EnRoute stands for Enhancing Resilience of urban ecosystems through green infrastructure. EnRoute is a project of the European Commission in the framework of the EU Biodiversity Strategy and the Green Infrastructure Strategy. EnRoute provides scientific knowledge of how urban ecosystems can support urban planning at different stages of policy and for various spatial scales and how to help policy-making for sustainable cities. It aims to promote the application of urban green infrastructure at local level and delivers guidance on the creation, management and governance of urban green infrastructure. Importantly, it illustrates how collaboration between and across different policy levels can lead to concrete green infrastructure policy setting.
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EnRoute update 05/10/2018
EnRoute webinar with a short update of the progress of the project and a presentation of the results of the city lab of Leipzig (Dieter Rink)
Link for streaming the webinar: Play recording
Download the slides here
Make London, greener, healthier and wilder.
A nice example of a community-grassroots initiative to make London greener. This website is worth exploring to find ideas for bottom-up initiatives that you can take in your city as well.
EnRoute update
Short update:
1) We expect the reports of the city labs by 21 September. A template was distributed to all the EnRoute experts with a contract. Please contact us in case or questions of problems. Earlier delivery is encouraged so that we can share the reports within EnRoute as examples.
2) We haven’t heard back from the European Parliament about the final EnRoute event which we initially planned early December. There seems to have been a communication error between Commission and Parliament. We hope to solve this so that we can decide soon on the final event but we may have...
Stockholm integrates urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services in the new city plan
Stockholm adopted a new urban plan. Making use of the assets that the city’s green spaces represent and developing parks and areas of countryside is an intrinsic part of the plan. As Stockholm’s population grows, initiatives are needed to improve the city’s green spaces, make them more accessible and add additional new parks. The plan contains more details of how to deploy Stockholm's blue green infrastructure, create a network of habitats for specific species and enhance urban ecosystem services.
The...
Manchester wins an award for their Green & Blue Infrastructure Strategy
The CIEEM Best Practice in Knowledge Sharing Award was given to the Manchester City Council for "Manchester's Great Outdoors: A Green and Blue Infrastructure Strategy for Manchester. Congratulations to the team.
https://www.cieem.net/2018-award-winners
CIEEM is the leading professional membership body representing and supporting ecologists and environmental managers in the UK, Ireland and abroad.
4th call for proposals under the Urban Innovative Actions program
This upcoming 4th call for proposals under the Urban Innovative Actions program, on the topic of ‘Sustainable use of land & nature based solutions‘ is of high interest for EnRoute city labs, as it includes green infrastructure in cities.
http://www.uia-initiative.eu/en/sustainable-use-land-nature-based-solutions
The terms of reference for the call will be published in October 2018.
Minutes of the Biodiver-City conference in Sofia, 24 April 2018
The Joint Research Centre and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences co-organised a one day conference of urban biodiversity in Sofia on 24 April 2018. The conference received financial support from DG Environment from the European Commission. It was also a side event of the European Green Week.
A conference report is available here. It contains summaries of the plenary presentations as well as a set of key messages which...
City lab presentations of the EnRoute progress meeting in Sofia are available.
Here is a set of pdf files of the city labs. They are available for bulkdownload here.
Reports of both the Biodiver-City conference and the EnRoute progress meeting will be ready soon.
Presentations of the Biodiver-City conference on Sofia are available.
EnRoute Conference: Biodiver-City: Enhancing urban biodiversity and ecosystem services to make cities more resilient
Conference in collaboration with the Bulgarian presidency of the EU, the European Green Week and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 24 April 2018.
Plenary session 1: The importance of urban biodiversity for nature and people
- Biodiversity in cities (Prof. Axel Hochkirch, ...
Transforming cities, enhancing wellbeing: innovating with nature-based solutions
Here is a message on behalve of http://connectingnature.eu
It is my pleasure to invite you, on behalf the People-Environment Research Group and the Connecting Nature project consortium, to participate in the Horizon 2020 European Dialogue on “Transforming cities, enhancing wellbeing: innovating with nature-based solutions”, to be held in the City of A Coruña (Spain), next May 16-18, 2018. This is a joint initiative of two large-scale European projects Connecting Nature and the support...