Maintained and By improving ecosystem services in cities, you can get healthy environmentsWith better response capacity against major challenges, including extreme meteorological episodes.
Weld Urban areas that concentrate most of the population in our country tend to have higher temperatures than those in their environment, have a higher risk of floodingAmong other reasons due to the high degree of impenetability of soils and poorer air quality as a result of the concentration of emissions derived from energy consumption in houses, transport or industries.
Weld Green infrastructure in urban environments, such as parks and gardens rich in biodiversity, river sections, urban gardens, vertical gardens and green roofs, wooded streets, meadows and hedges, prefer biodiversity .
They also offer Countless ecosystem services related to the quality of life, health and good from its inhabitantsIncluding the reduction and control of the risk of natural catastrophes, thermal regulation and the decrease in the effect of heat island, the filtration of water and air, or the decrease in the acoustic impact.
Miteco Biodiversity Foundation
The recent calls for help promoted through the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Ecological Translation and Demographic Challenge (Miteco) – for the renaturalization of cities, the digitization of knowledge and co -financing of life projects and impulse for generating knowledge of knowledge– They have had a big welcome from the potential beneficiary entities.
This reflects the Dedication for the resilience of Spanish citiesThe impulse of green infrastructure by generating knowledge and support for life projects and the digitization of natural heritage knowledge.
They have presented 179 proposals within the framework of these three help lines, which demonstrates the growing interest in getting ahead in these areasApplying for a worldwide help from around 300 million, while the total is available for these action lines on a total of 54.6 million. For this reason, the totality of the request cannot be dealt with and the selection will be based on strict quality and relevance criteria in accordance with the requirements and objectives set in the basis of the published calls.
Renature in cities
The presentation of Applications for the call aimed at the development and consolidation of green infrastructure for the renature and resilience of Spanish citiesCo -funded by the European Regional Development Fund (Feder) has been a success.
87 Proposals have been received, which bring together 109 different entities that are distributed in 14 autonomous communities, for a total amount of 276.1 million, which represents 693% of the available budget (39.79 million). This big reception remains the high need for these calls to reality of the towns Spanish. In addition, It should be noted that under the applications three municipalities were affected by the Dana that took place in the Valencian community.
Of They have presented 81 municipalities, four provincial councils and two metropolitan areas. 46% of them are presented in transition regions, 33% in less developed regions and 21% of them in more developed regions as established.
Scientific knowledge support
The Second call is the one who is aimed at supporting programs and impulse projects of green infrastructure through knowledge generationendowed with 5.94 million, Also Co -Fasted by Federer. 41 Project proposals were received in 12 autonomous communities, with a requested global amount of 14.1 million.
A total of 49 different entities participate in these proposals, of which 24 are not profit organizations, 16 These are public universities and nine are technological centers, R&D D+I and public research organizations. Seven of these entities participate in more than one proposal.
Life Projects and Performanial Digitalization
The Last call for this package from AID tries to respond to two needs that are detected and demanded by the third environmentsSupport projects approved by the LIFE program of the European Union and promote digital transformation through the digitization of natural heritage knowledge.
A total of 51 projects were presented: 17 to the Life Project Support Line, in particular to the sub -program of nature and biodiversity, and 34 for the digitization line. The requested help is 8.9 million, while the available donation is 8 million.
In the digitization line, most proposals deal with general themes such as Biodiversity And of course heritage. Some They focus on ecosystems such as forestry, grasslands, meadows and marine meadows, while others focus on the study of aquatic flora and fauna species such as birds, hunting species or brown bears.
Also There are proposals devoted to custody of the territory, ecosystem services, ecological corridors and ethnobotanic knowledge. The proposals have been presented by private non -profit entities and organizations in both utilities. In addition, the living support line also participated in public organizations for research and public universities.
Evaluation based on technical quality
In the three calls, The selection of the projects will be carried out in a competitive coincidence regime, with an assessment system based on the technical quality of the proposals, their environmental and social impact and strategic criteria such as their sustainability over time and their replicability. Moreover, the integration of gender equality and opportunities will be taken into account.
The resolutions of the calls are planned for September this year and the projects must be completed in a maximum of three years from the resolution date.