Go Green Routes

Project

2020 – Present

Spain, Germany, Malta, China, Mexico, Georgia, France, Sweden, Estonia, Ireland, Finland, Bulgaria

What we are doing

Resilient Optimal Urban natural, Technological and Environmental Solutions | GoGreenRoutes is a €10.5m EU-funded project sowing the seeds for increased nature-connectedness across Europe, Latin America and China. Its multidisciplinary consortium of 40 organisations is pairing participatory approaches and citizen science with Big Data analyses and digital innovation to co-create “Urban Well-being Labs” in six “Cultivating Cities”: Burgas (Bulgaria), Lahti (Finland), Limerick (Ireland), Tallinn (Estonia), Umeå (Sweden) and Versailles (France). These pioneering cities are implementing “nature-based solutions” such as green corridors, linear parks, pocket parks and shared walkways to enhance the physical and mental health of their urban residents. By maximizing the available public space people can move around the city more actively, enjoy their free time and interact with others, whilst there is also room for restoring ecologically valuable spaces.

What we are achieving

ICLEI is majorly responsible for the communication and dissemination activities within the project. Apart from that main role, ICLEI will also be involved in reviewing existing approaches to collaboration in research, ICLEI together with other partners will help define the locations of the Urban Well-being Labs, analyse these areas in terms of existing challenges and potential for improvement, as groundwork for selecting and implementing locally-appropriate NBS interventions by establishing and maintaining the framework for collaboration.ICLEI ES will lead a workshop with all Cultivating Cities, to establish and maintain a basis for collaboration, agreement on values, aims, rules, and strategies to deal with possible obstacles. ICLEI is also involved in the stakeholder mapping process and in supporting to Co-create and Co-Implement Local NBS for Nature-Based Health Benefits.

ICLEI Europe

Focus areas

Health, Nature-based solutions, Research

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