Funded by: European Commission
Funding Programme: HORIZON 2020
Programming Period: 2014-2020
Project Title: COproductioN with NaturE for City Transitioning, INnovation and Governance
Acronym: CONNECTING
Duration: 2017- 2021
Total Budget: €13.086.850
Partnership:
1. THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN (Ireland) – Lead Partner
2. stad Genk (Belgium)
3. GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL (United Kingdom)
4. MIASTO POZNAN (Poland)
5. Ayuntamiento de A Coruna (Spain)
6. Citta Metropolitana Di Bologna (Italy)
7. Obshtina Burgas (Bulgaria)
8. Municipality of Ioannina (Greece)
9. Empresa Municipal De Iniciativas Y Actividades Empresariales De Malaga SA (Spain)
10. Nicosia Development Agency (ANEL)
11. Municipality of Pavlos Melas (Greece)
12. Sarajevska Regionalna Razvojna Agencija Serda Doo Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
13. Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (Armenia)
14. Dutch Research Institute for Transitions BV (Netherlands)
15. University of East London (United Kingdom)
16. Universidade Da Coruna (Spain)
17. Humboldt-Universitaet Zu Berlin (Germany)
18. Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza W Poznaniu (Poland)
19. University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin ( Ireland)
20. Universitatea De Vest Din Timisoara (Romania)
21. ABU International Project Management Limited (Ireland)
22. Bioazul ( Spain)
23. Climate Alliance-Klima Buendnis – Alianza Del Clima e.V (Germany)
24. HELIX PFLANZEN GMBH (Germany)
25. ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH)*(Germany)
26. TTI-Technologie-Transfer-Initiative GmbH (Germany)
27. GIS and RS Consulting Center GeoGraphic (Germany)
28. URBANISTICNI INSTITUT REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE (Slovenia)
29. Countryscape (United Kingdom)
The overarching objective of CONNECTING is to position Europe as a global leader in the innovation and implementation of nature-based solutions. The project partners will form a community of cities fostering peer-to-peer, transdisciplinary capacity-building between front-runner, fast-follower and multiplier cities within a ‘transitioning, innovation and governance academy’. This academy will co-develop the policy and practices necessary to scale up urban resilience, innovation and governance via nature-based solutions. An open innovation ecosystem approach bringing together city governments, SMEs, academia and civic society will be used to co-produce usable and actionable knowledge in all cities. CONNECTING will provide the reference framework for a new generation of urban nature-based solution processes and empower transitioning ambassadors who will globalise this approach through a strategy targeting multiplier cities. This novel approach, coupled with the high capacity of the consortium, makes CONNECTING an exciting prospect. In addition, linking all open-sourced data to the OPPLA platform will ensure perpetuation beyond the end of the project.
For more information: www.connectingnature.eu