Case study

Soil wild bees habitats - La Citadelle Park, Lille (France)

A map pf La Citadelle Park, Lille.

Area characterisation:

Scale of the project: object (building, etc.)

Urban density in which the NbS is implemented: high (dense city center, etc.)

Objective:

  • Create pollinators shelters

Restoration of wild pollinators populations (wild bees) by creating shelters, nesting sites and meadows. The overall objective of this project is to protect and provide long term benefits to biodiversity and then to all the network linked in.

Start/end date:

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Financing:

Global (estimated) cost of the project: > 20 000€

Financing mechanism: cluster1 public financing

BUSINESS MODEL:

Business cluster: Social

Business model: Adopt a stewardship role

The aim of this project is to protect and provide long term benefits to biodiversity and then to all the network linked in.

Transferability of result:

Process enablers:

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Expected time for the NbS to become fully effective after its implementation: short (immediately to few months)

Feedback: Still well adapted

Expected life time of the intervention: more than 30 years

Dates (for project delivered): Ongoing project (2018)

Client:

Lille municipality

Design team:

  • Yohan Tison (ecologist at Lille municipality) (Project manager)

Main partners:

  • Blongios (association)
  • Entreliane (association)
  • inhabitants

GOVERNANCE MODEL:

Governance cluster: cluster5 network governance

Governance model: Collaborative_governance

Contacts:

Alice Duquesnoy (alice.duquesnoy-mitjavila@plante-et-cite.fr)

Olivier Damas

Plante & Cité (https://www.plante-et-cite.fr/)

Maison du Végétal, 26 Rue Jean Dixmeras, 49000 Angers

NBS goals:

  • Restoring ecosystems and their functions
  • Urban regeneration through nature-based solutions

NBS benefits:

  • Restoring ecosystems and their functions
  • Increase achievements of biodiversity targets
  • Increase Biodiversity
  • Increased cultural richness and biodiversity

Further information:

Nature4Cities (https://www.nature4cities.eu/) aims to develop a knowledge diffusion around Nature-Based Solution (NbS) and a decision support platform through new collaborative models.

This project is part of the Nature4Cities's pioneer case studies database, it will feed the observatory, NbS pre-selection and replication tools, gathered into the Geocluster4NBS.

This project was chosen as a pioneer case study for the following reasons: this project create ecological habitats for soil wild bees, endangered species in our cities

Nature4Cities project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 730468.