URBREATH – Urban greening and re-naturing for urban regeneration, resilience and climate neutrality

URBREATH is an international project whose central idea is to prevent and reduce the effects of climate change in urban environments. The aim is to find ways and solutions to make urban environments better adapted to climate change, and one part of the solution is to increase public green spaces and urban biodiversity. The challenges posed by climate change in urban environments are very different across Europe. While southern Europe is experiencing drought, the Arctic regions, including the Nordic countries, are facing problems with increased and more frequent rainfall.
URBREATH aims to develop, implement, demonstrate, validate and replicate a comprehensive urban revitalization methodology based on community and stakeholder participation focusing on greening and renaturing issues.
 
This process will be supported by advanced technologies that the project will further develop and test. In fact, the project will use techniques such as local digital twins and artificial intelligence, and social innovation to achieve its vision.
 
The climate neutrality paradigm is at the core of this methodology which aims at regenerating deprived and abandoned areas, brownfields and other problematic sites through physical transformations of the built environment and renaturing interventions that will radically enhance social interactions, inclusion, equitability and liveability in cities.