NBS, PUBLICATIONS, Høje-Taastrup — March 2, 2023 [Høje-Taastrup 🇩🇰] Cards & Reflection Method for Citizen Involvement A Design Thinking Method for easy and effective involvement of citizens in city planning processes developed and tested with Høje Taastrup Municipality in Denmark.
BEST PRACTICES, PUBLICATIONS, Høje-Taastrup — November 10, 2022 [Høje-Taastrup 🇩🇰] Booklet co-produced by citizens and local stakeholders involved in selecting NBS and co-creating a Healthy Corridor Booklet co-produced by citizens and local stakeholders involved in selecting NBS and co-creating a Healthy Corridor in the town of Høje-Taastrup in the greater Copenhagen region.
BEST PRACTICES, Brussels, Høje-Taastrup, Khorramabad, Nantes, Nova Gorica, Porto, Siena, Sofia — May 31, 2022 [In the News 🇪🇺] “Wake up!” EU-funded project calls on young citizens to engage in co-creating sustainable and greener cities Exclusive video interview with REA, URBiNAT talks about the importance of social participation for co-creating cities worth living in where solutions are inspired by nature.
CONFERENCE, Brussels, Høje-Taastrup, Khorramabad, Nantes, Nova Gorica, Oman, Paraná, Porto, Siena, Sofia — May 30, 2022 📣 Last days to register for the URBiNAT Conference on Nature for Innovative and Inclusive Urban Regeneration, Milan, 16 & 17 June 2022 Last days to register for international URBiNAT Conference on "Nature for Innovative and Inclusive Urban Regeneration" (NATiURB), Milan, 16 & 17 June 2022
CONFERENCE, NBS, Høje-Taastrup — April 20, 2022 [HØJE-TAASTRUP 🇩🇰] See What’s New From Høje-Taastrup Høje-Taastrup will host the upcoming URBiNAT Consortium Meeting on 9-11 May. This will be a great opportunity to share experiences and to explore local developments. And there are many of them!
Høje-Taastrup, Khorramabad, Nantes, Nova Gorica, Porto — April 3, 2022 Zoom on URBiNAT Cities As always there is a tremendous amount going on in our partner cities right now. This zoom on Nantes, Porto, Høje-Taastrup, Nova Gorica, and Khorramabad is just a brief overview of what the cities have been working on and what is to come!
PUBLICATIONS, Brussels, Høje-Taastrup, Nantes, Nova Gorica, Porto, Siena, Sofia — March 8, 2022 [Research Paper] Inclusive Urban Regeneration with Citizens and Stakeholders: From Living Labs to the URBiNAT CoP Peer-review publication: Inclusive Urban Regeneration with Citizens and Stakeholders: From Living Labs to the URBiNAT CoP
COVID-19, Høje-Taastrup — June 4, 2021 [COVID-19 🇩🇰] Challenges, responses and solidarity in Høje-Taastrup As COVID-19 tore across Europe and the world it struck at the heart of our societies, taking lives and revealing in a harsher, more uncompromising light the extent of social, economic, and environmental disparities within our communities. In some sense, the pandemic spread indiscriminately. Yet, it is clear that factors such as income level, housing type, neighborhood, and other socioeconomic variables would (once again..) determine starkly different levels of exposure or risk. Individuals, families, and communities have not suffered the effects of the pandemic in the same way. But what does this really mean? How have people coped with the restrictions imposed by COVID-19 mitigation policies? What lessons can we draw from this period?
NEWS COVERAGE, Høje-Taastrup — April 19, 2021 [HØJE-TAASTRUP 🇩🇰] URBiNAT Follower City competing for title of Denmark’s “wildest municipality” In March this year a competition was launched in Denmark challenging municipalities to compete for the title of "wildest municipality". The winning municipality will be assessed on the following criteria: new biodiversity ideas, engagement, the size of the areas converted for biodiversity and spreading of knowledge and skills related to creating wild nature to citizens. In addition, municipalities are free to focus on completely different activities to improve biodiversity in the municipalities. Out of 98 municipalities 89 have enrolled and the competition will run from now and until autumn 2022. Surprise, surprise, Høje Taastrup is of course part of the competition and Nabil Zacharias Ben Chaabane Nabil and his team are part of the endeavors. Obviously, the URBiNAT project in Høje Taastrup will help in this matter, since one of the aims is with citizens to improve biodiversity in the Gadehavegaard area. The big prize is 1 mill. Danish kroner to be invested by the winning municipality in additional biodiversity. Similar to the successful strategy in Hjørring, the competition highlights the importance of engaging citizens and other stakeholders to achieve a maximum of biodiversity. Now the big question: Have you got a great idea that Høje Taastrup could use to help them win this competition? If you have, Nabil and I would love to hear from you. Tom Mackenzie Tom , you are welcome to use this story on our website also, if you find it worth while.