Old buildings in vulnerable neighbourhoods pose challenges to achieving net-zero emissions. Climate-resilient regeneration and ecological restoration offer solutions. The EU-funded ClimaGen project will demonstrate how such measures can help achieve net-zero emissions by increasing public green spaces by 25 % in five cities: Belgrade, Gdańsk, Tartu, Torino, and Trondheim. Additionally, the project will implement shorter-term, co-creative measures in four replication cities: Cluj-Napoca, Eindhoven, Gernika, and Thessaloniki. Each of the nine cities will oversee specific work packages, supported by five cross-cutting concepts and four transversal work packages. ClimaGen aims to enhance resilience, prevent maladaptation, and foster collaboration within local governance, incorporating arts, culture, and youth engagement to drive sustainable urban transformation.

ClimaGen will demonstrate how Climate-resilient regeneration and renaturing for, by and with vulnerable neighbourhoods, can help cities and regions in their transitions towards net-zero. 5 Demonstration cities (Belgrade, Gdańsk, Tartu, Torino, and Trondheim), will implement 25% increased share of newly created and/or restored public green spaces in each city. 4 Replication Cities (Cluj-Napoca, Eindhoven, Gernika and Thessaloniki) will experiment with shorter-term co-creative measures with the same objectives and methods to plan for future implementation of the measures. All 9 cities will run their own Work Packages in ClimaGen, supported by 5 cross-cutting concepts and 4 transversal WPs:
ClimaGreens will nurture integrated renaturing measures that create resilience at several scales, and avoid maladaptation in the journey to climate-neutrality. ClimaLabs will provide local and regional collaborative governance, with arts, culture and youth, entrepreneurship and financing, and organisational resilience in long-term planning strategies. ClimaImpact will generate evidence-based decision support and valuation of co-benefits, in easy-to-understand and, where possible, visualised formats. ClimaValue will offer outreach, capacity building and policy guidance, with strategic advocacy together with sister projects and close collaboration with Missions/NEB communities, while an evidence-based ClimaGen Guidance Package will disseminate results and knowledge to cities. City Dialogues and cross-cutting Sense-Making Sessions will support local implementation and common learning. Together these define impact pathways to knowledge sharing, scaling and replication. The ClimaGen Games will tie these activities together with a portfolio of participatory, gamified, citizen-science-based methods to engage all partners and stakeholders in an inclusive manner, and to use their diversity as a strength.

Coordinator: NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTN (NO)

Partners: 
EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LIVING LABS IVZW (BE);
SINTEF AS (NO);
TH!NK E (BE);
GRAD BEOGRAD (RS);
CENTRE FOR EXPERIMENTS IN URBAN STUDIES - CEUS (RS);
CENTAR ZA PROMOCIJU NAUKE (RS);
GMINA MIASTA GDANSKA (PL);
POLITECHNIKA GDANSKA (PL);
STOWARZYSZENIE INICJATYWA MIASTO (PL);
TARTU LINN (EE);
TALLINNA TEHNIKAÜLIKOOL (EE);
Institute of Baltic Studies (EE);
COMUNE DI TORINO (IT);
ORTI GENERALI SRL - IMPRESA SOCIALE (IT);
FONDAZIONE LINKS - LEADING INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE FOR SOCIETY (IT);
FONDAZIONE DELLA COMUNITA DI MIRAFIORI ENTE FILANTROPICO E.T.S. (IT);
TRONDHEIM KOMMUNE (NO);
NYHAVNA EIENDOM AS (NO);
FORENINGEN PADRIV TRONDHEIM (NO);
ROSENDAL INTERNASJONALE TEATER (NO);
MUNICIPIUL CLUJ-NAPOCA (RO);
ASOCIATIA CLUSTER DE EDUCATIE C-EDU (RO);
GEMEENTE EINDHOVEN (NL);
GERNIKA-LUMOKO KULTUR ETXEA (ES);
ASOCIACION DE INDUSTRIAS DE CONOCIMIENTO Y TECNOLOGIA - GAIA - (ES);
ESKILARA S KOOP TXIKIA (ES);
ANAPTYXIAKI MEIZONOS ASTIKIS THESSALONIKIS AE - ANAPTYXIAKOS
ORGANISMOS TOPIKIS AUTODIOIKISIS (GR);
ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS (GR);
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT EUROPE (BE);
BORSBOOM-VAN BEURDEN JUDITH ANNA MARIA (NL);
TH!NK EUROPE (BE);
STIFTUNG GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE BASEL (CH);
EUSKALHERRIKO EZAGUTZA ETA TEKNOLOGIA INDUSTRIEN ELKARTEA

• Increase green spaces by 25% in five demonstration cities: Belgrade, Gdańsk, Tartu, Torino, and Trondheim.
• Implement co-creative measures in four replication cities: Cluj-Napoca, Eindhoven, Gernika, and Thessaloniki.
• Enhance resilience to climate change impacts and prevent maladaptation in urban areas.
• Foster collaboration within local governance, incorporating arts, culture, and youth engagement to drive sustainable urban transformation.