Innovation & research Livablecities

• Promoting blue and green infrastructure (BGI) and its connectivity
• Improving biodiversity, air quality and climate resilience
• Transforming “challenging areas” and (re)connecting them to wider BGI networks in the NWE area.

LivableCities aims to create, expand and connect BGIs to integrate these challenging areas into BGI networks, restore biodiversity, improve air quality and strengthen climate resilience.

The project links policy, planning, practice and capacity building: cities jointly adopt a BGI Strategy (shared objectives) and a common BGI planning framework.

3 Pilot Actions:

• Creating city-wide blue-green (BGI) networks
•  Blue-green spaces and streets
• Micro-habitats

3 solutions:

• A BGI Planning Approach for the connection of BGI networks across scales (“nexus”)
• An Intervention Toolkit for neighourhood-level BGI (“patches”)
• A Manual for modular BGI Typologies (“plug-ins”) in challenging areas

Joint training courses will strengthen the institutional capacities of researchers, administrations, planners, decision-makers, professionals, citizens and civil society.

Partners collaborate on a transnational scale, contributing expertise in BGI and policy, planning, biodiversity, air quality, climate adaptation and communication.

• Project start date: 18 November 2025
• Project end date: 30 June 2029

The LivableCities project has been selected as part of the North-West Europe Interreg Programme 2021-2027, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

• Total project budget: €8 247 804
• ERDF funds (60%): €4 948 682 

• IZES gGmbH (Lead Partner)
• Kreisstadt Saarlouis
• Stadt Landau in der Pfalz
• Gemeente Utrecht
• Stad Antwerpen
• Comhairle Cathrach Chorcaí
• Afpa
• BUILDERS School of Engineering
• Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern – Landau
• Universiteit Gent
• Plante & Cité
• Ville de Strasbourg
• Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse du Luxembourg