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Biodiversity in cities depends on pollinators as much as on responsible residents

Without bees 75% of our food plants would not yield any fruits at all, there would be a major economy loss in crop production, wildflowers would not ripen seeds and biodiversity would drastically decrease. Numerous great initiatives started lately to protect bees and their pollinator counterparts – they deserve our support as they also help us.

To support cities administration initiative on biodiversity preservation and to show them diverse good practices on how to involve their citizens, institutions and economy to play active role in it BeePathNet cities developed Guidelines – The evolution steps toward a Bee friendly city supported with good practices.

The second newsletter is all abuzz about Biodiversity

With this newsletter, we begin a series of theme dedicated newsletters, each linked to one of our partner cities.

This issue is all about biodiversity in cities which depends on pollinators as much as on responsible residents. This theme is in the hands of Osijek (Croatia) and was discussed in depth on our partnership thematic meeting in November 2021. You can also read all about it, find out what took place since the last newsletter was issued and what will be going on in our partner cities in the next few months and in the process learn a thing or two about bees.

Lifestyle, Sports, and Healthy Cities with Mélanie Duparc

The Healthy Cities Network aims to deepen the relationship between health and the urban environment, following a holistic approach by focusing on three overarching topics: greening and landscaping, mobility and connectivity, and lifestyle and sports.

Bees are knocking at your door!

Bees are knocking at your door!

CO4CITIES - 3rd Transnational Meeting, Budapest, November 25-26, 2021

The Third Transnational Meeting was hosted by the city of Budapest in the mornings of 25 and 26 November 2021.

Think infrastructures in context: human ecosystems - by Bahanur Nasya

We often wonder why some infrastructure projects are loved and cherished by citizens while others aren’t. It’s not only the quality of the project that determines its success but the acceptance it receives from citizens as well. Change is often only possible when a community gets behind a project, owns the solutions, lives the change and actively adopts the proposed solution to their reality. However, community-led solutions are difficult to achieve, especially if the proposed solution is too new and has little grassroots support. The mechanisms of ecosystem building come in useful under such circumstances to help yield positive involvement.