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Urban ReLeaf at Cities Mission Conference 2025: Empowering Climate Resilience Through Citizen Data

3min • May 2025

On the 6th of May, the Urban ReLeaf team took centre stage at the Cities Mission Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania with an engaging session showcasing…

Help Shape a Greener Riga: Join the Urban ReLeaf Citizen Science Project

2min • May 2025

Riga gets hot in the summer, especially in the city centre, where there are fewer trees and buildings trap heat. Can you help change that? …

What if citizens had the power to redesign their cities?

4min • May 2025

As we move into the second year of citizen data gathering, we reflect on the inspiring achievements of our six cities: Cascais, Mannheim, Utrecht, Dundee,…

Utrecht’s Digital Twin: Advancing Data-Driven Urban Planning

4min • April 2025

What if city planners could test urban design scenarios before breaking ground? Utrecht’s Digital Twin is making this a reality, as we discovered at the…

Urban ReLeaf Charts Future of Citizen-Led Urban Greening in Cascais

4min • February 2025

The historic Casa da Cal in Cascais, Portugal set the stage for Urban ReLeaf’s 2025 General Assembly, where our partners gathered to advance our approaches…

ReLeaf Cascais: 2024 Campaign Highlights

3min • January 2025

The ‘An Urban Park for the Future’ 2024 Campaign successfully engaged over 1,000 citizens in Cascais, Portugal. Between May and December 2024, data collection was…

Athens Enhances Environmental Strategy with Air Quality Sensor Rollout

4min • October 2024

The City of Athens, as Greece’s largest municipality, faces a range of environmental challenges including heatwaves, flash floods and poor air quality. These concerns are…

Volunteers Lead the Way in Dundee’s Greenspace Strategy

3min • September 2024

Following the launch of public data collection in July, Dundee is now focused on sustaining its campaign over the coming year, with the goal of…

‘Adopt a Sensor’ Success: Riga Engages Citizens in Air Quality Monitoring

4min • September 2024

We are excited to announce a significant milestone in Riga’s urban air quality initiative: the successful installation of 20 air quality sensors across the city,…

More Than Measurements: Building Biodiversity and Community in Utrecht