Urban Releaf

Last month, the Urban ReLeaf Athens team brought together families for an interactive workshop that combined digital citizen science with hands-on creative learning, encouraging children…

How can cities move from isolated citizen science initiatives to lasting, systemic change? This question shaped Urban ReLeaf’s contribution to the European Urban Resilience Forum…

How do we ensure that nature-based solutions in cities genuinely work for everyone and that the people who live there help shape them? These questions…

The Athens’ team is continuing its work to strengthen urban nature monitoring through an ongoing campaign for the city’s trees registry, inviting citizens and visitors to contribute valuable data via the Trees app.    As part of this…

Last month Urban ReLeaf was represented in Manchester at the 12th plenary session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-12), (pronounced “ip-bes”). IPBES gathered leading global experts on nature, government representatives,…

Cities around the world are expected to track sustainability progress, yet the data they rely on is often incomplete, outdated, or disconnected from everyday urban…

What is the Urban ReLeaf Accelerator Programme? The Urban ReLeaf Accelerator Programme is a structured capacity-building and replication initiative that helps cities harness the power of citizen…

How can we best understand the future of the spaces and places we are shaping? Where can we look for ideas, insights, and knowledge?  These…

In May 2025, the Kapuzinerplanken in Mannheim was transformed into a dynamic showcase for urban greening as the city hosted Blumme & Bääm 2025, its second…