Iridra

02/11/2026

29/10/2026

🌿💧 Discover NBS360 Demo Site 7: Alibey Basin
Today we take you to Alibey Basin in Türkiye, one of NBS360’s seven demonstration sites!
The basin faces growing pressure from urbanisation, flooding and water quality challenges, creating a valuable setting to explore how Nature-based Solutions can strengthen water and climate resilience.
🌱 In Alibey Basin, together with Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, NBS360 will explore solutions such as riparian buffers, afforestation and urban green retention areas, and their integration with existing water infrastructure.
By bringing together Nature-based Solutions, monitoring, modelling and stakeholder engagement, the aim is not only to understand what works locally, but also how successful approaches can be adapted and scaled to other Mediterranean contexts.
🌍 Different landscapes, different challenges, one shared goal: a more climate-resilient Mediterranean.
PrimaProgram ΕΛΓΟ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑ - ELGO Dimitra Българска академия на науките - БАН Universitat Politècnica de València UPV NRD Nucleo di Ricerca sulla Desertificazione Università di Sassari UniCa - Università degli Studi di Cagliari Iridra الصفحة الرسمية للمدرسة العليا للمهندسين بمجاز الباب ESI Medjez El Bab Doktar

26/10/2026

When nature helps manage floods: NBS360Prima in Sardinia 🌿💧
How can Nature-based Solutions help Mediterranean communities become more resilient to sudden and intense rainfall?
🌊 NBS360 Demo Site 3 takes us to Rio San Girolamo, Sardinia, Italy, where flash floods pose significant challenges to local communities and the surrounding landscape.
🌱 Through NBS360, the site explores Nature-based Solutions designed to slow down runoff, improve water retention and reduce flood risks, including:
💧 Small-scale water retention measures to temporarily store runoff and reduce peak flows.
🌿 Vegetated channels to help manage water flows while supporting ecological functions.
🌾 Landscape-based interventions to improve the capacity of the area to respond to intense rainfall events.
By combining environmental monitoring, modelling and stakeholder engagement, DS3 will assess how these solutions can contribute to more effective flood risk management and strengthen local climate resilience.
🌍 Working with natural processes offers new opportunities to protect communities and build a more climate-resilient Mediterranean.
PrimaProgram Dipartimento di Agraria UniCa - Università degli Studi di Cagliari

26/10/2026

📣 Discover Session 22: “Reconnecting cities and peri-urban areas with nature: the role of Nature-based Solutions” at the Nature-based Solutions International Congress 2026!
Taking place in Paris from 2–6 November 2026, the will bring together researchers, policymakers and practitioners to explore how Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can build resilience for people and nature.

🌱 Co-organized by CARDIMED EU, ARCADIA Leading the way to climate resilience and NatalieProject, with support from the , Session 22 will explore NbS for climate adaptation, biodiversity recovery, public health and environmental justice.

🌿 Meet our speakers and discover their contributions:
🔹 Nathalie Baumann explores how greener schoolyards can deliver climate and biodiversity benefits.
🔹 Fabio Masi presents nature-based approaches to flood and drought management in Mediterranean regions, focusing on the Sicilian CARDIMED demonstration case.
🔹 Sandra Baki and Jesús Soler examine how climate risk assessments and future scenarios can help evaluate NbS potential for climate mitigation and urban resilience.
🔹 Lola Czuckermand investigates how urban soil unsealing supports early soil biodiversity recovery and vegetation development in Mediterranean environments.
🔹Juliette B. investigates the relationship between urban NbS and tiger mosquito abundance, considering biodiversity and public health.
🔹 Gonçalo Canto Moniz discusses the challenges of co-creating NbS and the role of collaboration in more inclusive urban planning.
🔹Slaveya Petrova explores how urban and peri-urban green infrastructure can improve ecosystem services, air quality and soil health while reducing heat and flood risks.
🔹Kaidi Tamm, PhD examines how urban NbS influence wellbeing, biodiversity and social justice, and how their benefits are shared.

📅 Friday, 6 November 2026 | 8:30–10:30 a.m.
📍 Paris, France
📖 Explore all contributions in the Book of Abstracts: https://cutt.ly/SyTc5I14

NetworkNature EU Mission Implementation Platform for Adaptation to Climate Change (MIP4Adapt)

16/10/2026

Four years of research, pilots, and collaboration to advance circul...

15/10/2026

🌱 P2GreeN is heading to the European Week of Regions and Cities 2026! 🌍

📅 10 November 2026
🕙 10:00–11:30 CET
💻 Online

How can circular sanitation contribute to more sustainable and resilient cities and regions?

Join us online on 10 November 2026 for “Circular sanitation for resilient cities and regions: Closing the loop on nutrients and water”, a session led by P2GreeN partners ICLEI and Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

♻️ Discover how circular sanitation can contribute to nutrient recovery and sustainable resource management.
💬 Interactive breakout rooms will give participants the opportunity to discuss:
🌱 P2GreeN pilot projects
🏛️ Governance
🤝 Social acceptance

👉 Register here:
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Let's work together towards a more circular and sustainable future! 🌿

13/10/2026

in came to and end, and it was awesome as usual.

got its part attending with Anacleto Rizzo:

- Presenting and representing CARDIMED EU with the Sicilian Demo, the of Catania and the of Ferla.

- Contributing to and representing the Cluster on within the workshop organized by the Constructed Wetland Association, and attending the first cluster meeting.

See you in Malaysia 2028, the future of is bright within the International Water Association :)

P.s.: out of all, Guenter Langergraber, Prof Alexandros Stefanakis, Devi Bühler, PhD, Peter Marcus Bach, PhD, Gabriela Dotro, Andy Freeman, PhD, Darja Istenic a big thanks to all of you for these days...

12/10/2026

🌱 P2GreeN Final Conference in Brussels

On 7 October, took part in the Final Conference in Brussels, a great opportunity to look back at the project's achievements, share results from across the consortium, and reflect on how nutrient recovery from human waste and water reuse can contribute to more sustainable agricultural practices.

We also presented our poster on the Feasibility Studies developed within P2GreeN, exploring the technical and economic potential of the proposed solutions across different contexts.

And finally, we got to taste the mangoes grown using for irrigation! 🥭

A big thank you to the entire P2GreeN consortium and everyone who contributed to this journey. It has been a pleasure to collaborate, exchange knowledge, and work together towards a more sustainable and circular future! 🌍

07/10/2026

EQUATERRA kick-off: Healing the Land, Rebuilding the Future

Today we are bringing together the full EQUATERRA consortium for our kick-off meeting — 14 partners from 7 countries, combining European scientific and technological expertise with strong Ukrainian leadership and on-the-ground knowledge.

Over the next 48 months, EQUATERRA will develop, demonstrate and validate a replicable blueprint for the green reconstruction of conflict-affected areas. Our focus is Ukraine, where contaminated soil and water, together with vast amounts of construction and demolition waste, are major barriers to recovery.

🔎 EQUATERRA in a nutshell:
• 3 Systemic Innovation Pilots in Ukraine: Soil, Water and Construction
• ≥31 bio-based and nature-based solutions developed and lab-validated
• ≥18 solutions deployed and validated in real environments
• A mobile AI-powered system for sorting conflict-derived construction waste
• An AI-enhanced digital platform and Decision Support System for mapping degradation and planning restoration
• >200 stakeholders engaged and >60 multipliers trained for green reconstruction
• A Green Reconstruction Guide and replication roadmap for Ukraine and other conflict-affected regions

During the kick-off, partners are aligning on who does what, when and how — from co-creation and stakeholder engagement, to remediation technologies, circular construction materials, digital tools, pilots, policy recommendations, exploitation and long-term impact.

At the heart of EQUATERRA is a simple idea: the environmental liabilities of war can become assets for a safe, circular and resilient recovery. By combining community-led social innovation with advanced bio-based and technological solutions, we aim to help local communities co-restore land, water and livelihoods — and build back greener.

We are excited to begin this journey together.

06/10/2026