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Thomas Bauer, leader of the soil protection team within the environmental protection department of the federal state of Upper Austria, co-developed a funding programme for unsealing measures. He talks about the implementation of the program and the experiences with soil protection and soil awareness raising

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Bianca Rompato from the University of Florence/I outlines characteristics and functionalities of urban soil and how it differs from natural soil. Moreover, she presents preliminary results of her experimentation on using urban waste as substrate component for the conversion of desealed soils into green areas, making it more economically viable.

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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89650807032?pwd=cnaiZM6Qu778bUNhhqtlRxKttT05pi.1

Meeting-ID: 896 5080 7032

Kenncode: 284774

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You can watch and listen Bianca Rompatos presentation from the webinar on youtube.

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Ground:breaking Webinar 1 - Bianca Rompato

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Chiara Ferré, University of Milano-Bicocca/I, is a researcher in pedology. She speaks about the importance of soil knowledge for a proper restoration of its functionality after desealing operations and about the desealing experiments carried out in the city of Milan.

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Matthias and Constantin Rühl, urban planners in Bavaria  in two generations, advise and accompany municipalities in re-designing public spaces with their planning agency STADT & LAND. They talk about their experiences, and how attitudes towards the greening of public and private spaces are changing.

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Marion Ebster-Kreuzer

marion.ebster@cipra.org

T +423 237 53 53 02

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Susanne Reichart, Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management, works in the field of soil protection. She talks about soil life and its site-specific significance in the context of unsealing.

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Watch Elisabeth Mezes webinar presentation on youtube.

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Ground:breaking Webinar 1 - Elisabeth Meze

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Elisabeth Meze, University of Applied Sciences Kufstein/A, has more than 30 years of engagement in climate change, citizen participation and sustainability. She shares experiences in transforming urban spaces into sustainable areas and emphasizes the importance of inclusive involvement in generating sustainable unsealing projects, encouraging self-reflection over teaching.

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Maša Cvetko, architect and co-founder of the non-profit urban design studio Prostorož in Ljubljana/SI, delves into the process and impact of an unsealing project. It involved the unsealing of a former site for illegal parking in front of a kindergarten. Through innovative design and careful planning, Prostorož transformed it into a lush, water-permeable green space.

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WEBINAR 1 - 29.04.24

Characteristics and functionalities of urban soil & urban soil restoration

Bianca Rompato (I)

Inclusive stakeholder involvement in desealing activities

Elisabeth Meze (A)

>Here you find the recordings of Biancas and Elisabeths presentations

WEBINAR 2 - 07.05.24

Developing and implementing funding programmes

for desealing activities in municipalities

Thomas Bauer (A)

30 years of experience in accompanying municipalities in implementing desealing projects

Matthias & Constantin Rühl (D)

WEBINAR 3 - 13.05.24

The importance of soil literacy and the reconversion of soil after desealing

Chiara Ferré (I)

Transforming public space through desealing activities - an example from Ljubljana

Maša Cvetko (Sl)

WEBINAR 4 - 27.05.24

Soil life and its significance in the context of desealing

Susanne Reichart (D)

Desealing as an art project

Duscha Padrutt (CH)

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Duscha Padrutt, lawyer and artist, presents the collective art project www.entsiegeln.art from Switzerland. This project looks for playful, poetic ways to give visibility to the issue of unsealing.

Developed in the city of Bern, the approaches can also be realised in Alpine settlement areas.