Manchester’s West Gorton neighbourhood now has a new climate resilient park, one of GrowGreen’s demonstration projects. The park is designed with nature-based solutions to ‘drink’ and absorb rainwater, reducing flood risk in the surrounding area. The local residents, including elderly people and schoolkids, helped to design the park, which includes areas for people to meet...

The GrowGreen team in Modena is working on designs for nature-based treatment of canal waters from the urbanised eastern area of the city. The proposed nature-based solutions are being used for the first time by the City of Modena and the public-private partnership that manages water for the city. The project aims to reduce flood...

As part of GrowGreen, a new green roof has been installed on the Benicalap Senior Centre in Valencia, providing benefits for health and for the environment. The project, managed by the City of Valencia in collaboration with the Las Naves Innovation Centre, is part of GrowGreen’s ‘Més Verd Benicalap’ (Greener Benicalap) initiative. Més Verd Benicalap...

Working on nature-based solutions requires partnerships and collaborations across the many municipal departments and external stakeholders involved, such as departments responsible for green spaces, stormwater/flood management, highways, health and many others. However, when each department has its own culture and way of working, it can be difficult to build partnerships between them. This online training...

GrowGreen has released a new compendium of nature-based and grey solutions to common challenges related to climate and water management in cities. According to a market analysis conducted as part of the GrowGreen project, significant barriers that prevent the wider deployment of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) in European cities include the lack of familiarity with NBS...

As part of the GrowGreen project, Valencia’s city council has installed a vertical garden in one of the city’s public schools to improve temperature regulation and sound isolation. The initiative contributes to mitigating the “urban heat island effect”, which is a process in which temperatures in cities rise by about 2°C compared to surrounding areas....