The recent Project Partners meeting for the URabio Bauhaus project took place in beautiful Budapest, under the framework of the Interreg Central Europe program. During the meeting, that started 12th of december, partners discussed the implementation of pilot projects focused on enhancing urban biodiversity. For the European Project Center research associate Dr. Monika Klein participated. A key point was the creation of a diverse stakeholder group to collaborate on finding innovative, sustainable solutions for biodiversity challenges in cities. The discussions aimed at identifying opportunities to foster greener, more resilient urban environments while addressing local challenges with impactful, beautiful solutions.
The loss of biodiversity due to climate change is enormous, also in urban areas. To counter this negative development, the URBIO BAUHAUS project protects and boosts urban biodiversity by combining aesthetic design, citizen participation, and science. With this holistic approach, the project innovatively integrates “New European Bauhaus” principles to develop urban biodiversity solutions. The partners create and test biodiverse islands to preserve keystone species together with affected citizens and deliver a transnational policy master plan for further fostering long-term collaborations between science, policy makers, and locals.