Dear all Happy to invite you to our upcoming interesting webinar next week. Best regards Rik De Vreese European Forest Institute Online event - Thursday, 13 October 14-18 CEST; Friday, 14 October, 9-13 CEST More info and registration: https://www.eventbrite.fi/e/sustaining-cities-naturally-urban-ecosystem-res… Background Poorly planned urbanisation can lead to societal challenges as social deprivation, climate change, deteriorating health and increasing pressure on urban nature. Urban ecosystem restoration can contribute to lessen these challenges, e.g. through implementing nature-based solutions (NBS). This online webinar illustrates how Horizon 2020 projects are supporting international cooperation in knowledge creation and knowledge exchange between local authorities and researchers to promote urban ecosystem restoration in Europe, China and Latin America. This webinar is jointly organised by the projects: INTERLACE<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2…, CONEXUS<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%…, REGREEN<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%… and CLEARING HOUSE<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F… as an official side-event of the European Week of Regions and Cities 2022. This webinar brings together cities, regions and local authorities, city network representatives, policy makers, researchers, civil society and experts on nature-based solutions and urban ecosystem restoration from Europe, China and Latin America. In line with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the proposed EU Nature Restoration Law and the NetworkNature semester on nature-based solutions standards and quality, the webinar will focus on the following six topics: economics, governance, social aspects, ecological quality, environmental quality and education. Attending the webinar is free of charge. The webinar will be held in English with simultaneous translation (Spanish and Portuguese on 13 October, and Chinese on 14 October). Please register under the following link: https://www.eventbrite.fi/e/sustaining-cities-naturally-urban-ecosystem-res… Draft agenda, Thursday, 13 October (14.00 - 18.00 CEST) 14.00 - 14.20 Welcome and setting the scene 14.20-15.30 Economics of urban restoration and NBS 15.30-16.40 Policy, governance and institutional issues 16.40-16.50 Break 16.50-17:50 Social aspects 17.50-18.00 Closing Draft agenda, Friday, 14 October (9.00 - 13.00 CEST) 9.00 - 9.20 Welcome and setting the scene 9.20-10.30 Education 10.30-11.40 Environmental quality of urban restoration activities 11.40-11.50 Break 11.50-12.50 Ecological quality of urban restoration activities 12.50-13.00 Conclusions Find out more and register<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F… ______________________________________ Dr Rik De Vreese Senior Researcher and Team Leader for Urban Forestry - CLEARING HOUSE Project Coordinator Resilience Programme European Forest Institute (EFI Bonn) Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7 53113 Bonn, Germany +32 485 36 00 78 (BE) or +49 173 658 1628 (DE) http://www.efi.int<http://www.efi.int/> http://www.clearinghouseproject.eu<http://www.clearinghouseproject.eu/&g… http://resilience-blog.com<http://resilience-blog.com/> http://www.efuf.org<http://www.efuf.org/> - http://www.efuf2022.com<http://www.efuf2022.com/> http://www.uforest.eu<http://www.uforest.eu/> http://www.greenforcare.eu<http://www.greenforcare.eu/>