VISIONARY NATURE BASED ACTIONS FOR HEALTH, WELLBEING & RESILIENCE IN CITIES (VARCITIES)

Project Information

VARCITIES

Grant agreement ID: 869505

DOI 10.3030/869505

EC signature date 23 April 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost € 10 954 903,55

EU contribution € 10 115 469,00

Coordinated by

POLYTECHNEIO KRITIS
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

Report on local barriers and drivers to the implementation of visionary solutions in pilots
Policy Report
Guidelines for sketching of solutions
Healthy Cities Helix
Common Action Plan on clustering activities
Reports on multiple benefits expected from visionary solutions
Reports on the sketched solutions

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Project website and social media accounts

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

VARCITIES H&WB platform final- live data

VARCITIES HWB platform final live data

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

A health relevant approach for assessing urban green spaces

Author(s): Aikaterini Lilli, Elisavet Tsekeri, Dionysia Kolokotsa
Published in: Discover Cities, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 3004-8311
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s44327-024-00029-z

From instrumentalization to commoning: A critical review of participation in urban nature-based solutions

Author(s): Devyn Remme, Håvard Haarstad
Published in: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022, ISSN 2624-9634
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2022.917607

Information Technologies for Real-Time Mapping of Human Well-Being Indicators in an Urban Historical Garden

Author(s): Francesco Pirotti, Marco Piragnolo, Marika D’Agostini and Raffaele Cavalli
Published in: Future Internet 14, 280, 2022, ISSN 1999-5903
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/fi14100280

Governance learning from collective actions for just climate adaptation in cities

Author(s): Mahir Yazar, Håvard Haarstad, Lene Lundøy Drengenes, Abigail York
Published in: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022, ISSN 2624-9634
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2022.932070

The influence of individual characteristics on perceived restorativeness and benefits associated with exposure to nature in a garden

Author(s): Enrico Sella; Chiara Meneghetti; Veronica Muffato; Erika Borella; Elena Carbone; Raffaele Cavalli; Francesca Pazzaglia
Published in: Frontiers in psychology, 14, 2023, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1130915

Conference proceedings (6)

GoNature AR: Air Quality & Noise Visualization Through a Multimodal and Interactive Augmented Reality Experience

Author(s): Minas Katsiokalis, Elisavet Tsekeri, Aikaterini Lilli, Konstantinos Gobakis, Dionysia Kolokotsa, Katerina Mania
Published in: IMX '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2023, Page(s) 366–369
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3573381.3597229

On the integration of nature-based solutions with digital innovation for health and wellbeing in cities

Author(s): E. Tsekeri, A. Lilli, M. Katsiokalis, K. Gobakis, A. Mania and D. Kolokotsa
Published in: 7th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech), 2022
Publisher: International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech)
DOI: 10.23919/splitech55088.2022.9854269

Analysis of Geospatial Behaviour of Visitors of Urban Gardens: Is Positioning via Smartphones a Valid Solution?

Author(s): Francesco Pirotti; Marco Piragnolo; Alberto Guarnieri; Marco Boscaro; Raffaele Cavalli
Published in: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Issue vol 1507, 2022
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94426-1_26

SIMULATING SOLAR RADIATION UNDER CANOPY USING POINT CLOUDS AND AN HEMISPHERICAL PHOTOGRAPHY SIMULATOR

Author(s): Francesco Pirotti, Marco Piragnolo, Raffaele Cavalli
Published in: GIS Ostrava 2022 – Earth Observation for Smart City and Smart Region, 2022
Publisher: GIS Ostrava
DOI: 10.31490/9788024846026-5

The “human community” in the eye of the future cities’ vision. The VARCITIES Project approach

Author(s): Elisavet TSEKERI, School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece Dionysia KOLOKOTSA, School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece Aikaterini LILLI, School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece Kurt CALLEJA, The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation University of Malta, Malta Daniela QUACINELLA, Th
Published in: 2022
Publisher: 57th ISOCARP World Planning Congress
DOI: 10.47472/cyxnhpjx

VARCITIES EU Project: Visionary Nature-Based Actions for Health, Well-Being and Resilience in Cities

Author(s): Sara Van Rompaey, Eleni Goni & Denia Kolokotsa
Published in: Design for Health. UIA 2023, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-36316-0
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36316-0_20

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

COVID-19′s Pandemic Effects on Bike Sharing Systems: A New Reality for Urban Mobility?

Author(s): Efstathios Bouhouras, Socrates Basbas, Stamatia Ftergioti, Evangelos Paschalidis, Harris Siakantaris
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue Vol. 12, 2022, annual, 2022, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: Applied Sciences
DOI: 10.3390/app12031230