Spreading awareness of nature-based solutions
ProGIreg has focused on testing and innovating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to rejuvenate post-industrial landscapes and integrate Nature into daily life in its Front Runner Cities and Follower Cities. Based on evaluations of NBS implementations in Front Runner Cities, the Follower Cities (Cascais, Cluj-Napoca, Piraeus, and Zenica) developed context-specific NBS replication strategies for neighborhood regeneration, tailored to diverse investment priorities, urban conditions, and community needs. These sustainable urban plans have validated the adaptability and transferability of the NBS for urban regeneration and community empowerment. ProGIreg's replication process demonstrates NBS replication capacities, inspiring and enabling cities to engage in co-designing NBS strategies and green interventions, guiding them in collaboratively transforming urban spaces using NBS.
Replication
Replication workshops are organised for city staff, the private sector, civil society and other relevant stakeholders from both within and outside of the project, to facilitate knowledge transfer, exploitation and create a community of practice.
Co-creating roadmap and regeneration strategies in follower cities
Follower cities will build on the evidence and knowledge base generated in the front-runner cities, to develop their own local
urban plans for replicating and adapting nature-based solutions to suit their local settings.
Replication strategy deliverables
Roadmap towards urban planning in Follower Cities (D2.6)
This report provides a replication methodology to support proGIreg Follower Cities, throughout the process of developing Urban Plans. The Urban Plans will represent tailor-made strategies, co-created together with local stakeholders that will support and facilitate the implementation of NBS at local level.
Report on the Follower Cities' stakeholder set-up (D2.7)
This report provides an overview of the first process steps towards the development of Urban Plans in the four proGIreg Follower Cities. DOWNLOAD
Mid-term report on the implementation process of the urban plans in Follower Cities (D2.8)
This report documents process results in each Follower City over the course of 2022, following the methodology developed in D2.6 and D2.7. The will contribute to the development of final Urban Regeneration Plans in each Follower City.
Report on the final Urban Plans in Follower Cities (D2.9)
The report on provides a comprehensive overview of the final output and results (Urban Plans) of the Follower cities’ (FC) 2-year replication process of nature-based solutions. DOWNLOAD
Dissemination & networking
Through the project website, social media and press work, scientific publications and the organisation of and attendance at conferences and other public events, proGIreg partners share their learnings, project updates and results, and spread awareness of the benefits of nature-based solutions. The ultimate aim, through effective communication and dissemination work, was to increase the uptake of proGIreg nature-based solutions models and approaches among key target audiences, including the local citizens, civil society, policy-makers, academia and the private sector.
Policy Brief: Replicating nature-based solutions to revitalise post-industrial landscapes
Read the policy brief with policy recommendations for scaling up and replicating nature-based solutions:
Read the proGIreg project flyer:
Final proGIreg conference
13-14 September 2023
Read the conference programme
View the posters displayed during the conference:
Communication, dissemination & exploitation deliverables
Kick-off conference (D6.1)
This report provides an overview of the programme and contents of the proGIreg kick-off conference in Dortmund, 25-26 September 2018.
Website (D6.2)
A report on the key features, intentions and plans for future development of the proGIreg website.
Project corporate design (D6.3)
This document presents the proGIreg corporate design and provides guidance on consistent use of design elements.
Replication Process & Analysis Report (D6.7)
This report summarizes key outcomes of the two rounds of replication workshops held in the three Front-Runner Cities (Dortmund, Zagreb and Turin) from February 2022 to August 2022. It also provides recommendations for the successful replication of NBS in other districts or cities.
Mid-term Conference (D6.8)
This report provides an overview of the proGIreg Mid-Term Conference activities, marking the first two years of the project.
MOOC 1st run (D6.10)
A report on the first version of the MOOC 'Nature-based Urban Regeneration' on the global e-learning platform edX.
Communication and dissemination (D6.16)
This plan describes the final version of the framework and procedures to be used for effective communication and dissemination work within proGIreg.
MOOC 2nd run (D6.17)
This report provides an overview of the 2nd run of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Nature based Urban Regeneration” on the leading global e-learning platform edX .
Final MOOC (D6.18)
This report provides an overview of The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Nature based Urban Regeneration” EdX MOOC. It is a synthesis of methods developed and applied in the proGIreg Living Labs of the four FRC and key outcomes.
Open-access learning - proGIreg MOOC
The proGIreg Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Nature-based urban regeneration” is open-access and available via edX. Themes covered range from the co-design of nature-based solutions to their implementation and management. The course lasts eight weeks and certifications are available. Explore the course details here and watch the trailer!
Scientific dissemination
Below is selection of scientific publications based on or referencing proGIreg:
November 2023: Land (MDPI)
Clustering Business Models of Heterogeneous Nature-Based Solutions Implementing Innovative Governance and Financing Concepts
September 2023: Rethinking Urban Transformations
(Springer)
An Integrated Framework for Transforming Cultural Landscapes Through Innovative and Inclusive Strategies
September 2023: Sustainability (MDPI)
Holistic Business Model Conceptualisation - Capturing Sustainability Contributions Illustrated by Nature-Based Solutions
July 2023: International journal of environmental research and public health (Elsevier)
Nature-based solutions in post-industrial sites: integrated evaluation of atmospheric pollution abatement and carbon uptake in a German city
September 2022: Open Living Lab Days Conference 2022 (European Network of Living Labs)
How to ensure a long-term perspective for Nature Based Solutions? The case of proGIreg Living Lab in Turin
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Butterfly conservation and social inclusion in Turin.
June 2021: Sustainability (MDPI)
Integrating Circular Bioeconomy and Urban Dynamics to Define an Innovative Management of Bio-Waste: The Study Case of Turin
March 2021: Circular Economy and Sustainability
(Springer)
Urban Living Labs, Circular Economy and Nature-Based Solutions: Ideation and Testing of a New Soil in the City of Turin Using a Multi-stakeholder Perspective
March 2021: Applied Sciences (MDPI)
Constructed Technosols: A Strategy toward a Circular Economy
October 2020: Water (MDPI)
Addressing Challenges of Urban Water Management in Chinese Sponge Cities via Nature-Based Solutions
2019: SEB 2019 Conference (Institute of Physics Publishing)
Examining the opportunities for nature-based solutions at the Municipality of Piraeus
