This is a guide for decision-makers and practitioners to help manage urban forests. It focuses on effectively protecting urban forest ecosystems, ecological rehabilitation, and revitalisation.

The whiteboard animation explains in a short formula the benefits of creating rain gardens and, above all, shows, drop by drop, what happens to the water falling on the roof and seeping through the garden.

This short film presents the benefits of rain gardens and explains how to co-design them to benefit the local community.

Before the local elections in April 2024, we launched the We Ask About Green campaign, encouraging people to ask candidates questions about environmental issues. It engaged around 340 people from all over Poland. After the elections, we continued to support the participants.

We launched the Commit to Green (Commit2Green) project at the beginning of 2025. The project aims to support cities in increasing their share of urban greenery with the participation of local communities. The intermediate goal of the project is to strengthen cities’ blue-green infrastructure and climate neutrality and resilience.

In June 2024, we started a project cooperating with the Veolia Foundation. The project aims to increase knowledge about the energy efficiency of public buildings. This is the pilot edition, which will last until March 2025. The project is being implemented in partnership with the cities of Łódź and Poznań. The central part is a training program about building retrofit. The participants of the training had an opportunity to discuss with the multidisciplinary teams the energy renovation solutions for the selected buildings in Łódź and Poznań.

In 2025 we are carrying out training and advisory activities in ​​green and energy transformation. During this project, we will support local governments of municipalities with up to 200,000 inhabitants from all over Poland with knowledge and good practices. We will implement it in partnership with the Shipyard Foundation.

The assessment tool, and a manual on how to use it, were created in response to the need to consider climate crisis in participatory spatial planning processes. It helps to examine the potential of a given place for climate change adaptation.

Between 2020 and 2025, we realised the INTERLACE project financed by the Horizon 2020 programme. The project aimed to support cities from Europe and Latin America in effectively restoring and rehabilitating urban ecosystems to make cities more livable, resilient, and inclusive. The project created many mechanisms for the exchange of experiences and active cooperation at the local, regional, and global levels.

In January 2024, we launched a new project under the Horizon Europe Programme Climate, Energy, and Mobility. FuturHist aims to develop replicable retrofit solutions for historic buildings of the future. The project’s ambition is to shift the focus from individual buildings to building typologies. It will help create a more sustainable and energy-efficient built environment while preserving historic structures.

On November 7–8, 2023, the River in the City conference was held in Warsaw, summarizing the two-year project Urban River Valleys Ecosystems. The event was an opportunity to disseminate good practices and experiences collected during the project implementation.

On 14 September 2023, the last co-design workshop for the CLEARING HOUSE project took place. It aimed to discuss the relevance and methods of green space surveys. Like the previous meeting, this one also dealt with river parks. This time, however, the focus was on residents’ perceptions of the Drwinka River Park. Representatives of municipal units, municipal companies, non-governmental organizations, and university academics attended the meeting.