11

Nov

[SYMPOSIUM 🇪🇸] Responsive Cities Symposium – Design With Nature (IAAC)
[CONFERENCE, NBS]

Barcelona

Responsive Cities is a bi-annual international symposium on the future of cities organized by the Advanced Architecture Group of IAAC.

01

Nov

[SIENA TECHNICAL MEETING, 1-3 Nov. 2021] Consortium Meeting
[CONFERENCE, Brussels, Høje-Taastrup, Khorramabad, Nantes, Nova Gorica, Oman, Paraná, Porto, Shenyang, Siena, Sofia]

Siena

URBiNAT Consortium Meeting (Consortium members only)

20

Oct

[EU-BRAZIL DIALOGUE 🇧🇷] Inclusive Cities and Nature / Cidades Inclusivas e Natureza
[CONFERENCE, NBS, OBSERVERS, Paraná]

Curitiba

URBiNAT Event organised in conjunction with URBiNAT Observer City Curitiba, bringing together NBS experts and urban planners from Europe and Brazil.

13

Oct

[UN Habitat Live Conference 🇺🇳 ] URBiNAT speaker on panel to discuss “From Nature-Based Solutions to the Nature-Based Economy”
[CONFERENCE]

URBiNAT research findings to be discussed during UN Habitat Round Table. "There is no future for “business as usual”. Systemic transformation is needed to shift towards an economy where economic growth is decoupled from resource usage, industry is decarbonised and climate neutral and all members of society are engaged in this transition in a fair and equitable way. To achieve this systematic transformation, disruptive change is required. The role of nature-based solutions (NBS) in societal transformation have been increasingly recognised in European and international frameworks. "

12

Oct

[SEMINAR – Brussels Academy 🇧🇪] Urban Citizen University: URBiNAT partners from Sofia and Brussels to discuss co-creation of Healthy Corridors
[CONFERENCE, Brussels, Sofia]

Online Seminar organised by Brussels Academy to discuss URBiNAT implementation. Access to green public spaces is of course essential in urban areas: What happens when these spaces are unevenly distributed in the city ? Who has access to them and how qualitative are these spaces? 

29

Sep

[Conference 🇪🇺] Sustainable Places 2021, Rome
[CONFERENCE]

The 9th annual edition of Sustainable Places (SP2021) will be a hybrid event from 29th September to 1st October, with both virtual and physical sessions in Rome, Italy.

13

Sep

[Conference 🇪🇺] The Social and Solidarity Economy: From the Margins to the Mainstream
[CONFERENCE]

Under the umbrella of the OECD’s Global Action to promote Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems, this high-level virtual conference will bring together hundreds of policymakers, practitioners, and experts in the social and solidarity economy

07

Sep

[IUCN Congress 2021] URBiNAT to be discussed during special session on “Lessons learnt from co-creating nature-based solutions in Urban Living Labs”
[CONFERENCE, NBS]

This special session of the IUCN Congress will start with an introduction to the purpose of EU funded Nature-based solutions Project Task Force 6 “Co-creation and Governance” and the participants. A presentation on the state of the work of the activities in each of the TF6 work groups will follow. This special session will also include a discussion with an interactive element to engage the audience (via the use of mentimeter). The following people will be speaking at the session and will be on site: Americo Mateus (URBiNAT), Gonzalo Moniz (URBiNAT), Israa Mahmoud (CleverCities), Gerd Lurp (PHUSICOS).

07

Jul

[3rd Party Conference] Cities as Social-Ecological Systems Poznan, July 2021
[CONFERENCE]

Scientists, practitioners, and policy-makers interested in relations between socioeconomic and ecological components of urban systems are invited to attend The 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology 2020/21. Following conferences in Berlin (2013) and in Shanghai (2016) 2021 conference will be held in Poznań, Poland. The conference program covers a wide range of topics related to urban ecological aspects and social components interdependencies in cities.