The GrowGreen project team met last week at the beautiful premises of Las Naves, a public entity linked to the municipality of Valencia that promotes urban innovation to improve people’s quality of life. Representatives of GrowGreen’s six European partner cities – Manchester, Valencia, Wroclaw, Brest, Modena and Zadar – met with partners from across Europe...

The city of Wroclaw in Poland is one of the frontrunner cities of the GrowGreen project, which is creating new high quality green spaces in order to demonstrate how nature can contribute to improving the local climate, urban water management and air quality. Green roofs, green walls and pocket parks will be designed in collaboration...

The GrowGreen cities of Wroclaw and Manchester partnered up recently to host a training session at the Open European Day of Resilient Cities 2018 on involving citizens in designing and implementing nature-based solutions. Nature-based solutions and engaging citizens in climate change adaptation were major themes at the Open European Day of Resilient Cities 2018, held...

West Gorton, Manchester, needs more green spaces, according to residents that responded to a survey conducted for GrowGreen on their uses of existing open spaces in the neighbourhood. Designing effective nature-based solutions relies on the involvement of local people. It’s important to ensure their preferences for green space are taken into account, so that the...

From 27th to 29th November, a conference of villages and cities for sustainability, called Conama Local, took place in Valencia. More than a hundred presenters from public administration, business, universities and civil society from different European countries met at Las Naves – the city’s Centre of Innovation, to share initiatives, solutions and projects to create...

There are many reasons why we need our cities to be green: to improve citizen health; to reduce flood risk; to keep us cool in ever hotter summers; to provide homes for wildlife; to clean the air we breathe, the list goes on. So, if there are so many benefits, why aren’t all our cities...