Project overview
CONE- Cities of nature: nature-based-solutions in urban living labs
Despite the numerous negative effects of climate change on the environment and people’s health, climate risk awareness is generally quite low among citizens. To change this, there is a need to target and actively involve all generations. The CONE project helps city authorities to work better together with citizens to make cities greener. The partners design and test new participatory and digitally-driven processes that support the application of nature-based solutions in five urban pilot areas. Learnings from these urban living labs are then evaluated and inform a new transnational strategy for the introduction of urban greening plans.
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1,84m €
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Project Budget
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80%
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of the Budget is funded by ERDF
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5
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Countries
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7
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Regions
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10
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Partners
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3
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Pilots
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Project partners
Lead partner
UniSMART- Foundation of Padua University
EU projects unit
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International projects
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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370 92 České Budějovice
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Department of Urban Development, Municipality of Jászberény
Green department
Roadmap
Analyze your challenge!
In view of significant environmental, socio-economic and human health-related impacts, Central European regions need to improve their resilience to climate change. CONE aims to tackle the detected challenges and needs through local Urban Living Labs, a sort of innovation laboratory that involves actors from the Quadruple Helix: public, private sector, civil society and academia.
Living Labs on stage!
CONE project tests how the Urban Living Lab approach can be scalable and adaptable in more rural, small and medium-sized settlements in Europe. The partnership selects co-creation / participatory methods for designing, implementing, and monitoring NBS that are feasible and affordable in such Central European (CE) municipalities. The focus is on exploring and testing specific living lab methods that help municipalities to design and implement – based on wider citizen involvement and better data collection, management, and use.
Making ripples!
The project’s scope is not to bring something highly innovative, but to fully exploit and broadcast what is already known and not yet fully applied. Only a diffused approach can have an impact on climate change mitigation and adaptation. CONE develops pilot actions that are then collected into a replicability protocol to allow other local and regional authorities to adopt the same approach in their reference territories. CONE directly involves local public authorities that are the main key-players in the adoption of EU strategies with the important role of bringing them "to the ground", closer to citizens. Transferability can be ensured thanks to the partnership composition and the tools developed in the project. Some umbrella organizations are on board in the project. Therefore, the project can have a high resonance in the CE countries and beyond.
Let's launch the platform!
CE nature based Innovation Arena Platform will be organised at the local level and managed transnationally. The arena platform should become a space formultilevel, multisector, and multi-actor networking, initiating a virtuous cycle at the local level. Once the dialogue is ensured, citizens feel engaged and empowered, and local authorities can bring this as a best practice to be ensured in the long term. Regional public authorities responsible for environmental protection can also be easily reached. They will be approached through national workshops dedicated to policy recommendations and dissemination towards policymakers.
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