototype by our euPOLIS partner, the VFI, as an essential component of the FoodPrint Exhibition, initially showcased at the Technisches Museum Wien in 2002, followed by an exhibition in DASA Dortmund the subsequent year, remains on display at Parque de las Ciencias…
Stamatis: We Still Don’t Feel Like Citizens
-Certainly, the mindset and character of a city are intertwined, akin to performing in a personal theater daily, with the city as the stage. Unfortunately, this understanding is often overlooked. When we shut our doors, everything beyond becomes an indistinct “outside,” contrasting with the inside,…
BioValue Angle – Improving Food Biodiversity Using New Recipes and Food Products
Since the 1900s, more than 75% of the genetic diversity of food has been lost. One of the reasons for this is the cultivation of uniform crops on large arable areas and deforestation, which reduced genetic differences within varieties. As a result of this homogenization,…
Can Green Be a Profitable, Fast-Growing Business – the euPOLIS Angle
The euPOLIS experts are identifying sound business models, replicable to other markets, and developing new resource activation techniques and ways to scale up Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). This will support a gradual transition to a leading market position for the euPOLIS project, moving it to the forefront of…
Urban Planning Gamification by euPOLIS
As part of creating and developing tools and methodologies to level up urban planning, creating sustainable, livable, and resilient cities for the future – now, a euPOLIS expert, Ioannis Kavouras from the National Technical Univesity of Athens, made a demo version of the euPOLIS urban…
euPolis, GoGreenRoutes, IN-HABIT, and VARCITIES presented their joint Manifesto during the EU Green Week at the Network Nature Event
The EU Green Week 2023 has begun! Europe’s biggest annual event on environmental policy gathers over 250 partner events organized across Europe and beyond, allowing everyone to be part of the debates. EuPolis, GoGreenRoutes, IN-HABIT, and VARCITIES, the four European projects that designed the Manifesto,…
Plenary Meeting + Expert Training by The euPOLIS Team
The fifth plenary meeting of the euPOLIS project consortium took place in early May in Gladsaxe, near Copenhagen. All partners’ representatives gathered to evaluate the so far road taken, mark the milestones, and debate on future steps on all project’s aspects: technological, social, economic, cultural,…
euPOLIS in Trebinje
As part of the implementation of the project activities of the euPOLIS project, a lecture was held in the assembly hall of the city administration of Trebinje on the topic “Integral improvement of the environment for the needs of innovative economic development of the city…