Title: proGIreg - productive Green Infrastructure for post-industrial urban regeneration
EU funds to the project: 10,432,512 €, out of which 896,500 € to the City of Torino (100%)
Period: 5 years (June 2018 - May 2023)
Partners: Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (DE), Stadt Dortmund (DE), Grad Zagreb (HR), The Forestry Bureau of Ningbo City (CN), Emac Empresa Municipal de Ambientede Cascais Em Sa (PT), Dimos Peiraia (EL), Asociatia de Dezvoltare Intercomunitara Zona Metropolitana - Cluj (RO), City of Zenica (BA), Iclei European Secretariat GmbH (Iclei Europasekretariat GmbH) (DE), die Urbanisten e.V. (DE), Fondazione della Comunità di Mirafiori (IT), Kyttaro Enallaktikon Anazitiseon Neaon Kean (EL), hei-tro GmbH (DE), EFB Europäische Föderation Bauwerksbegrünungsverbände (AT), DUAL (IT), Lohrberg Stadtlandschaftsarchitektur (DE), Starlab Barcelona Sl (ES), Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico per L'ambiente - Environment Park Spa (IT), Urbasofia Srl (RO), Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN), Fundacion Privada Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona (ES), Università degli Studi di Torino (IT), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IT), Politecnico di Torino (IT), Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (IT), Fachhochschule Sudwestfalen (DE), Agencija za Ekonomski Razvoj Doo (BA), Sveuciliste u Zagrebu Arhitektonski Fakultet (HR), City of Zagreb Bureau for Physical Planning (HR), Komfor Klima Grupa d.o.o. (HR), Udruga Zelene i Plave Sesvete (HR), OrtiAlti (IT), Aquaponik Manufaktur GmbH (DE)
Contact: Smart City Office and Green Department
Description: For proGIreg four front-runner cities (Dortmund (DE); Turin (IT); Zagreb (HR); Ningbo (CN)) will create living labs in urban areas which face the challenge of post-industrial regeneration. These areas suffer from social and economic disadvantages, inequality and related crime and security problems. They lack quality green spaces, have a negative impact on human health and wellbeing and are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The proGIreg living labs will develop NBS (nature based solutions) which are citizen owned and co-developed by state, market and civil society stakeholders. Innovation will take place on the technical level through the NBS deployments, on the social level through co-designing, co-creating and co-implementing NBS with local communities and on the economic level through combining NBS with market-ready business models. Five follower cities in Eastern and Southern Europe (Cascais (PT), Cluj-Napoca (RO), Piraeus (EL), Zenica (BA)) will be co-steering the research process to assure replicability and adaptability to their local context resulting in urban plans for NBS deployment. The NBS to be tested include: regenerating industrial soils biotic compounds, creating community-based urban agriculture and aquaponics and making renatured river corridors accessible for local residents.