This webinar is a part of a webinar series co-organised in collaboration with the China Europe Water Platform and RAI Amsterdam with a focus on Urban Water. The series aim to promoting exchanges between European and Chinese players in the water market.
The webinar will explore the perspectives of Sponge City approach to constitute a key element of urban development, present concrete cases and discuss cross-sector elements including other urban functionalities, participatory approaches and relation to the concept of Smart Cities.
The concept of Sponge Cities in China aims at managing excessive amounts of surface water, often causing severe and costly floods, by turning these water resources into urban development assets as part of an overall blue-green profile of the Future City. The webinar will explore the perspectives of Sponge City approach to constitute a key element of urban development, present concrete cases, discuss cross-sector elements including other urban functionalities, participatory approaches and relation to the concept of Smart Cities. Technology cases will focus on nature-based solutions in an urban setting and water retention.
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The EU SME Centre is a project funded by the European Union. This recording was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its content are the sole responsibility of EU SME Centre and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.
