Blue-green infrastructure enhances urban resilience by managing pollution, preventing floods, and mitigating extreme weather. It also brings environmental, social, and economic benefits, like improved mental and physical wellbeing, recreational spaces, higher property values, and better air quality. Citizen involvement plays a crucial role in boosting resilience, protecting biodiversity, and fostering social cohesion and innovation in green space management.

This webinar aims to inspire local and regional policy makers with practical examples how to increase public participation in blue and green infrastructure projects. It will feature inspiring solutions, good practices, guidance and recommendations backed by real-life examples from European cities and regions from many Interreg Europe projects.

Keynote speech

Keynote speech by Thomas Schneider, City of Ingolstadt, Germany (Blue Green City), on involving citizens through hybrid participation formats. (tbc)

Interreg Europe good practices