Research Project
URBREATH: addressing urban climate neutrality in European cities
Enhancing social interactions, inclusion, and liveability in cities leveraging Nature Based Solutions (NBSs), Local Digital Twin and Social Innovation.
Where: international
Where: international
Challenge
The increase in extreme weather events, such as floods and heat waves, is due to climate change that makes cities increasingly vulnerable environments and accentuates social problems such as poverty and exclusion. The lack of quality NBS makes the situation worse, especially in those neglected urban areas where there is an urgent need for social and technological revitalization in order to improve the quality of life.
Approach
Up to now, the prevailing approach to green revitalization and planning is often reduced to cost/profit criteria that often do not give a return on investment, failing to attract funding, people and businesses to these areas. The conventional approach also tends to neglect the needs of local communities and thus often ends up imposing solutions that are not socially acceptable. URBREATH proposes a more comprehensive, innovative and replicable paradigm shift at regional, national and cross-border levels.
Digital Ecosystem
Solution
Digital Ecosystem
URBREATH’s vision is to develop, implement, demonstrate, validate and replicate a comprehensive, community participation and NBS-driven urban revitalisation, resilience and climate neutrality paradigm that will ultimately radically enhance social interaction, inclusion, equitability and liveability in cities. Engineering plays a crucial role in the project, designing the overall solution, providing key technologies, and being responsible for the implementation of the reference technology stack to be tailored and deployed in the pilots.
The project has received co-funding from the Horizon Europe programme - Contract No. 101139711 HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-CITIES-01
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. The European Union cannot be held responsible for them.
Results
Assessment framework for NBS evidence-based evaluation
Best practices for replication of digital solutions and methods
Novel strategies for regional climate resilience
Innovative climate services
Impacts
Technologies
AI & Data
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The power of big data leads services, products and processes to a higher level of "intelligence".
Digital Twin
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See, think, simulate, and decide: Digital Twin is the entry point into the era of the data economy, the virtual replica of a real product and process.
Internet Of Things
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From the Internet of Things to the Internet of Me: the key to data connection.
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