Day 1 - 23 March 2021
Reducing the risks - Nature-based solutions for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, water management and extreme weather events.
Welcome - setting out the importance of urban nature-based solutions in Glasgow and Scotland and explaining how they feed into the European Union’s strategy.
Susan Aitken (Leader of Glasgow City Council)
Aileen Campbell (Member of Scottish Parliament)
Innovating with nature-based solutions in our cities
Big climate challenge – how cities can adapt and innovate using nature-based solutions
Cristian Garcia (Promálaga), Gerardo Gonzalez (BIOAZUL)
Reducing the risks innovation cafes
Challenges of Retrofit Surface Water Management in Glasgow James Murray, MGSDP Glasgow City Council
GrowGreen in Wroclaw, our learning on nature-based solutions Malgorzata Bartyna-Zielinska, Grow Green
A green wall for kids in kindergarten Shushanik Asmaryan, Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies
10,000 Raingardens for Scotland Emilie Wadsworth, Green Action Trust
Malls Mire Community Woodland, Scotland Emma Iller, Urban Roots
What do citizens think about urban environments? Mamuka Gvilava, GIS and RS Consulting Center GeoGraphic
Orchards, agroforestry: how to create urban food forests? Fergus Walker, The Orchard Project
Towards a carbon conscious place: The Shetland Islands Laura Hainey, A&DS
UNaLab: urban nature labs Piersaverio Spinnato and Maria Dubovik, UnaLab
Building natural networks and delivering the deal with stakeholders
Antonio Prieto Gonzalez (A Coruña City)
Max Hislop (GCV Green Network Partnership)
Day 2 - 24 March 2021
Healing sick cities - Nature-based solutions for health, wellbeing, place-based planning, human scale, food growing and food provision.
Day 2 welcome and summary of previous day
Naturally Smart Cities – innovating with data to support nature-based solutions
Healing sick cities innovation cafes
Green health pathways to healthier cities Ian MacKenzie, Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation and Theresa Martin, Glasgow City Council
From natural playgrounds to floating gardens, Poznań, Poland Natalia Madajczyk, City of Poznan
Horticultural Therapy as a path to employment and wellbeing Richard Walsh, SACRO The Garden Project
Community growing – networks for nature Abi Mordin, Glasgow Community Food Initiative
The Children’s Wood Glasgow, Scotland Emily Cutts
Creating a metropolitan park in Pavlos Melas Maria Mavroudi, Municipality of Pavlos Melas
Glasgow – a National Park City? Dominic Hall, Glasgow National Park City
Young Placechangers programme, Scotland Ea O'Neill, greenspace scotland
URBAN GreenUP, new strategy for renaturing cities - Spain,Raul Sanchez, Urban Green Up
Where art and business collide: imagining urban nature-based solutions for health and wellbeing
Isobel Fletcher (Horizon Nua) 1, 2
Pauline Georgiou (University of East London)
Belma Pasic (SERDA), Nermina Suljević (City of Sarajevo)
UrbanbyNature capacity-building programme goes westwards - meet the Brazilian hub
Day 3 - 25 March 2021
Routes to recovery – Nature-based solutions for a green recovery, policy that supports natural infrastructure, nature-based enterprise, skills and employability.
Day 3 welcome and summary of previous day
UrbanbyNature – meeting the Caucasian, Chinese and Korean streams
New green deal – can nature-based solutions aid city recovery?
Julie Procter (greenspace scotland)
Accelerating innovation and start-ups in the nature-based economy
Siobhan McQuaid (Trinity College Dublin)
Stine Casparij Kondrup (Greencubator)
Stuart Connop (ARENA Incubator)
Colm O'Driscoll (ECOSTAR/Etifor)
Agnieszka Osipiuk (City of Poznan)
Sean Kelly (Glasgow City Council)
Entrepreneurial enterprises – service design for nature-based solutions training