Empower, Enhance, Protect: NBSINFRA Paving the Way for Resilient Urban Futures
Sections:
Boost local urban infrastructure resilience against hazards by collaboratively designing, monitoring, and creating through Nature-Based Solutions, paving the way to a sustainable and resilient society.
Objectives
Demonstrate the technical viability and effectiveness of Nature-Based Solutions as powerful defenders for safeguarding critical infrastructures and enhancing urban resilience
Innovate a methodology to evaluate how specific natural ecosystems respond to various hazards
Foster community engagement, empower decision-making, and drive commitment to results
Develop a toolkit for community empowerment
Share best practices to expand and scale-up NBS across the EU
Highlight that NBS are not just socially acceptable and budget-friendly at the local scale, but can also potentially increase community empowerment
Methodology
An NBSINFRA toolkit will be created by using the lessons learned and observing the generated tools in the first part of the project.
The toolkit’s design will involve active collaboration with end users, with a focus on ensuring social acceptance and fostering empowerment.
By combining insights from a broad perspective, together with information at a local level, NBSINFRA will provide friendly recommendations and educational material for stakeholders.
Impacts
Ensured resilience for vast interconnected systems infrastructures against chaos – whether from pandemics, complex attacks, or the unpredictable forces of nature, and humanity
Enhanced infrastructure protection systems to enable quick, slick, and secure responses to challenges, minimizing the need for substantial human interventions. This includes improved risk assessment to fortify the resilience and strategic autonomy of European infrastructure
Smart city protection by soaking up lessons from safeguarding infrastructure and systems
Consortium
At the forefront of this effort is a dynamic consortium led by Universidade do Minho in Portugal, bringing together experts from diverse fields, including climate science, disaster risk management, infrastructure resilience, nature-based solutions, and adaptation measures.
It’s made up of 18 partners from 10 different countries.
Universidade do Minho (UMINHO)
Research Driven Solutions Limited (RDS)
Technische Hochschule Koln (THK)
Municipio De Aveiro (CMA)
Agency For Sustainable Development And Eurointegration - Ecoregions (ASDE/Ecoregions)
Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke V Praze (CVUT)
University College Dublin, National University Of Ireland, Dublin
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV (Fraunhofer)
Fondazione Icons (ICONS)
Ecoten Urban Comfort S.R.O. (Ecoten S.R.O.)
Larochelle Universite (LRU)
Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas (VILNIUS TECH)
Fingal County Council (Fingal)
Universita Ta Malta (UOM)
Geodesign Hub Pvt. Limited (GHD)
United Nations Educational Scientific And Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI (AUTH)
Obshtina Ruse (Ruse)
Funded by
the European Union