ReBuilt E-learning platform opening
Universities, public administration employees, small and medium-sized enterprises, experts, and the general public — join the course designed just for you. As part of the ReBuilt project, we have prepared 4 e-learning courses in 9 languages, each covering several topics. The courses will be launched on February 1, 2026, and will offer the opportunity for […]
Engaging People from Within: Why Internal Commitment Defines the Future of Municipal CSR
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) did not begin as the strategic framework we know today. When Howard Bowen introduced the term in 1953 in Social Responsibilities of the Businessman, he argued that “corporations not only produce goods and services but also workplace conditions,” suggesting that investing in social responsibility enhances both employee wellbeing and organisational performance. […]
Nature-based solutions as financially viable opportunities
Nature not only provides unbelievable benefits for our physical and mental health, but also offers cheap and aesthetic solutions to develop our cities and reshape our landscapes, enabling the long-desired paradigm shift across all areas of economic life. If we monetise the ecosystem services nature provides, they are, no doubt, far the best infrastructure. Yet, […]
Sustainability in Action: Local Voices Driving the Future of Biosphere Reserves
Biosphere reserves (BRs) are internationally recognized “learning places for sustainable development,” where conservation and human activity coexist in a balanced way. They serve as living laboratories for testing and refining approaches that reconcile biodiversity protection with sustainable use. By preserving vital ecosystems, fostering community engagement, and providing platforms for dialogue, biosphere reserves deliver local solutions […]
Together With Citizens for Climate Resilience: Nature-Based Solutions and Participative Governance in CONE
In cities, climate change creates key challenges but for which our old friends, nature-based solutions offer an effective, sustainable and aesthetically pleasing solution. However, these solutions require coordination between parts of the so-called quadruple helix (i.e., public authorities, businesses, academia and citizens). In the Interreg Central Europe project CONE (Cities of nature: nature-based-solutions in urban […]
Going Real: How We Help Biosphere Reserves in the Hungary-Slovakia Border Region
In most of our articles, we focus on projects that are European in scale, or at the very least, concentrate on multiple European countries. But as we often emphasise, the whole point of such projects is to foster the proliferation of innovative, green solutions on a national or local level: to ensure that local or […]
UPSURGE: Towards a More Digital NBS
’City-centered approach to catalyze nature-based solutions through the EU Regenerative Urban Lighthouse for pollution alleviation and regenerative development’, or UPSURGE for its friends, is a Horizon 2020 project where BURST is a partner organisation. We thought it is time we checked in on this project, so we asked BURST project manager Mihály Kondacs about the […]
Synergies for Decarbonisation: How Public and Private Environmental Efforts Can Complement Each Other?
Achieving carbon neutrality is not only a key challenge for humanity, but a target for the EU to be achieved by 2050. Our project, Aligning public and CoRpOrate Sustainability goalS, or ACROSS, sets out to support that, by aligning public and corporate sustainability efforts, more precisely, by leveraging corporate social responsibility (CSR) schemes in order […]
How Can We Make Construction Greener in Central Europe?
This month, we will focus on an Interreg Central Europe we work on, ReBuilt. The construction sector is one of the main contributors to climate change and environmental damage, with its immense use of resources, waste and greenhouse gas emissions. ‘More than 50% of all extracted materials, 50% of water and a thirds of energy […]
How to Make Biodiversity Governance More Participatory?
This month, we wanted to highlight another Interreg Europe we are part of, this time led by the Province of Potenza in Italy: CiBioGo, or Citizen Participation in Biodiversity Governance. Biodiversity governance, such as safeguarding protected natural areas or strengthening ecosystems and biodiversity, is key for reaching the EU’s “30×30” target as set out in […]