ProGIreg stands for ‘productive Green Infrastructure for post-industrial urban regeneration’: nature for renewal. For proGIreg three front-runner cities (Dortmund (DE); Turin (IT); Zagreb (HR))will create Living Labs in urban areas which face the challenge of post-industrial regeneration. These areas suffer from social and economic disadvantages, inequality and related crime and security problems. They lack quality greenspaces, have a negative impact on human health and wellbeing and are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Going beyond the current state-of-the-art with Green Infrastructure as a one-off state intervention, the proGIreg Living Labs will develop NBS which are citizen owned and co-developed by state, market and civil society stakeholders. Innovation will take place on the technical level through the NBS deployments, on the social level through co-designing, co-creating and co-implementing NBS with local communities and on the economic level through combining NBS with market-ready business models. 

Four follower cities in Eastern and Southern Europe (Cascais PT, Cluj-Napoca RO, Piraeus GR, Zenica BA) will be co-steering the research process to assure replicability and adaptability to their local context resulting in urban plans for NBS deployment. The NBS to be tested i.a. include: regenerating industrial soils biotic compounds, creating community-based urban agriculture and aquaponics and making renatured river corridors accessible for local residents.

Scientific assessment and monitoring results from the Living Labs will be made available on the EU NBS platforms OPPLA and THINKNATURE and will contribute to the European reference framework for NBS. Global impact will be achieved by a training programme for cooperative planning, implementation and management of NBS. It will be provided by partners from the cities, SMEs and universities involved. Training events will be organised in cooperation with the partner ICLEI. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) will be distributed via EdX, the most renowned MOOCs platform worldwide.

Partners

• RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN
• STADT DORTMUND
• COMUNE DI TORINO
• CITTA' METROPOLITANA DI TORINO
• ORTI GENERALI APS
• AGENZIA REGIONALE PER LA PROTEZIONE AMBIENTALE DEL PIEMONTE
• GRAD ZAGREB
• EMAC EMPRESA MUNICIPAL DE AMBIENTEDE CASCAIS EM SA
• DIMOS PEIRAIA
• ASOCIATIA DE DEZVOLTARE INTERCOMUNITARA ZONA METROPOLITANA - CLUJ
• GRAD ZENICA
• ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH)
• DIE URBANISTEN EV
• FONDAZIONE DELLA COMUNITA DI MIRAFIORI ONLUS
• MIRAVOLANTE ASSOCIAZIONE DI COMUNITA DI MIRAFIORI
• KYTTARO ENALLAKTIKON ANAZITISEON NEON (K.E.A.N)
• CITYBOTANICALS GMBH
• EUROPAISCHE FODERATION BAUWERKSBEGRUNUNGSVERBANDE - EFB
• DUAL SRL
• LOHRBERG STADLANDSCHAFTSARCHITEKTUR PARTNERSCHAFT FREIER LANDSCHAFTSARCHITEKTEN MBH
• STARLAB BARCELONA SL
• PARCO SCIENTIFICO TECNOLOGICO PER LAMBIENTE ENVIRONMENT PARK TORINO SPA
• ACEA PINEROLESE INDUSTRIALE SPA
• URBASOFIA SRL
• FUNDACION PRIVADA INSTITUTO DE SALUD GLOBAL BARCELONA
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO
• CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
• POLITECNICO DI TORINO
• FONDAZIONE LINKS - LEADING INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE FOR SOCIETY
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO
• FACHHOCHSCHULE SUEDWESTFALEN
• ZENICKA RAZVOJNA AGENCIJA ZEDA DOO
• SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU ARHITEKTONSKI FAKULTET
• ZAVOD ZA PROSTORNO UREDENJE GRADA ZAGREBA
• KOMFOR KLIMA GRUPA DOO ZA PROIZVODNJU TRGOVINU I USLUGE
• UDRUGA ZELENE I PLAVE SESVETE
• ASSOCIAZIONE ORTIALTI
• AQUAPONIK MANUFAKTUR GMBH
• NINGBO MUNICIPAL CENTER FOR FORESTRY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
• INSTITUTE OF URBAN ENVIRONMENT, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Start date: 1 June 2018 - End date: 31 May 2023