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New MOOC – Nature-based Urban Regeneration!

New MOOC - Nature-based Urban Regeneration! MOOC = Massiv Open Online Course How can we use nature to improve life in our cities? ProGIreg is launching its first MOOC 1st of November on edX, one of the foremost massive open online course (MOOC) providers created by Harvard and MIT. The course gathers the best practices of the proGIreg Living Labs. The course will ...

Green Market Report Germany 2020

BuGG-Market Report on Building Greening 2020 Green Roofs, Green Facades and Interior Greening in Germany Excerpted translation of the original German version The German Association of Building Greening „Bundesverband GebäudeGrün e.V. (BuGG)“ has published the first BuGG-Market Report on Building Greening 2020 to present the most crucial available figures on roof, facade and interior greening in Germany. It intends to ...

Call for STSMs: The role of NBS in urban planning

Call for STSMs: The role of NBS in urban planning Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) on the topic "The role of NBS in urban planning". It is planned that candidates carry out the same work in different cities, i.e. in -Budapest, Hungary Córdoba, Spain Ljubljana, Slovenia Novi Sad, Serbia Reykjavik, Iceland Vienna, Austria Wädenswil, Switzerland. Potential candidates have to ...

Metabuilding – Cross-sectoral innovation Calls for SME´s

METABUILDING Cross-sectional and cross-border innovation ecosystem for European SME's H2020 METABUILDING (2020-2023) METABUILDING offers financial support for innovation. The METABUILDING project consortium will manage the open calls directed at SME’s that wish to engage in collaboration outside of their sector to bring innovation to the construction sector. Please follow this link to find out more information. METABUILDING target sectors. Innovation within the ...

The Swedish Green Roof Handbook

The Swedish Green Roof Handbook - a new updated version The Swedish green roof handbook is a local adaptation of the knowledge that has been gathered over many years in Sweden, Germany and other parts of the world. The idea with our handbook has been to not only point out how to do but also try to explain how and ...

Scandinavian News: The Scandinavian Green Roof Award 2020 & The Blue-Green Event

An update on past events and awards in Scandinavia The Scandinavian Green Roof Award 2020 The Green Roof Award has been given out annually to the best green roof project in Scandinavia since the award's inception in 2000, as an initiative of The City of Malmö. The award is intended to inspire the Scandinavian green roof market toward excellence and ...

New reference-project in Budapest

New reference-project in Budapest The abundant brownfield lands of Budapest possess special potential in the green infrastructure politics of the Hungarian capital. The Millenáris Széllkapu Park completed in 2019 provides an excellent example for the development of these areas. The fact alone that one of the most valuable properties of the city has been used for urban green area development ...

ÖNORM LL1136 – New standard for vertical greening

Austrian standard for vertical greening (ÖNORM L1136) New standard for vertical greening is published "The aim of the new ÖNORM is to establish and maintain sustainable greening of façades all year round, taking into account seasons, geographical and climatic location as well as the greening objective" explains Ing. Stefan Brunnauer, VfB’s Head of Technical Committee for green walls. The standard ...

GReENERGY – Greening the cities

GReENERGY The cross-border project that brings green infrastructure and green energy in urban environments The GReENERGY project, entitled "Greening the cities - Development and promotion of energy efficiency and sustainable urban environment in the cities of Croatia-Serbia cross-border region", is a project funded by the European Union through the Interreg-IPA cross-border cooperation program Croatia-Serbia 2014-2020. The total value of the ...

BuGG – Market Report on Building Greening 2020 published

BuGG – Market Report on Building Greening 2020 published Over 7.2 million square metres of new green roofs in Germany in 2019! With the “BuGG – Market Report on Building Greening 2020”, the German Association of Building Greening (Bundesverband GebäudeGrün e.V. – BuGG) publishes for the first time an overview of the most important available facts and figures on green ...