AQUAGREEN

Acquiring Urban Resilience Against Floods and Droughts: a novel citizen-powered integrated Green and Blue System

Areas: Building performance & architectural liveability Climate & energy challenges Cultural & living heritage Urban design

Project code: EUI02-099

Programme: European Urban Initiative - Innovative Actions

Call: EUI-IA Call 2

The devastating floods of May 2023 highlighted how climate change is present and makes territories and populations fragile. AQUAGREEN will test in Faenza innovative solutions to make urban areas more resilient to these extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent and dangerous. They will consist of a blue-green Multifunctional Resilience Park Living Lab (MRPLL) built in a public area (around 3.5 ha) in a district particularly devastated by the floods: Borgo Durbecco. Different solutions, often carried out individually, will be integrated, through the MRPLL, in an innovative, digital, and high-performing combination based on new permeable pavement to favor water infiltration, rain garden, tank for rainwater collection to be used in water scarcity periods, green roof on the gym, combined with a photovoltaic plant linked to a storage system also to ensure electricity power for drainage pumps during blackouts. Thus, a Living Lab using a digital interface will be implemented for constant citizens’ involvement in creative co-designing. MRPLL, located in a delimited pilot area, will be complemented by two tools, linked to it, operating at a wider territorial level: a Decision Support System that considers data in real-time, and an innovative Early Warning System to better enable public authorities to alert promptly the whole population. The integration of these different solutions in a unique system replicable at a wider scale in the EU is the leading innovation and originality of the project.

Project duration

01/12/2024 - 30/11/2027

University of Bologna Coordinator

Patrizia TASSINARI (DISTAL)

Department scientific supervisor

Fabrizio I. APOLLONIO

Coordinator

Unione Romagna Faentina (URF)

Partnership

Romagna Faentina Union
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
IUAV University of Venice
HERAtech S.r.l.
CAE S.p.A.
Multiservice Inter-municipal Enterprise Consortium
BORGO DURBECCO APS
Municipality of Michalovce
City of Slavonski Brod
Municipality of Verviers

Total Budget: 5,485,367.40 €

DA Budget: 383.328,93 €

Professors and researchers connected to the project

Fabrizio I. APOLLONIO