In collaboration with Rijkswaterstaat and the World Wildlife Fund, Rotterdam received a European subsidy within the 'LIFE' subsidy program for the demonstration of two innovative and sustainable projects that are intended to absorb climate change. The project is called 'Urban Adapt', because locations in the city have been selected where we will experiment with climate adaptation: the Zomerhofkwartier with the adjacent Agniesebuurt and the Nieuwe Maas.
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KNOWLEDGE SHARING - STUDY VISIT LIFE RADOM KLIMA POLAND
21 Oct 2021
From 19 to 21 October 2021, LIFE Urban Adapt was visited by a delegation of colleagues from the Polish LIFE project LIFE Radom Klima. Both projects are concerned with climate adaptation in urban areas. The aim was to exchange knowledge and experiences. After presentations of both projects, we visited all LIFE sub-projects…
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Climate adaptation in ZOHO – video
October 19, 2021
In the inner-city area of ZoHo, the climate adaptation activities are as good as finalized. It has led to beautiful results, that will also be used for the area development of other parts of Rotterdam. In this video you can see more about the collaboration in ZoHo, the results and the future plans.
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Tidal parks in the Maas – video
September 19, 2021
Now that the Nassauhaven has been transformed into a tidal bank, the lessons learned will be applied in the Keilehaven and incorporated into the climate adaptive area development of other parts of Rotterdam along the Maas. See how we do it in this video.
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