#greencities

The aim of the project is to protect and preserve natural capital in the form of green infrastructure development in urban areas. The goal is to strengthen the potential of the Slovak-Hungarian cross-border area through the revitalisation of green zones in the context of climate change.

During the implementation of the project, major infrastructure investments will be made in the five municipalities, which is in itself an example of good practice, as the type of technology and urban design used is not currently widespread in natural environments. The actual infrastructures that will be restored range from the application of green roofs, to the reconstruction of a city centre square, to the comprehensive revitalisation of a historic park as a national cultural monument in the context of climate change.

The infrastructural activities will be accompanied by significant events and an awareness-raising campaign to systematically and purposefully disseminate the expert content of each site and encourage visitors to adopt these best practices in their daily practice. To this end, a guide handbook will be prepared to train the project visionaries and other stakeholders (municipal public education officials, teachers, etc.) using experiential pedagogy tools.

Following this, a system of “green ambassadors” will be launched, which will contribute significantly to the long-term sustainability of the project. The ambassador system is based on the commitment of trained professionals to use the knowledge they have acquired on a training sessions and pass it on to interested people in their communities, with the aim of disseminating the knowledge widely.

The project outputs will also be spread further on a transnational level at the upcoming Győr Climate EXPO 2025 and 2026. This event was the largest local event of the Interreg Cooperation Day programme in 2022. In order to span the results even more widely, we will organise a conference for both the professional and wider public on different approaches to green area revitalisation in the Danube Region. The purpose of the conference will be to present innovative principles of sustainable development in the revitalisation of green urban areas in line with adaptation measures to the negative impacts of climate change, to present concrete green urban infrastructures of the project partners and to exchange knowledge of green ambassadors.