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ARCHETHICS at Buzludzha Festival 2024: memories of the future in the heart of Bulgaria mountains

Meet Sinead Mc Donnell, one of Ireland's Local Authority Biodiversity Officers!

Urban biodiversity as a category refers to the variety of living organisms as well as the multiplicity of habitats in and around dense human settlements. The conservation work to mitigate biodiversity loss is more or less the same in the city and outside of urban areas, however, some sub-themes such as awareness-raising, mitigating the heat-island effects and other urban disaster risks, green infrastructure and the fight against invasive species make the urban aspects important within biodiversity conservation. The most important thing is that cities offer unique opportunities for learning and education about a resilient and sustainable future and have a large potential to boost innovations and governance tools.

Clermont Innovation Week 2024 under the banner of gender equality

The Clermont Innovation Week (CIW) was back from 2 to 11 April 2024. This week of events, coordinated by Clermont Auvergne Metropole, puts the spotlight on science and innovation, with a rich program of over 50 events: conferences, exchanges and experiments on subjects ranging from deeptech to social innovation.
For this 7th edition, with regards to the Urbact program FEMACT-cities, the CIW was placed under the banner of gender equality as a transversal theme running through the entire program.

International Biodiversity Day Celebrated in Sarajevo: Interactive Lecture, Planting, and Intergenerational Gathering

Sarajevo, May 22, 2024 – As part of the Urbact program and the "BiodiverCity" project, sponsored by the European Union, the City of Sarajevo organized the celebration of International Biodiversity Day. The event took place at the School for Vocational Education and Training, Azize Šaćirbegović 80, and gathered a large number of participants, including the ULG coordinator, ULG members, employees of the Sarajevo City Sustainable Development Service, the Center for Healthy Aging, school students, and citizens.

Small Scale Co-creation Action in Kavala, Greece

How can municipalities be facilitators of local green transition? 💚 🌱 🏙 

".. There are no linear processes when municipalities function as facilitators instead of doers and co-create with local residents..." 

Meet our partner IO CHATZIVARYTI from the Municipality of Kavala, who talks about the co-creation process of transforming an unused and unsafe park into a cozy meeting place for the local community's green activities and gatherings.

The URBACT network COPE consists of 8 European municipalities, working to engage the local community in the green transition. 

COPE has just held the third network meeting - this time we were in Kavala, Greece, where we learned more about how the Municipality of Kavala is working to engage the local community in the green transition. It was a very inspiring and educational trip for all partners. 💪 

Watch the video and read more on https://lnkd.in/d6baqfPZ 

The bird-watching station

The bird-watching station with an experiential platform is an educational and pedagogical structure along the Dravinja Learning Path, which is part of the Municipality of Poljčane's vision towards biodiversity development (BiodiverCity). The bird-watching station is a charming outdoor classroom with partially obscured views of the surrounding nature. In the series of wooden slats, designed to resemble riverbank reeds, there are interactive didactic tools for learning through play. On the platform, elevated above the Dravinja floodplain, there are thematic carousels about animals and plants along the river, which rhythmically continue into the bird-watching station and culminate in an imaginary riverbed. Learning through play during a pleasant walk in nature attracts both the young and the young at heart to explore and observe the world around them.