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For centuries, the Demer River has flowed through Hasselt - not just as a body of water, but as part of the city’s identity. On March 23rd, that connection was renewed and reimagined during Demerdag, an afternoon of hands-on learning and celebration in Kapermolenpark that drew over 1,000 enthusiasti...

As a European partnership project, Biodiverse Cities recognises the critical role of transnational learning in fostering collaboration and innovation. By sharing experiences and expertise across partners, cities, and countries, we strengthen collective knowledge. Our Transnational Peer Learning Prog...

As we celebrate World Cities Day on October 31, 2024, we at Biodiverse Cities are proud to join the global conversation on sustainable urbanisation.  By: Sol Gustafsson & Caitlin Ball - Bax...

The Biodiverse Cities project landed in Växjö for the fifth partner meeting, following Carl Linnaeus’s footsteps through the Småland landscape. During the meeting, we took a closer look at Växjö’s pilots and learned about the cities’ work with greening urban planning processes....

The city of Lille hosted the 4th Partner meeting of the Biodiverse Cities project. This was a great opportunity for the international group to learn and get inspired by the biodiversity-ambitious French city!...

Dordrecht, a Dutch city with a rich historical background and vibrant natural spaces, is on an ambitious mission to document 10,000 species within its boundaries. This initiative, driven by a recognition of biodiversity’s importance and the urgent need to understand it better, aims to shine a light...

Biodiverse Cities connects people to nature and nature to people. Employing co-creation approaches such as participatory methods of urban development can effectively incorporate public desires and needs for recreation, nature and leisure into urban planning. Similarly, citizen science initiatives ca...

Växjö Municipality's work to restore the Telestadshöjden Wetland has been featured in the special water edition of the CitiesWithNature BUZZ newsletter....

From November 7th to November 9th, Bremen’s Senatorin für Umwelt, Klima und Wissenschaft (SUKW) and Bremer Umwelt-Beratung (BUB) hosted our Biodiverse Cities team for the third partner meeting. ...