Action Cluster 5 – Sustainable Built Environment meeting

This meeting launches a new Initiative on nature-based cities. One of the projects presented during this session is the VARCITIES – visionary nature-based actions for health, well-being and resilience in cities – that puts citizens and the “human communities” at the centre of future cities’ vision. It connects nature-based solutions to culture and scalable monitoring for evaluation and replicability of the project. Eight Pilot Cities (Skelleftea, Bergen, Dundalk, Castelfranco, Novo Mesto, Gzira, Chania and Leuven) will test and implement a series of innovative nature-based actions.
It is followed by a presentation about the Lyon Confluence district – a living lab for EU smart cities projects. The goal of this project is to double the size of the Lyon city centre. Other topics of the session include the incorporation of nature into cities and how this will positively influence biodiversity.