AQUAGREEN
Acquiring Urban Resilience Against Floods and Droughts: a novel citizen-powered integrated Green and Blue System
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. Diff erent 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 infi ltration, 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
Scientific project head for the Department
Patrizia Tassinari
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 €
Lecturers and researchers connected to the project
Alessia Zampini
Andrea Ugolini
Angela Santangelo
Elisa Conticelli
Fabrizio Ivan Apollonio
Riccardo Foschi
Rosa Smurra
Non-permanent staff connected to the project
Aurelio Muzzarelli
Benedetta Gaeta
Claudia De Luca
Eleonora Melandri
Francesco Vettore
Giulia Marzani
Giulia Favaretto
Isabella Giovanetti
Vanessa Assumma
Ilaria Innocenti
Website
https://www.urban-initiative.eu/ia-cities/faenza/about-projects
Project ERC sectors
SH3