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Living Lab #14 is one of the activities of the URBiNAT project - Healthy corridors as drivers of social housing neighbourhoods for the co-creation of social, environmental and marketable NBST dedicated to co-creating nature-based solutions for inclusive urban regeneration. This session will be held via Zoom, with citizens and local actors from Porto - Portugal, one of the project's front-runner cities. It is part of the ongoing co-creation of nature-based solutions in the Campanhã neighbourhood and aims to give back to citizens the final assessment of the ideas proposed for their neighbourhoods to be integrated in the implementation of the healthy corridor. A return combined with a decision proposal so that citizens living in the neighbourhood can accept or comment, in order to reach a consensus. Such approved proposals will form part of the core programme for the prior study of the healthy corridor and others will be registered and/or forwarded to other public or private initiatives already existing in the city.

This activity takes place through the Zoom platform, without compulsory registration. However, it is limited to the number of places available.
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The URBiNAT project

Ongoing since 2018, URBiNAT consists of a worldwide consortium of academic and business partners around 7 European cities (Porto, Nantes and Sofia as ‘frontrunners’; Siena, Nova Gorica, Brussels and Høje-Taastrup as followers), that will act as living laboratories to implement healthy corridor solutions. The cities will be supported by local partners, associations and research centres, and by Europe-wide centres, universities and companies. These will develop a participatory process, an NBS catalogue and a healthy corridor, while monitoring impacts, disseminating and marketing results.URBiNAT focuses on the regeneration and integration of deprived social housing urban developments through an innovative and inclusive catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), ensuring sustainability and mobilising driving forces for social cohesion. Interventions focus on the public space to co-create with citizens new urban, social and nature-based relations within and between different neighbourhoods. Taking the full physical, mental and social wellbeing of citizens as its main goal, URBiNAT aims to co-plan a healthy corridor as an innovative and flexible NBS, which itself integrates a large number of micro NBS emerging from community-driven design processes.

Coordinated by the Centre for Social Studies the project proposes new models of urban development through innovations in the public space, promotes social cohesion through living labs, constituted in the cities, and outspreads within a community of practices and transversal sharing of knowledge. It takes as model processes of experimentation and innovation of methodologies, of co-design and co-implementation, and of interaction between scientific knowledges and wisdoms from local communities.

Funding provided under the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Innovation and Research Programme.