{"id":4642,"date":"2020-12-10T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asymmetric-agency.liquid-themes.com\/staging\/?page_id=4642"},"modified":"2025-09-18T02:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:09:03","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eupolis.piraeus.gov.gr\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We focus on creating healthier, greener urban spaces in Piraeus through Nature-Based Solutions that improve public health, enhance biodiversity, and foster community well-being.<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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euPOLIS Piraeus is part of a Horizon 2020 international project, applying innovative Nature-Based Solutions at Akti Dilaveri \u2013 Mikrolimano and Ralleia Schools, showcasing how urban design can directly improve citizens\u2019 quality of life.<\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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euPOLIS GOALS <\/h3>\t\t\t\t

The euPOLIS aims to improve Public Health in cities by introducing nature-based solutions into urban planning practices.<\/strong><\/p>That means that our experts are taking the best from nature\u2019s ways to regulate and improve biodiversity by incorporating various BLUE (water) and GREEN (plant life) aspects of nature into urban open spaces where it can intensify people\u2019s wellbeing in terms of climate, ecological and socio-economic conditions. Our methodology introduces several analytical procedures making the process more transparent and open to stronger IT support. One of the specialties is the planning of urban spaces populated with vegetation with a proven beneficial impact on cardiovascular, respiratory, and metabolic diseases. The philosophy is deeply grounded in the extensive and permanent citizens\u2019 participation in urban-planning processes.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Unlike the \"gray\" infrastructural solutions that rely on finite, unrecyclable, and more often than not, harmful materials, the NBS<\/span> includes restoring and conserving natural biodiversity in the endeavor to harness rising environmental issues in urban cores.<\/span><\/p>

And while the traditional approach may appear quicker to solve many of the issues, it has to be maintained and restored, again causing more damage, waste, and vast interventions. NBS has to be kept up as well, but its maintenance is way less costly in money and finite natural resources, and it\u2019s self-sustainable to the most extent. As a plus, it is proven that staying surrounded by natural elements improves our physical and mental health, thus magnifying all our capabilities.<\/p><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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CITIZENS EXPERTS <\/h3>\t\t\t\t

We believe citizens are the ultimate experts on matters of the quality of their lives.<\/span><\/p>

With participation being one of the crucial pillars of the euPOLIS philosophy, the Front-Runner cities are in a constant co-creative process that puts together a team of professionals with the genuine, grounded experience and needs of local citizens. That means collecting their insights, emotions, hopes, and even psycho-physical state (through wearing special biometrical devices) and including them in the designing processes of implementing the NBS. All these steps aim to help cities embrace the transition to bottom-up decision-making methods and empower citizens to participate in inventing their public environment.<\/p><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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TECHNOLOGY <\/h3>\t\t\t\t

Alongside nature\u2019s solutions being reinaugurated into urban cores, the euPOLIS uses innovative technologies to support this process:<\/span><\/p>

  1. The myFeel application - Existing and New Functions tailored to the euPOLIS project (Sentio Labs<\/a>)<\/li>
  2. The euPOLIS BioAssist application (BioAssist<\/a>)<\/li>
  3. The Urban Water simulation tools (NTUA - UWMH Lab<\/a>)<\/li>
  4. The network of permanent sensors (Plegma<\/a>)<\/li>
  5. The euPOLIS 4D Visualisation module (GSH<\/a>)<\/li>
  6. The euPOLIS Master Planning Methodology, the GDPM (EnPlus<\/a>)<\/li>
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    Piraeus, Greece<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Piraeus is a port city within the Athens urban area in the Attica region of Greece. The port of Piraeus is the chief port in Greece, and among five biggest passanger port in Europe, serving about 20 million passengers annually. Piraeus is among the busiest ten ports in Europe in terms of container traffic, and is the busiest container port in the Eastern Mediterranean. The University of Piraeus is one of the largest universities in Greece, and includes the country's second-oldest business school, as well as the oldest academic department dedicated to the study of finance.<\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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