From tiny forests to climate gardens – RealUrbanGreen tests solutions where people and nature co-create the future.
The RealUrbanGreen project has selected 8 pilot sites – from large cities like Sarajevo, Rome, and Valencia, to smaller municipalities like Locorotondo and Cuba (Portugal), to test an integrated and participatory model for transforming urban green spaces (UGS) into powerful tools for sustainability.
Each pilot faces different environmental and social challenges—urban heat, water scarcity, biodiversity loss, or disconnection between citizens and nature—but they all share the goal of developing co-created, evidence-based solutions. Using a step-by-step process involving citizen science, co-design workshops, and territorial management agreements, the pilots will test how UGS can become more inclusive, climate-adaptive, and ecosystem-service rich.
The project capitalises on existing tools and practices from past EU projects (like URWAN, GREENGAGE, HuMuS, Street for Citizens) and goes further by integrating social, ecological, and climate-related dimensions into a single replicable model. Ultimately, RealUrbanGreen will generate practical guides, policy tools, and participatory processes that local authorities across the Mediterranean can adopt to turn their own green spaces into shared platforms for sustainability.
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