TF4 February Meeting Notes

Agenda

• Introductions

• Announcements

  • Project updates

    • CLEVER Cities Final Conference

    • Urban Green up Ending in May, final event end of March. International event March 29th in Spain. Can TF partners help disseminate the event? Cards etc. will be ready soon. 

      • Event will take place in Valladolid at Real Colegio Seminario de los Padres Agustinos, on Wednesday, March 29th 2023.

      • Upcoming webinar (February 22nd) on 'Developing KPI and data collection program for the NbS implementation and monitoring' and the focus will be on the KPI selection process and the procedures behind data collection , including testimonials from our frontrunner cities of Liverpool, Izmir and Valladolid. Registration link: https://www.urbangreenup.eu/news--events/news/urban-greenup-webinar-on-developing-kpi-and-data-collection-program-for-the-nbs-implementation-and-monitoring.kl

    • CLEARINGHOUSE: launched a call for cities to join group to develop NbS. Additionally, new videos about case study cities that can be circulated. 

      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1FW5l_ET1o Krakow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsTIC916C7c Barcelona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WgojJqY67w

      • https://clearinghouseproject.eu/2023/01/24/launch-second-call-the-projects-knowledge-exchange-mechanism/ You can share on Twitter https://twitter.com/CLEARINGHOUSE_/status/1617854835734286336 LInkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7023620530108825600

    • GoGreenRoutes–3,30,300 study, Media kit also available

    • NbS EduWORLD, education hub connecting NbS projects via education opportunities and knowledge transfer/management

      • https://ppmi.lt/news-insights/ppmi-kicks-new-horizon-europe-funded-project-nbs-eduworld-nature-based-solutions-education-network 

  • (Collaboration) opportunities

    • https://www.ecca2023.eu/: Call for proposals Deadline 23:59 (CET), Monday, February 27, 2023.

      • Should we do one on the videos?

    • Call for experts

    • Don’t forget to register for our March 2nd TF meeting!

•  NetworkNature #Naturefact social media campaign

  • Add your short & quantifiable (NEEDS TO HAVE NUMBERS) environmental facts in the excel at the bottom

  • Mark new entries with yellow

  • Do not delete existing entries or change the order

  • Include a link to the logo or send via email to susanna.gionfra@iucn.org

  • Example

• NetworkNature project repository – add your project for exploitation and dissemination – contact james@oppla.eu for guidance

  • People have tried to upload, but some have been unsuccessful. When you set up a project page, you can choose who has admin abilities. Email James if you have questions or issues

• TF Video update and next steps

  • Full NbS co-creation videos on drive - download them soon (they might be deleted to open up space) – share via all channels #cocreation #naturebasedsolutions tag @NetworkNatureEU – share primarily via Youtube to get traction for video

  • A dedicated social media campaign once all videos out in early 2023

    • (See example for template)

  • What are NbS video online

  • What types of NbS video to be finalised in late March

  • Multisource is missing 

• Upcoming Newsletter (March)

  • content to contribute?

• What do you want from this TF?

  • Trainings? Joint outputs?

  • Do we need a training on the project repository/back end of the website?

  • Spent a few meetings talking about NbS messaging, some of the issues, some of the ways the term is being misused. Could we lead this conversation a bit more? What do we mean by NbS? 

• Taskforce meeting March 2: Register Here