The working group of the Nature4cities consortium during the General Meeting in Brussels

Colouree è uno dei partner del progetto Nature4cities (go to site), un progetto finanziato dal programma europeo di ricerca e innovazione Horizon 2020, che ha l’obiettivo di creare una estesa piattaforma di riferimento per le Nature Based Solutions, offering techniques, methodologies e instruments agli attori responsabili della urban planning and renaturalization of the territory.

The project therefore has as its horizon the current environmental, social and economic challenges of our European cities.

Colouree's contribution to the Nature4cities project

Nature4Cities intende accrescere la consapevolezza sulle Nature Based Solutions, e favorire nuovi modelli collaborativi per il loro sviluppo e diffusione attraverso una piattaforma per la valutazione delle conoscenze e come supporto ai processi decisionali.

The platform will provide a repository of knowledge and some tools for evaluating the impact, benefits and costs of NBS projects, as well as for managing stakeholder participatory processes.

Il contributo di Colouree è concentrato in particolare sullo sviluppo di un modulo della piattaforma del progetto dedicato alla valutazione dell’impatto degli NBS dal punto di vista urbanistico, con un focus sulla misurazione e valutazione di 6 specifici indicatori riferiti:

• at the level of soil consumption (urban sprawl);
• the connectivity and accessibility of green spaces in urban areas;
• to urban biodiversity.

Objectives of Nature4cities

Nature4cities, a project that started at the end of 2016 and will last 4 years, has therefore set itself the following ambitious objectives:

• Promote the integration of NBS in urban and territorial planning
• Build a new and active community network based on NBS
• Offer high-quality tools to support the decision-making process aimed at the renaturalization of cities
• Implement a holistic rating system for NBS
• Develop a knowledge platform on NBS and through the sharing of Good Practices
• Propose new governance models, both economic and financial, to encourage the implementation of NBS