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BEST PRACTICES, Porto — July 11, 2023

URBiNAT Summer School, 7 – 12 July 2023

CONFERENCE, NBS — June 29, 2023

Upcoming combined UNEP-WHO Ministerial Conference

URBiNAT will be represented at the upcoming combined UNEP-WHO Ministerial Conference, addressing issues of environment and health, to be held in Budapest July 4-6.

CONFERENCE, Oman — June 28, 2023

[Call for Action] The Muscat Call 2022

Initiated by Water & Humanity, the Muscat Call 2022 is a call for action. It builds on the outcomes of the Global Forum on Technology, Sustainability and Humanity, held in Muscat, Oman, on October 17-19, 2022.

BEST PRACTICES — June 22, 2023

[Best Practices 🇪🇺] The URBiNAT NBS Catalogue: A Key Exploitable Result

The URBiNAT project, funded by the EU H2020 Programme, focuses on the regeneration of under-served urban neighborhoods through the co-creation of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). The project has recently achieved a significant milestone: its online Nature-Based Solutions Catalogue is now featured as a Key Exploitable Result on the website of the European Commission Horizon Results Platform.

BEST PRACTICES, NBS, Nantes — June 16, 2023

[Nantes 🇫🇷] 2-Day Technical Visit of the Nantes Nord Healthy Corridor

Local Scientific partners and the representatives of the URBiNAT Consortium met on 1 &2 June for a technical visit of the Nantes Nord Healthy Corridor.

BEST PRACTICES, Khorramabad — June 13, 2023

Khorramabad 🇮🇷: The URBiNAT Observer City that has led by example

Khorramabad, one of the URBiNAT Observer Cities in Iran, is a remarkable example of this. Over the past five years, Khorramabad, in coordination with URBiNAT's Frontrunner and Follower cities, has undertaken various activities to engage citizens in the co-selection and co-creation of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS).

NBS — June 6, 2023

[Barcelona 🇪🇸] Lecture on IAAC’s URBiNAT Technological NBS

URBiNAT partner IAAC lectured on URBINAT NBS projects to international students of a cross-boundary top-tier student network.

NBS, PUBLICATIONS — May 30, 2023

[Research Paper] Green Walls and Health: An Umbrella Review

Current societal challenges like climate change led to a general agreement that our cities need to become greener and our lifestyles more sustainable. Read the exciting findings from a recent study on the health benefits of green walls as a promising nature-based solution for dense urban areas and street canyons specifically.

BEST PRACTICES, CONFERENCE, Paraná, Porto — May 27, 2023

Lecture: Urban regeneration through nature: proposals for innovation and social inclusion in cities

22-26 de Maio de 2023. Gonçalo Canto-Moniz, coordenador do projecto URBiNAT, participou na Conferência Enanpur 2023, realizada em Belén, Brasil.