Events


Re-thinking the Nature of Cities

2 - 3 Oct 19

Bucharest, Romania

Re-thinking the Nature of Cities

2 - 3 Oct 19

Bucharest, Romania

The ThinkNature project consortium invites you to participate in the Bucharest Forum on Nature-based Solutions (NBS). The Forum will be held from 2-3 October 2019 in Bucharest. The forum will be a lively debate with a thematic focus on (1) Cities & policies and (2) Business models & technical aspects. Each day consists out of a plenary opening, four parallel sessions and a plenary closure. Next to the parallel sessions the NBS Café will be open as break-out room for networking, informal meetings and exhibitions.

Nature-based solutions can be perceived as complicated interventions, only suitable for cities with the right legislation, governance and funding in place. The Forum will pay special attention to the role of NBS in cities in Central and East-Europe. We invite you to discuss the opportunities and challenges of the implementation of NBS in an interactive workshop setting!

CLEVER Cities will be represented by Israa H. Mahmoud, Ph.D during the first day of the forum on 2 October at 13:30, who will present the "Technical and practical aspects of NBS at urban areas". In this context, the presentation topic will be about the needed steps towards developing urban planning strategies that combine NBS interventions of different spatial scales in a city, as well as practical/technical barriers and drivers towards the completion of such NBS projects.

More information is available on the event page.