THE EUROPEAN UNION REGENERATIVE URBAN LIGHTHOUSE:
UPSURGE provides a new development model for cities, 
centered on Nature-Based Solutions for renaturing urban space, 
to address the challenge of  cities’ carbon footprint and air pollution
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UPSURGE’s main objective is to build the EU Regenerative Urban Lighthouse as a reference framework offering guided support on how tested and verified NBS can be strategically implemented to significantly improve the multitude of problems faced by cities.

The Lighthouse will be a knowledge and practice-based European framework created on real-life tested NBS practices implemented by different innovative EU cities, research institutions and companies. As the knowledge core of the Lighthouse, the Urban Regenerative Development.

Map of the 5 large demonstrations in Europe: Belfast, Breda, Budapest, Katowice, Maribor.

Latest news

  • Leveraging nature for just cities: Planning nature-based solutions in Greece

    Alice Wanner, Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider, Meike Jungnickel, Leveraging nature for just cities: Planning nature- based solutions in Greece, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Volume 106, 2025, 128731, ISSN 1618-8667, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128731

  • Oral bioaccessibility trends for As, Cd, Cr, Ni, and Pb in vegetables grown in contaminated soils: Asystematic review

    Newell, Jennifer, Cox, Siobhan F., Doherty, Rory, 70009, Oral bioaccessibility trends for As, Cd, Cr, Ni, and Pb in vegetables grown in contaminated soils: Asystematic review, Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems, Urban Agric Region Food Syst., Vol.10, 1, 2575-1220, https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.70009

  • Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration,base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux

    Arthur Vienne, Patrick Frings, Sílvia Poblador, Laura Steinwidder, Jet Rijnders, Jonas Schoelynck, Olga Vinduskova, Sara Vicca, Earthworms in an enhancedweathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Volume199, 2024, 109596, ISSN 0038-0717, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109596