BIONEXT Case Studies

The Dartmoor Mires Project was a pilot to explore the feasibility and effects of restoring degraded areas of high quality blanket bog, using experimental techniques to reduce erosion and promote regeneration of moorland bog vegetation.

This habitat restoration project aimed to offset coastal habitat loss while reducing flood risk and transforming an area from a carbon source to sink.

The Waterevolution model develops strategic partnerships between maritime cluster companies and marine conservation.

The Carbon Landscape is a pioneering project in landscape restoration in Wigan, Warrington and Salford. Led by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, it will revitalize a landscape left devastated by decades of coal-mining and peat extraction

The 100,000 Trees Project for the Porto Metropolitan Area” intends to restore 100 hectares of urban forest with native trees.

Restructuring a public derelict land into few private vegetable and fruit gardens. The gardeners practice organic gardening making it more sustainable.

In 2017, the municipality of Sintra approved the municipal Solidarity Gardens Program, which aims at enabling the inhabitants of Sintra to "value solidarity and, in some way, value natural resources". This intervention aims to create small gardens in urban areas.

The agriparc of the Mas Nouguier is an agricultural reserve entirely maintained by the city of Montpellier. Conducted in organic agriculture, the estate contributes to the preservation of the identity of the territory and to the valorization of the living environment.

The Agrarian Park is the only one in the world so close to a large city and it promotes specific programs to preserve the productive values of the agricultural space and promotes quality local products and local consumption.

The Danube Eco-District project is Strasbourg's first eco-districy and is based on previous experimental designs in sustainable urban living (Ref. 27, 30). It is situated at the heart of the axis Deux Rives, and is thus a strategic point of the large Franco-German Deux Rives project (Ref. 28). The district will have the capacity for 20,000 residents, and will include green spaces, green roofs, insect hotels (Ref. 1), various water management facilities (ditches, swales... etc.), and composting facilities (Ref. 4). The project aims to improve biodiversity, social equality, ecology, reduce urban heating, and promote sustainable consumption

The Garden Factory ('Tuinfabriek') is an exceptional urban agriculture project on a roof of the central station that aims at becoming the largest food-producing roof of the Netherlands. The project is a self-sustaining vegetable garden located on the roof of a busy mall in the centre of Utrecht (ref. 5). On the roof, citizens, students, company employees and schools work together to grow vegetables and keep bees and chicken. The Garden Factory reflects an ecological 'self-sustaining factory' as the chickens, worms and bees 'work' in the garden as being part of the decomposing system and pollination and a system is built for rainwater retention that allows for irrigation (ref. 1). Eating, composting, sowing, growing, harvesting, cooking form the production process of this Garden Factory (ref. 4). The main elements of the roof garden are in place, such as the crop bins, the chicken coop and the decomposing machine are completed. However, it is an ongoing developing project as some elements are still in development stage such as some elements of the Soup Kitchen and the aim is to integrate the Garden Factory more with the central station shopping mall in multiple ways

The Dee Park Regeneration Project aims to rebuild the 1,100 homes from the 1960s-built estate, that has been worked on in close consultation with the community.

River restoration measures and the construction of multifunctional wetlands within the Tullstorp stream allow the storing of excess water for use during dry periods. While funding remains a challenge, the initiative was a success thanks to the strong commitment of landowners and a bottom-up, learning by doing approach.

The Attica region in Greece is working to gradually implement an adaptation strategy and action plan for the conservation of wetlands, a highly vulnerable ecosystem that suffers from increasing droughts. The improved scientific evidence on the benefits provided by wetlands is creating the conditions for their legal designation and adaptive management.

Guided by the ethics of agroecology, a Portuguese farm is implementing a food production model based on the respect for nature, aligned with the objectives of sustainable development and able to protect water resources in a drought prone area.

Massaciuccoli Lake faces vulnerability due to agricultural drainage and nutrient influx. The EU Horizon 2020 Phusicos Project employs Nature-Based Solutions to combat climate change effects, enhance ecosystem resilience, and reduce pollutants, using a participative "Living Lab" approach for innovation testing and validation.

The city of Barcelona developed the Superblock programme in 2015 to reshape the urban landscape, improve liveability and enhance citizen’s access to green space. Justice issues and the involvement a wide range of vulnerable groups were strongly considered in the decision-making process.

The RELIONMED-LIFE project in Cyprus addresses the rapid spread of invasive lionfish in the Mediterranean, impacting biodiversity, fisheries, and tourism. The project aims to control lionfish invasion through risk assessment, system citizen engagement, early detection system, removal actions and market promotion of lionfish products.

The landscape park aims to fulfil a variety of functions:The provision of recreation and educational facilities for local residents and visitors, a...

The overall objective of BEGIN is to demonstrate at target sites how cities can improve climate resilience with Blue-Green Infrastructure involving...

Biotope City is an integral concept of the Biotope City Foundation Amsterdam based on the integrative combination of Flora + Fauna +...

The Stiemervallei provides great potential to re-imagine the natural quality of a stream valley in an urban context and to balance the ecological, ...

The municipality of Pavlos Melas is located in the Northern Greece, in the Region of Central Macedonia, in the northwestern part of Thessaloniki. T...

This case study from the SINCERE project had the goal to:Introduce a payment for ecosystem services (PES) system in which forest own...

Enhancing sustainable urbanizationRestoring ecosystems and their functionsDeveloping climate change mitigationDeveloping climate change adaptation;...

Hamburg was the first major German city to launch a comprehensive Green Roof Strategy. Its goal is to green at least 70 per cent of both new buildi...

The municipality saw an opportunity in URBiNAT as a preliminary to the Global Project. The two projects indeed share the same general objectives of...

The Forest Landscape Restauration (FLR) measures will be implemented on the selected site in Gledi, due to the high risks of flood and soil er...

Implementing floodplain farming systems in multiple sites along the Tisza River, thereby making land use more sustainable and in line with nature c...

To demonstrate the potential of nature-based solutions to reduce heat stress, manage water and improve wellbeing and social cohesionTo engage local...