URBACT III Ru:rban – Resilient Urban Agriculture and Landscapes

The project ‘Ru:rban – Resilient Urban Agriculture and Landscapes’, is an URBACT III initiative from the City of Rome. The project has as an objective to transfer elements of the Good practice of Rome on Urban Gardens Management to 6 other cities (A Coruna, Vilnius, Thessaloniki, Krakow, Caen and Loures). Thessaloniki, being part of the 100 Resilient cities network, and with a resilience strategy that included the promotion of urban community gardens took the opportunity and participated in the network.
The project was based on knowledge transfer through physical transnational meetings that focused on 3 elements: Capacity Building for UG management (including case study visits), Garden(organ)iser training for Urban Community Gardens managers and initiators, and Governance through a city regulation for community gardens.
The seven cities involved in the network exchanged knowledge and strengthened capacity through on well‐structured methodologies to improve the impact of their urban gardening practices focusing on the policy topic management.
The project involved a wide range of stakeholders (civil servants, Gardeners, garden Organizers, University) that have a strong relation with existing, as well as newly established gardens in the participating cities, but also people responsible for the management of city gardens on behalf of the cities.