The power of plain science

How could independent Research Organizations contribute to the development of local jobs and skills agendas? Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project

This is the web-article No. 7 of the GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, an initiative of the City of Vantaa (FI) to develop an innova...

Urban Growth-GSIP Vantaa - Growth and Social investment Pacts for Local Companies in City of Vantaa

Jobs and skills in the local economy

Vantaa - Finland

Jobs and skills in the local economy
Ferran Dalmau

Zoom-in: Interview to Ferran Dalmau, MSc on Wildland Fire Science and Integrative Management, Medi XXI CEO

In this Zoom-in we summarize the conversation that we had with Ferran on less visible yet important aspects of the GUARDIAN project. During the interv...

GUARDIAN - Green Urban Actions for Resilient fire Defence of the Interface Area

Climate adaptation

Riba-roja de Túria - Spain

Climate adaptation
wood construction, wood crisis, eco-housing

Not a worm this time: a virus and the wood sector

How can a global sanitary crisis affect a single construction project in Budapest? A taste of the housing crisis in 2021 in Budapest: “The renta...

E-Co-Housing - Co-creating a Regenerative Housing Project Together with the Community

Housing

Budapest - Hungary

Housing
Source: Kairos Events

AirQon Zoom-in 2: The challenge of addressing a community

The objective of this Zoom-in 2 is to delve into the role that the community plays in AIRQON as a crowd powered solution. This is not performed from a...

AirQon - Air Quality through EV Battery Connectivity

Air quality

Breda - The Netherlands

Air quality
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Moran, visits the GUARDIAN project, the largest forest fire infrastructure in Europe

The Secretary's of State for the Environment visit to the GUARDIAN project

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, accompanied by the Government Delegate, Gloria Calero, visited the largest firefighting infras...

GUARDIAN - Green Urban Actions for Resilient fire Defence of the Interface Area

Climate adaptation

Riba-roja de Túria - Spain

Climate adaptation
WESH Heerlen

We.Service.Heerlen (WESH): Journal 2

WESH Journal no. 2 describes the progress of the We.Service.Heerlen project as of October 2021. That means WESH is halfway the three years project per...

WESH – We.Service.Heerlen

Digital transition

Heerlen - The Netherlands

Digital transition
Mosses

Biomonitoring: An alternative way to monitor air pollution in Portici

AIR-HERITAGE aims to improve the City of Portici’s knowledge on local air pollution so that the city can more effectively address this issue. More spe...

AIR-HERITAGE - Improving the environmental quality of the City of Portici: Monitoring, Modelling, and Mitigating Air Pollution through participated and efficient Policies

Air quality

Portici - Italy

Air quality
plants growing in wall

GreenQuays Journal 2: Progress on tackling the major implementation challenges

The second Journal of GreenQuays explores how the project continues to deal with the seven major implementation challenges of innovative projects....

GreenQuays - Urban River Regeneration through Nature Inclusive Quays

Sustainable use of land and nature based solutions

Breda - The Netherlands

Sustainable use of land and nature based solutions
Interview participants

GreenQuays Zoom-in 1: Making Breda’s nature-inclusive quays health-inclusive

The GreenQuays project in Breda aims to develop and establish nature-inclusive quays. Although it was not in focus when developing the project, this Z...

GreenQuays - Urban River Regeneration through Nature Inclusive Quays

Sustainable use of land and nature based solutions

Breda - The Netherlands

Sustainable use of land and nature based solutions

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