Rural greening plans in the field of agriculture – unfolding the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union for the period 2023-2027 offers an opportunity to make agriculture greener, more fair, more sustainable and more result-oriented – this opportunity is turned into practice in the member states through national legislations, following the common EU directives. What are the regulatory and support instruments and […]
From Living Labs to Societally Conscious Manufacturing: The Case of Eindhoven
This month, we talked to Wim de Kinderen, who works for the Brussels Office of Brainport Eindhoven. This interview will cover a lot from living labs to mixing technical and social innovation, from regenerating a region through triple-helix economic initiatives to 3D printing. However, there is an underlying theme here: how economic development can be […]
From the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy to Urban Greening Plans
How the EU is Legislating for Nature Restoration in Cities? In the last couple of years, increased attention has been paid to environmental challenges in the European Union’s agenda. Part of this is an increased focus on biodiversity and related issues, such as nature restoration. For example, the European Green Deal aims to utilise natural […]
Breaking the glass ceiling: NBS water retention is becoming a horizontal principle IN policies
Unexpected and dramatic precipitation events become everyday struggles as the effects of climate change can be felt more and more on our skin. Managing the response to this phenomenon requires multilevel and interdisciplinary effort from cities, regions, countries and transnational systems likewise. In this broad horizon, we investigated the coordination role of municipalities with regards […]
From Living Labs to Societally Conscious Manufacturing: The Case of Eindhoven
This month, we talked to Wim de Kinderen, who works for the Brussels Office of Brainport Eindhoven. This interview will cover a lot from living labs to mixing technical and social innovation, from regenerating a region through triple-helix economic initiatives to 3D printing. However, there is an underlying theme here: how economic development can be […]
Available, applicable and easily spreadable good practices for bee-friendly cities
We already talked about monitoring the environment with bees, but on a more general level, the presence of bees is an indicator for an area’s well-being and inevitable for biological diversity. In frames of the BeePathNet URBACT project in 2018-2021, the XIIth district of Budapest has been working on becoming a bee-friendly district with several […]
Green Transformation, Community Led: The European Commission on the New European Bauhaus
Readers of the BURST Magazine may be familiar with the New European Bauhaus initiative, as we already covered it in July last year. However, this time, we managed to ask Alicja Herbowska, Acting Head of Unit for the NEB at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission for an interview. The interview will explain […]