After intensive consultations with the local community, the Urban Greenery Enterprise in Katowice has taken delivery of designs for NBS interventions at four bus stops and a new green space in Katowice’s Market Square. This is a part of our ambitious UPSURGE project, which aims to improve the quality of life of residents through sustainable…

The lease for the UPSURGE NBS ‘agroecology community garden’ on the Belfast demonstration site has been approved. The key Stakeholders ‘Friends of the Field’ will implement the NBS together with Belfast City Council and Queen’s University Belfast. The community garden space has already been fenced off. It is located beside research plots for use by…

Before the end of 2023 the construction of the gravel lawn parking lot in Budapest 18th district in front of the Tomory Lajos Museum has come to an end. This is the second pilot project in the district, financed by the EU UPSURGE project. The design aimed at creating parking spaces in front of Tomory…

On the 14th December 2023 Belfast City Council supported by Queen’s University Belfast held a kick-off meeting for the UPSURGE Competency Group in Belfast, UK. The meeting enabled competency group members from citizen and environment groups and academic background to explore the purpose of competency groups for the UPSURGE project and the city of Belfast…

The kick-off meeting of the Competency Group in Maribor, Slovenia took place on the 6th of December 2023. After the introductory presentation of the UPSURGE project, demonstration, and the purpose of the Competency Group, participants discussed possibilities for collaboration and connections with their stakeholders. One of the ideas was to include students, especially in addressing…