The new Espai Verd Benicalap (Green Space Benicalap), located in the Benicalap neighborhood in València, has been inaugurated with an open day for citizens. This project is one of the winners of the recent Collaborative Green Initiatives Contest, an ideas contest organised as part of GrowGreen. The contest is developed in Benicalap and aims to...

On 10th November, GrowGreen hosted a training session for the urban planning department in the GrowGreen city of Modena, as well as other internal and external stakeholders. The training session focused on the implementation of nature-based solutions in existing urban infrastructure, in order to solve problems such as heavy rainfall, flooding, and the urban heat...

Many nature-based solutions (NBS) can be used to solve urban challenges and each one offers different co-benefits and can be used in different contexts. They can be used alone, in combination, or integrated with grey infrastructure. Matching the solutions to the problems experienced in a particular place can be challenging. This short webinar on 2nd...

The new West Gorton Community Park in Manchester, UK, is designed as a park that drinks water, aiming to reduce flood risk and providing a multitude of benefits for local residents. This video gives an eco-tour of the park, explaining some of its key features: West Gorton Community Park has several key features that aim...

Through GrowGreen, Valencia City Council has recently put a project out to tender for creating a new sustainable forest in the Benicalap-Ciutat Fallera neighbourhood of the city. The forest will join and extend the existing Benicalap Park. The site for the new forest is ideal – in recent years, it has only been used as...

A plethora of nature-based solutions are now in place in the GrowGreen cities – from a park that drinks water in Manchester, to a green street in Wroclaw, and a green roof in Valencia – and yet more are to come. In Brest, a floodable park is nearing completion, which will give local people and...