Project description
Urban ecosystem renewal in EU and CELAC cities
The EU-funded CONEXUS project will co-produce, structure and promote access to contextualised knowledge by co-creating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to support the restoration of urban ecosystems. Cities in Europe and Latin America share urgent global-local challenges to integrate practical actions with strategies to achieve greater inclusion, biodiversity, climate change adaptation and environmental quality. CONEXUS brings together community, private, public and research partners to experiment with novel co-production methods to deliver NBS innovations in ‘Life-Lab’ pilots, using a place-based approach to solve problems together with citizens (in São Paulo, Bogotá, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Barcelona and Turin). The combined palette of socio-cultural, ecological and governance contexts presents the opportunity to move forward faster together, and to inform changes in urban policy and practice.
Objective
Cities and regions in Europe (EU) and Community of Latin American & Caribbean States (CELAC) face shared and urgent global-local challenges to integrate practical actions with strategies to achieve greater inclusion, biodiversity, climate change adaptation and environmental quality. Many cities share problems of landscape fragmentation caused by rapid growth, urban sprawl and economic restructuring. Poorly planned urbanisation leaves a legacy of cities lacking the green areas needed for ecosystems to provide the services essential to human life. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have the potential to help reverse these trends, and our combined EU-CELAC palette of socio-cultural, ecological and governance contexts represents a huge opportunity to move forward - faster, together. CONEXUS will co-produce, structure and promote access to the shared, contextualised knowledge needed to support cities and communities to co-create NBS, and to restore urban ecosystems, to help drive the required step-change in urban policy and practice in EU and CELAC countries. It adopts a planetary health perspective: healthy landscapes and ecosystems are vital to support human life, and humanity must restore, create and care for these landscapes and ecosystems in a reciprocal, ongoing and iterative relationship. This transdisciplinary project uses nature-based thinking (NBT) to bring together community, private, public and research partners to meet this challenge, and experiments with novel co-production methods to deliver NBS innovations in ‘Life-Lab’ pilots. The project’s core concept is to co-create context-appropriate NBS for ecosystems restoration and sustainable urbanisation in CELAC and EU cities, using a place-based approach (place-making, place-keeping and place-prescribing), solving problems together with citizens. The CONEXUS cities are: in CELAC - São Paulo, Bogotá, Santiago and Buenos Aires; and in the EU - Lisbon, Barcelona and Turin.
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.5. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.5.4. - Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
- H2020-EU.3.5.1. - Fighting and adapting to climate change
- H2020-EU.3.5.2. - Protection of the environment, sustainable management of natural resources, water, biodiversity and ecosystems
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
S10 2TN Sheffield
United Kingdom
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Participants (33)
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
01011 100 Sao Paulo
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
750 07 Uppsala
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5071 BH Udenhout
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79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
571 Bogota
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50121 Florence
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1100-365 Lisboa
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1600 189 Lisboa
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10 Santiago
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80333 Muenchen
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05508 900 Sao Paulo Sp
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C1425FQB Buenos Aires
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1053 Buenos Aires
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2511 CJ 's-Gravenhage (Den Haag)
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
623 30 BURGSVIK
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
6708 PB Wageningen
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08040 Barcelona
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08193 Bellaterra
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1002 City Of Buenos Aires
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00153 Roma
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250002 Bogota
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7510041 Providencia
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15782 Santiago De Compostela
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550173 Sibiu
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
8320000 Santiago
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1650 San Martin
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10122 Torino
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
10122 Torino To
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15067 Lima
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40476 Düsseldorf
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01419100 Sao Paulo
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Bogota
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111071 BOGOTA
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