Healthy Cities

Visionary nature based solutions for human centered cities. Sustainable transition to smart & future cities

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Background

In an increasingly urbanising world, governments and international corporations strive to increase productivity of cities, recognized as economic growth hubs, as well as ensuring better quality of life and living conditions to citizens. Although significant effort is performed by international organisations, researchers, etc. to transform the challenges of cities into opportunities, the visions of our urban future are trending towards bleak. Social services and health facilities are significantly affected in negative ways owed to the increase in urban populations (70% by 2050). Air pollution and urban exacerbation of heat islands is exacerbating. Nature will struggle to compensate in the future city, as rural land is predicted to shrink by 30% affecting liveability.

Key project: VARCITIES

VARCITIES puts the citizen and the “human community” in the eye of the future cities’ vision. Future cities should evolve to be human centred cities. The vision of VARCITIES is to implement real, visionary ideas and add value by establishing sustainable models for increasing health and wellbeing of citizens (children, young people, middle age, elderly) that are exposed to diverse climatic conditions and challenges around Europe through shared public spaces that make cities liveable and welcoming.

The Healthy Cities Helix is an international Open Innovation community of specialists in the fields of environment, smart cities, architecture, and related disciplines. The Helix was launched as a focus for impact and dissemination services in support of the VARCITIES project's ambition to contribute to the shaping of future cities by designing and developing nature-based (NBS) solutions.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 869505.

Building the economic framework for Nature-based Solution

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Tue, Sep 26, 2023 11:00 AM - Tue, Sep 26, 2023 12:30 PM

The JUSTNature consortium is delighted to invite you to the webinar "Building the economic framework for Nature-based Solution" which will take place online on the 26th of September from 11 am to 12:30 pm CEST. This event aims to bring together different actors from the value chain of nature-based solutions, with the aim of triggering more interactions and opportunities in the economic framework of Nature-based Solution (NbS). The event is opened to academic experts, industry professionals, high-tech SMEs and future-orientated policymakers who are seeking to develop innovations in Nature-based Solution, smart cities, urban design and social justice. Why join? Gain valuable insights into Nature-based Solution start-ups, along with the co-creation experience of the local community; Engagement of Financial Actors for Collaboration: Stimulate the engagement of financial actors to collaborate and play an active role in promoting the adoption and implementation of NbS; Discover proven examples of NbS tendering models that have succeeded in creating impactful and sustainable solutions; Foster the establishment of common ground for climate policy, enabling meaningful discussions and actions to tackle climate change challenges.