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The Helsinki Design Ladder, the first time a design ladder of this kind has been applied to an entire city.

Invitation for your city to join the Bee-friendly city movement

BeePathNet is about the transfer of Ljubljana’s BEE PATH good practice to five EU cities. But we know that several cities also have inspiring Bee Stories.

Meet the partners: interview with Paulo Simoes

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Meet the partners: interview with Francisco Martínez Cañavate

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Meet the partners: interview with Giorgos Michailidis

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KRAKOW TRANSNATIONAL MEETING – PART 2

The Covid-19 pandemic took Krakow partners to the decision of hosting online their Transnational Meeting last year but left all partners with the desire to travel to the Polish city and see with their own eyes the wonders that have been created in terms of community urban gardens. Well, the Krakow team set themselves in the quest of completing what, in their opinion, was an “unfinished business”: the possibility to welcome all partners in Krakow before the end of the project’s lifetime so that they could see what has been implemented in their city during RU:RBAN.