From City Blues to Blue-Green Futures – Learnings, Implementations and the NBS Model

Project: City Blues
Virtual Meeting & Physical Meeting

Description

We are pleased to invite you to the City Blues Final Event in Berlin, which will take place at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) on 30 September 2026.

You can also join online: The morning session will be held as a hybrid event (9:15 – 12:30). 

In the event, participants get to hear from City Blues project's outcomes and the NBS model website as well as discussion on how to leverage the experiences in the future.

In the afternoon, there is an interesting site visit to Potsdamer Platz in Berlin to see Nature-based Solutions around the area.

 

Agenda

  •  
    Time
    Item
  •  
    09:00 - 09:15 (CEST)
    Arriving with coffee and snacks
  •  
    09:15 - 09:30 (CEST)
    Welcoming words
    Project Manager Anna Vilhula, City of Tampere & Dr. Pascale Rouault, KWB
  •  
    09:30 - 09:50 (CEST)
    Key note
    Professor Ivar Annus, Tallinn University of Technology
  •  
    09:50 - 10:35 (CEST)
    Panel discussion on joint NBS model, City Blues pilots & lessons learnt 
  •  
    10:35 - 11:00 (CEST)
    Coffee break – Scaling up the NBS model
  •  
    11:00 - 11:10 (CEST)
    Who Engages and How: Lessons from City Blues
    Dr. Cristian Tosa, University of Stavanger
  •  
    11:10 - 11:20 (CEST)
    BGI Monitoring & Condition assessment – Integrated App
    Researcher Paul Schütz, KWB
  •  
    11:20 - 11:30 (CEST)
    Regional policy perspective and future outlook
    Coordinator Elsi Kauppinen, Policy Area Nutri of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
  •  
    11:30 - 12:00 (CEST)
    Key note
    Director Lisa Junghans, Rainwater Agency Berlin
  •  
    12:00 - 12:10 (CEST)
    Leveraging the City Blues experience for new opportunities in the EUSBSR, EU Missions and MFF 2028–2034
    Coordinator Esa Kokkonen, Policy Area Innovation of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
  •  
    12:30 - 13:30 (CEST)
    Lunch

    (Hybrid event ends at 12:30)
  •  
    13:30 - 15:30 (CEST)
    Site visit: Nature-based Solutions around Potsdamer Platz
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