CONNECTING: COproduction with Nature for City Transitioning, INnovation and Governance
Objectives
This European initiative, led by Trinity College Dublin and called "Connecting Nature" (connecting with nature), arises from the need to promote urban resilience, that is, the adaptation of cities and their inhabitants to the change that the great impact they are producing on the environment, adopting measures to alleviate it and thus preserve nature and the habitability of cities.
The ambitious objective of this project, in which 29 partners from 16 countries participate, is to position the European Union as a world leader in the adoption of these practices, for which the involvement of municipal governments, SMEs, the world will be sought academics and civil society in order to create a multidisciplinary framework based on innovation and technology as a means to test this methodology in different cities and gradually transmit it to others, introducing natural elements into the "urban" ecosystem and thus increasing levels of health and well-being of citizens.
EXPECTED RESULTS AND MEASURES TO IMPLEMENT
- Analysis of initiatives with similar objectives and their results.
- Location and contact with the different agents and institutions that are expected to participate.
- Identification of the needs and approach of specific objectives in the short, medium and long term.
- Development of a joint action strategy to achieve these objectives.
- Dissemination of the project and the actions that are being carried out to seek the involvement and awareness of the public.
Duration: 60 months (5 years)
Documentation:
Participants
- Ireland
- Belgium
- United Kingdom
- Poland
- Spain
- Italy
- Bulgaria
- Greece
- Cyprus
- Bosnia y Herzegovina
- Armenia
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Romania
- Georgia
- Slovenia
Other participating cities: Genk (BE), Glasgow (UK), Poznań, (PL), A Coruña (ES), Bologna (IT), Burgas (BG), Ioannina (GR), Nicosia (CY), Málaga (ES), Sarajevo ( BA), Pavlos Melas (GR)
