FUTURE PROOF CITIES – An innovative solution for digital mental wellbeing
nterview with Eszter Kostenszky and Balázs Humayer 1 July is Semmelweis Day in Hungary, celebrating the achievements of healthcare professionals. So our topic in July is health and in particular mental health. This month, we have talked to Eszter Kostenszky, from our friends at Grants Europe, who talked about how mental health appeared in EU-funded […]
Finding our cities’ way back to the world’s ecosystems
The effects of losing the biodiversity and environmental integrity are omnipotent in our lives, and they scream for a New Deal with mother nature. The UPSURGE project proposes to enter this new deal by using Nature Based Solutions to tackle the diverse urban challenges related to climate change. BURST is part of this endeavour as […]
FUTURE PROOF CITIES – How to Pay It? Social Innovation Bonds As An Innovative Solution to Financing
Interview with Maria Chiara Pizzorno This May, we are focusing on social innovation. But for municipalities, it is a challenging topic: implementing social innovation cannot be achieved without the right financing tools. This month, we have talked to Maria Chiara Pizzorno, an ad-hoc expert in the URBACT network SIBDev. SIBDev is implementing a good practice […]
Prospects of a greener and more sustainable tourism
Sustainable tourism is slow and green – since the 2010s, there is no debate about it. The last decade strengthened this standpoint as the consequences of climate change have entered our lives more evidently than before, making it a must to go green in every aspect. Additionally, the 2020-2021 pandemic pushed us to focus on […]
From the Pharaoh’s property to an endangered public good
…. comprehensive solutions to the emerging global water crisis. Water scarcity is the phenomenon when fresh water supply falls below the standard demand. Water can become scarce both due to a fall in supply (e.g. due to droughts) and due to increased water use (e.g. due to increased population or increased water-heavy industries). In this […]
FUTURE PROOF CITIES – possibilities of the neW EU programming period?
Interview with Eszter Héjj Thank you for sitting down for this interview Eszter, we are grateful for giving us some of your time. February is the Month of Urbanism in Hungary and we wanted to talk about how urbanism, urban development and related issues are manifesting in the European Union’s new, 2021-27 Multiannual Financial Frameworks […]
The power of art and culture … and how to fund it
So I want to begin with an apology. I apologise in advance for writing another one of those articles that uses COVID as an excuse to talk about something the author thinks is important. In my case: art, culture, and wellbeing. I’m going to use this article as a soapbox, giving a few examples and […]
New ways to create more green areas in cities
… via Integrated Urban Green Space management Today’s cities are heavily populated and densely built-up. Improving the quality of life of citizens by providing them with green spaces is therefore really challenging for municipalities that anyway have limited resources. So we give it a go and explore smart governance approaches addressing this challenge, through the […]
Fighting elderly isolation with active ageing
Isolation has been a challenge for the elderly generations in the last decades, but it has been more than ever relevant as the covid pandemic puts them in quarantine from their families for the sake of their health. Initiatives fighting the isolation and promoting healthy ageing are a priority in reforming our social services, to […]
Building identity and tourism in the 21st century
… via Community-sourced Cultural Heritage Valorization The folklore of Saint Martin is part of our pan-European cultural heritage. It is about much more than churches and relics: his pilgrimage across the continent lives through legends carrying unexploited potential for community-building and tourism as well. The NewPilgrimAge project proposes a possible way of making the best […]
