City-centered approach to catalyze nature-based solutions through the EU Regenerative Urban Lighthouse for pollution alleviation and regenerative development

Project Information

Upsurge

Grant agreement ID: 101003818

DOI

10.3030/101003818

EC signature date 18 May 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

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

Total cost

€ 9 703 462,50

EU contribution

€ 9 320 400,00

Coordinated by

E-ZAVOD, ZAVOD ZA PROJEKTNO SVETOVANJE, RAZISKOVANJE IN RAZVOJ CELOVITIH RESITEV
Slovenia

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Website

Documents, reports (6)

Report on the selection of plant species for enhancing NBS performance on air quality and climate neutrality
5 Tailor-Made Plans for Operation of Sensing Systems at Demonstration Cities
Methodology for the evaluation of NBS for air quality and climate neutrality

Methodology for the evaluation of NBS for air quality and climate neutrality, including also other environmental, societal and economic benefits

First Report on Clustering activities
Report on the matchmaking of NBS for partner cities

Report on the matchmaking of NBS for partner cities’ specific environmental and socio-economic challenges

Report on the Sensing System Framework

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

5 Co-designed infrastructural demonstration plans

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Oral bioaccessibility trends for As, Cd, Cr, Ni, and Pb in vegetables grown in contaminated soils: A systematic review

Author(s): Jennifer Newell, Siobhan F. Cox, Rory Doherty
Published in: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems, Issue 10, 2025, ISSN 2575-1220
Publisher: Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/uar2.70009

The right fit: Acceptance of nature-based solutions across European cities

Author(s): Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider, Alice Wanner, Magdalena Feilhammer, Nina Mostegl, Kornelia Dabrowska
Published in: Landscape and Urban Planning, Issue 252, 2024, Page(s) 105189, ISSN 0169-2046
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105189

Using oral bioaccessibility measurements to refine risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in topsoils across an urban area

Author(s): Tatiana Cocerva, Matthew Robb, Ada Wong, Rory Doherty, Jennifer Newell, Ulrich Ofterdinger, Manus Carey, Mark Cave, Siobhan F. Cox
Published in: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Issue 276, 2024, Page(s) 116293, ISSN 0147-6513
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116293

Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux

Author(s): Arthur Vienne, Patrick Frings, Sílvia Poblador, Laura Steinwidder, Jet Rijnders, Jonas Schoelynck, Olga Vinduskova, Sara Vicca
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Issue 199, 2024, Page(s) 109596, ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109596

Leveraging nature for just cities: Planning nature-based solutions in Greece

Author(s): Alice Wanner, Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider, Meike Jungnickel
Published in: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Issue 106, 2025, Page(s) 128731, ISSN 1618-8667
Publisher: Urban & Fischer Verlag
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128731

Conference proceedings (1)

NEW GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EUROPEAN CITIES: MULTIPLE WAYS FOR IMPROVEMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION

Author(s): ALICE WANNER, ULRIKE PRÖBSTL-HAIDER, MAGDALENA FEILHAMMER
Published in: WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, The Sustianable City XVI, 2022
Publisher: WIT Press
DOI: 10.2495/sc220111