Vertical greening for liveable cities – innovation to facilitate the breakthrough of an old concept

Vertical Green 2.0

Call

  • Nexus

Project Website

https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/vertical-green-2-0/

Principal Investigator

Dr. Thomas Nehls, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Partners

Dr. Ulrike Pitha, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien - Ingenieurbiologie und Landschaftsbau, Austria Dr. Chung-Kee Yeh, National Taiwan University - Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, Chinese Taipei Dr. Eva Paton, Technische Universitaet Berlin - Fachgebiet Ökohydrologie und Landschaftsbewertung Damjana Gantar, Urban planning institute of the Republic of Slovenia / Urbanisticni inštitut Republike Slovenije, Slovenia DI. Doris Schnepf, Green4Cities GmbH, Austria

Funders

  • ARRS (Slovenian Research Agency), BMBF/DLR-PT (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), FFG (Austrian Research Promotion Agency), MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology)

Project Objective

The objectives of this project are as follows: • What are the needs, preferences and prejudices towards vertical green? What are the unsolved problems? • How can we design sustainable vertical green? (Water & nutrients, acceptance & participation, profitability) • What is the city-wide impact of vertical green under realistic distribution scenarios? How much vertical green do we want?

Call Objective

The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a joint call established in order to bring together actors to find innovative new solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge. The ultimate goal is to increase the access and the quality of life.

Region

  • Asia, Europe

Country

  • Chinese Taipei

Duration

42 months

Call Date

December 9, 2016

Project Award Date

February 15, 2018