Climate-resilient reGeneration and renaturing for, by and with vulnerable neighbourhoods, striving towards net-zero − ClimaGen. The ClimaGen project will demonstrate how climate-resilient regeneration and renaturing for, by and with vulnerable neighbourhoods, can help cities and regions in their transitions towards net-zero future. Five Demonstration cities (Belgrade, Gdańsk, Tartu, Torino, and Trondheim), will implement 25% increased share of newly created and/or restored public green spaces in each city. Four Replication Cities (Cluj-Napoca, Eindhoven, Gernika and Thessaloniki) will experiment with shorter-term co-creative measures with the same objectives and methods to plan for future implementation of the measures.
Project Information
Source of funding: EU Horizon Europe programme
Project duration: 01/2025 − 12/2028
Project Website: under construction
Contact: Dobrivoje Lale Eric − dleric@cpn.rs
Coordinator
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Norway
Partners
European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), Belgium
Sintef, Norway
Th!Nk E, Belgium
Gmina Miasta Gdanska, Poland
Politechnika Gdanska, Poland
Stowarzyszenie Inicjatywa Miasto, Poland
Tartu Linn, Estonia
Tallinna Tehnikaülikool, Estonia
Institute of Baltic Studies, Estonia
Comune di Torino, Italy
Orti Generali Srl, Italy
Fondazione Links, Italy
Fondazione della Comunita di Mirafiori, Italy
Trondheim Kommune, Norway
Nyhavna Eiendom As, Norway
Foreningen Padriv Trondheim, Norway
Rosendal Internasjonale Teater, Norway
Municipiul Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Asociatia Cluster de Educatie C-Edu, Romania
Gemeente Eindhoven, Netherlands
Gernika-Lumoko Kultur Etxea, Spain
Asociacion de Industrias de es Conocimiento Y Tecnologia − Gaia, Spain
Eskilara S Koop Txikia, Spain
Anaptyxiaki Meizonos Astikis el Thessalonikis Ae, Greece
Aristotelio Panepistimio el Thessalonikis, Greece
Junior Achievement Europe, Belgium
Borsboom-Van Beurden Judith Anna Nl Maria, Netherlands
Th!Nk Europe, Belgium
Stiftung Global Infrastructure Ch Basel, Switzerland
City of Belgrade
Centre for Experiments In Urban Studies (CEUS)
Center for the Promotion of Science
Project Description
The ClimaGen project is divided into several segments and phases. ClimaGreens will nurture integrated renaturing measures that create resilience at several scales, and avoid maladaptation in the journey to climate-neutrality. ClimaLabs will provide local and regional collaborative governance, with arts, culture and youth, entrepreneurship and financing, and organisational resilience in long-term planning strategies. ClimaImpact will generate evidence-based decision support and valuation of co-benefits, in easy-to-understand and, where possible, visualised formats. ClimaValue will offer outreach, capacity building and policy guidance, with strategic advocacy together with sister projects and close collaboration with Missions and New European Bauhaus (NEB) communities, while an evidence- based ClimaGen Guidance Package will disseminate results and knowledge to cities. City Dialogues and cross-cutting Sense-Making Sessions will support local implementation and common learning. Together these define impact pathways to knowledge sharing, scaling and replication. The ClimaGen Games will tie these activities together with a portfolio of participatory, gamified, citizen-science-based methods to engage all partners and stakeholders in an inclusive manner, and to use their diversity as a strength.
The Role of CPN
The Center for the Promotion of Science will contribute to the design and development of the Belgrade pilot, providing a conceptual framework and setting up its annual art+science festival at the designated area of Belgrade, Dorćol, within the future Linear Park. CPN will provide necessary resources and open one dedicated art+science call, with a goal to produce localised interdisciplinary research project for the Festival. The programme of the Festival will be further enriched with a selection of related art-science practices, projects and educational activities. CPN will also support general communication and dissemination activities of the project, especially in regard to the Belgrade pilot.