GreenPlace. Let's do it together! enables cities to collaborate and develop coherent solutions to common urban challenges through networking, mutual learning through experience, drawing conclusions and identifying good practices to improve urban policy. The project is co-financed by the European Union from the ERDF under the URBACT IV Program.
Ten partners from Europe, using social participation tools, intend to develop activities to renovate and make unused urban areas available to residents.
Taking into account the regional specificity and conditions of individual countries, the partnership's priority is to introduce greenery as a key factor limiting climate change in urban areas.
Each partner indicated an area (case study) for their city that will be covered by the project activities. In Limerick, it is the area around the old medieval City wall.
Project goal:
Restoring forgotten urban spaces and making them friendly to residents and the environment, by optimizing the use of existing resources, in the context of the ecological crisis and the difficult financial and geopolitical situation.
Assumed results:
Creating a cooperation network between partners from different regions of the European Union to exchange knowledge and experiences on common social, political and environmental challenges.
Development of an Integrated Action Plan by each of the project partners together with the URBACT Local Group. The implementation of the assumptions contained therein should contribute to the sustainable development of the cities involved in the project.
Project activities:
- exchange of knowledge and experiences with European partners who struggle with similar social and environmental problems in their cities;
- cooperation at the transnational and local level with project partners, experts in the field of greenery, rainwater and transformation of the urban environment, and local communities in order to develop optimal solutions in line with the expectations of residents;
- establishment of the URBACT Local Group composed of non-governmental organizations, cultural institutions, academic communities, professional self-governments and representatives of municipal institutions;
- using design tools to increase residents' participation in shaping urban policies (social participation);
- creation of an Integrated Action Plan by each project partner;
- information and project promotion activities;
Project partners:
- Wrocław (Poland) – Leader,
- Vila Nova de Pioares (Portugal),
- Quatro d'Altino (Italy),
- Nitra (Slovakia),
- Onda (Spain),
- Löbau (Germany),
- Limerick (Ireland),
- Cehegín (Spain),
- Bucharest (Romania),
- Boulogne-sur-mer (France).
Project implementer:
Department of Environment and Climate Action, County Hall.
Financial resources, amount of funding:
- Total value of the project: 846,062.00 Euro,
- Total value of funding: EUR 595,652.50,
- Project value for the City of Limerick: EUR 74,525
- Own contribution of the City of limerick: EUR 26,083.75.
Time limit for completion:
Project implementation start date: June 1, 2023.
Project completion date: December 31, 2025.
Detailed information about the project can be found at: https://urbact.eu/networks/greenplace
Contact: Carmel Lynch, carmel.lynch@limerick.ie tel. +00353 61 557507
