INTERREG III B Project GreenKeys

Urban Green as a Key for Sustainable Cities

The project

Urban green spaces are crucial elements of all cities. They affect the townscape, provide ecological diversity and form essential structural and functional elements that make cities and urban regions liveable for their citizens. Despite the well known benefits gained from green spaces their present structure and functionality cannot be considered optimal in many cases. GreenKeys focuses on the improvement of urban green spaces situation and benefits towards sustainable cities by developing a "Pool of Green Strategies" (instruments, methods and new typologies). Case study cities will develop pilot projects to create new or to improve significant green areas for more social, ecological and economical qualities both for the cities and inhabitants towards increasing community capacity, local governance and human development.

The main objectives of Greenkeys are to define incentives for structural changes, develop a pool of urban green development strategies and to transfer the knowledge gained throughout the implementation process.

Partner

• Municipalities
  • Sofia, Kotel (BG)
  • Dresden, Leipzig (DE)
  • Xanthi, Halandri, Volos (GR)
  • Budapest (HU)
  • Giulianova (IT)
  • Bydgoszcz, Sanok (PL)
  • Nova Goricia (Si)
• NGOs
  • Union of Parks & Landscape Specialists in Bulgaria (BG)
• Scientific Support Institutions
  • University of Salzburg (AT)
  • Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development - IOER (DE)
  • Centre of Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle - UFZ (DE)
  • University of Thessaly (GR)
  • Geographical Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences - GRI HAS (HU)
  • Urban Planning Institute of Slovenia (SI)

More information
German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development (Gesellschaft des Deutschen Verbandes für Wohnungswesen, Städtebau und Raumordnung mbH)
E-Mail: interreg@deutscher-verband.org

For further information see the pages of the project at:
www.greenkeys-project.net