Resources
This page contains links to the different types of outputs of the URBiNAT project. These include formal project outputs (deliverables), related outputs (articles, manuals, posters), academic papers, book chapters and other materials that have been produced as part of the project. Each section of the page corresponds to different areas of activity.
Our aim is to publish as many resources as possible in an Open Access format. Nonetheless, some resources are “restricted” meaning that they are limited to certain audiences. Permission to access these documents can be obtained on request. URBiNAT project resources are also available on other pages of the site.
Theoretical & Methodological Foundations
Handbooks
D1.1: Handbook on workflow RESTRICTED
The URBiNAT handbook on workflow and standard quality procedures is a deliverable (D1.1) of task 1.1 dedicated to the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of activities, involving all members of the Steering Committee (SC), which is composed by the coordinator and all work packages leaders, as well as task leaders or other partners representatives who are invited to participate according to the issues to be managed.
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D1.2: Handbook on the theoretical and methodological foundations of the project RESTRICTED
The handbook is a collaborative document written with the contribution of members of the 28 partners and 5 observers, that constitute the URBiNAT Community of Partners. The theoretical and methodological foundations of the project are, in this sense, inclusive and interdisciplinar, because it integrates the perspective, the expertise and the experience from partners that have different backgrounds and different role, as academics, municipalities, companies and associations.
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D3.1: Strategic design and usage of participatory solutions and relevant digital tools in support of NBS uptake
D3.2: Community Driven Processes to Co-Design and Co-Implement NBS
Deliverable 3.2 (D3.2) is the second deliverable of work package 3 (WP3) on citizens’ engagement. D3.1, submitted in month 12 of the project, reported on the strategic design, use of participatory solutions and relevant digital tools in support of the uptake of n ature-based solutions ( NBS). D3.2 reports on the advancements of the URBiNAT project in tailoring participatory methods and tools to city cultures for the co-design and co-implementation of NBS processes.
D3.3: Portfolio of Methods, Tools and Content - Forming Digital Enablers of NBS RESTRICTED
This deliverable has been framed for the objective of collecting and structuring information as a basis for enhanced understanding of how to apply so-called “digital enablers” to support the co-creation process around NBS and healthy corridors in URBiNAT cities, and to draw wider lessons thereof. Despite the opportunities offered by digitalisation, as observed in ambitious plans for the development of smart cities, urban planners continue to struggle in addressing serious outstanding issues, including fragmentation and lack of engagement by disadvantaged groups. Although the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will not by itself resolve these issues, the constructive application of digital enablers can be greatly helpful. Building on the experience at hand and linking to the evolving experience of URBiNAT cities, this report sets out to cast new light on ways forward in this respect. The audience includes members of the URBiNAT project along with others interested in the project and lessons on how to address the issues at hand.
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Ethics & Human Rights
Ethical Principles & Guidelines
D1.4: Ethical Principles Guidelines. Composition of the Ethics Commission and Submission of Additional Requirements RESTRICTED
This report has the main objectives of reviewing the URBiNAT ethical principles (D. 1.4), presenting the preliminary version of attributes and indicators for monitoring and evaluation, and establishing the composition of the Ethics Commission. Also, includes the articulation with other deliverables of WP 1, as D.1.6, and WP8, namely D.8.1., 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4, dedicated to the ethics requirements/approvals.
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D1.6: Preliminary ethical guidelines, and communication and reporting procedures RESTRICTED
This document is composed by a set of preliminary ethical guidelines that should guide the whole project´s development and implementation; and by the establishment of general communication and reporting procedures between consortium members/partners, including their frequency, style and the set of rules that must conduct communication practices among partners and the reporting system to the project coordination.
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Human Rights & Gender Issues
D1.5: Compilation and Analysis of Human Rights and Gender Issues
The present deliverable D1.5 is the first report aimed at compiling and analysing human rights and gender issues in the scope of URBiNAT's planning, implementation and evalutation of activities, covering the first year of the project, from June 2018 to May 2019.
This is an internal document for use by URBiNAT Consortium Members only.
URBiNAT Living Labs
From Living Labs to CoP: Definition and Establishment of URBiNAT's Community of Practice RESTRICTED
The present document presents the context for URBiNAT’s Community of Practice (CoP), its objectives, how it is framed also outlines its further development and potential outcome and benefits for various actors. The report is directed to the widest defined circle audiences that are interested in the URBINAT project and its contribution. It builds on and gives extensive reference to URBiNAT’s concept and its working methods, however, and thus refrains from attempting to achieve easy readability for the general public. This is a working document with restricted access only for the time being. The final version of the document will be made accessible for public access in due course.
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Milestone 2: URBiNAT Living Labs & Community of Practice RESTRICTED
Milestone 2 consists on the establishment of “Living labs with its CoP (Community of Practice) in 7 cities (frontrunners and followers cities) and in the non-European cities to start coaching and sharing, in order to develop the participatory process and the urban planning" (Grant Agreement). With this document it is possible to state that all URBiNAT cities have successfully established their Living Labs, even though in different stages of development (as expected). The document sets the key point of achievement of Milestone 2, by compiling and sharing the state of the art on the establishment of the Living Labs and CoP in Front-runner, Follower and Observer cities.
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As part of the URBiNAT project collaborative laboratories (Living Labs) are being established within Frontrunner and Follower cities for the implementation of pilot NBS solutions in urban regeneration strategies. The LABS will serve both to upgrade critical urban areas and to enhance collective cooperative attitudes towards sustainability and the adoption of sustainable solutions. These operative structures will include representatives from municipalities, local communities, universities, research centers, industries and citizens.
URBiNAT Observatory
Data Management
D1.3: Data Management Plan
The purpose of this document is to provide an initial version of URBiNAT’s Data Management Plan (DMP). This is a living document which will be updated during project development when the need arises in order to improve the internal processes. The DMP derives from Task 1.3 “Innovation, IPR and data management” of Work Package 1 “Management of consortium and project’s general implementation”. It constitutes the Deliverable D1.3.
D5.1: Long-term sustainable data platform(s), enabling measurements, responses, in real time RESTRICTED
The purpose of this document is to define needed steps to complete internal processes and achieve its goals according to URBiNAT long-term sustainable data platform, which as a living document will be updated during project development when the need arises in order to improve the internal processes.
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Local Diagnostic Reports
D2.1: Local Diagnosis Report for Each Frontrunner City
This report describes the variables explored in the first and second stage of the Local Diagnostic. In the first stage, it is requested that the cities provide secondary information of use to framing their specific relevant conditions. Such information will be helpful for further identifying the location and wider context for the implementation of healthy corridors, with the prospect of enabling real improvement of the quality of life for citizens.
Academic Papers & Articles
[Scientific Paper] Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica - ITALY - "Healthy Corridors for Inclusive Urban Regeneration"
Canto Moniz, Gonçalo &Ferreira, Isabel. Healthy Corridors for Inclusive Urban Regeneration. in Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica No. 158, May - August 2019
The European Commission is promoting an inclusive urban regeneration, in the frame of the Smart and Sustainable cities, that should integrate the environmental approach, through the nature-based solutions (nbs), and the social approach, through the co-creation process. More than research projects, the financing programs, as H2020, are supporting innovation actions that move the research from the universities to the communities, creating living labs. These laboratories are holders, municipality technicians, companies and researchers in order to develop together solutions for new urban challenges.
[Scientific Paper] Co-criação de Soluções baseadas na Natureza envolvendo comunidades e oportunidades de diálogo Europa-Brasil
Journal Parcerias Estratégicas - v.25 - n.50 - junho de 2020 - Edição especial
Transformations around modes of production have changed the way citizens, users and consumers are considered and recognized in the processes of cocreation and co-production. However, at the same time that the spaces for networking and sharing are expanding, new challenges arise for co-production and co-government. In development since 2018, the URBiNAT project foresees the implementation of healthy corridors in 3 European cities. In these cities there are active living labs to promote processes of active involvement of citizens in the design and implementation of corridors through the catalogue of nature-based solutions (NBS). This paper aims to focus on the current understanding about participation and knowledge and how they operate at the level of URBiNAT strategies; and reflect on how a European project experience can dialogue with other experiences and contexts such as Brazil. It is an inclusive urban regeneration project centered on people, which tries out new approaches and new combinations of traditional approaches, and as inherent in its nature, prioritizes the specific aspects of its path.
[Book Chapter] Innovative Solutions for Creating Sustainable Cities, Ed. Sylvie Albert (2019)
NBS for inclusive urban regeneration will be co-designed, co-developed and co-implemented in a trans-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder and participatory context. NBS consider the social sciences and humanities which play an essential role for social innovation, and thus addresses complex social and sociological challenges. The expected results of URBiNAT are multiple: it raises EU leadership and creates economic opportunities in global markets (supply and demand) with new products, services, protocols and standards. To ease the development of NBS appropriate measure favouring implementation include leveraging investments, reducing regulatory and administrative barriers, creating new local green jobs and, of course, increasing awareness of the benefits of renaturing cities. URBiNAT will demonstrate that the implementation of NBS is also a source of healthier, culturally diverse, and a greener, regenerated Europe, which may alter currently deprived districts as well as neglected or abandoned areas.
[Conference Paper] Les Solutions Basées sur la Nature: Une Stratégie d'Adaptation aux Changements Globaux
ABSTRACT: Les effets du changement climatique en Afrique subsaharienne commencent à être bien connus, en lien avec la hausse des températures et la modification des précipitations. Ils touchent de nombreux secteurs vitaux tels que l’alimentation, l’eau, la santé. En parallèle, l’urbanisation croissante passée et future, à l’échelle mondiale et africaine, peut accentuer certains de ces effets en milieu urbain, en lien avec la gestion de l’eau et le confort thermique, entre autres. A l’échelle européenne, les solutions fondées sur la nature sont proposées comme stratégie d’adaptation, dans les villes. Elles permettent en effet d’améliorer la gestion des eaux pluviales urbaines et le confort thermique. Elles ont d’autres bénéfices comme la santé, la cohésion sociale, la sécurité, etc. Au travers de trois projets français (VegDUD) et européens (Nature4Cities, URBiNAT), les connaissances dernièrement acquises sur les performances de différentes solutions fondées sur la nature (toitures végétalisées, noues, arbres de rue, façades végétalisées, parcs) vis-à-vis des deux enjeux gestion de l’eau et confort thermique en ville sont présentées.
Communication & Dissemination
Project Deliverables
D1.7: Dissemination package: basic set of dissemination material for the project
The URBiNAT Project was conceived from the outset as a consortium of partners where the institutions (academic, municipal and business partners) will work at different moments in conjunction with the inhabitants of the cities and neighbourhoods where the actions of regeneration and integration will be thought through an innovative and inclusive catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). This document contains information relating to the visual identity of the URBiNAT project (fonts, logos, presentation templates, business cards etc.).
D6.1: Communication and Dissemination Plan RESTRICTED
This document presents the global Communication and Dissemination Plan (CDP) for the URBiNAT project. It sets out objectives in terms of raising public awareness about the project and promoting broader engagement in its activities, and it describes the main communication channels, massaging formats, and target audiences to be reached. The CDP and related tasks and deliverables are the primary responsibility of Work Package 6 (WP6).
The URBiNAT Communication and Dissemination plan was delivered to the European Commission on 30 November 2018. It is an internal document for use by URBiNAT Consortium Members only.
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D6.2: URBiNAT Website and Newsletter RESTRICTED
This document includes the technical and design specifications for the URBiNAT website.
It is an internal document for use by URBiNAT Consortium Members only.
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Newsletters
Newsletter # 1: Launch of the URBiNAT project
Newsletter # 2: Co-creating Healthy Corridors in the midst of a global health crisis
How to co-create NBS-filled Healthy Corridors in cities across Europe in the midst of a global health crisis the societal, economic and environmental consequences of which are likely to be felt for years if not decades to come, that is the challenge faced by the URBiNAT today.