Gardens belong to Berlin. They are greening and refreshing the city, produce healthy food, protect and create fertile soils, are spaces for socializing, sharing, learning and community building. The Berlin allotment gardens started with this more than a hundred years ago and are as popular as ever. Community gardens are rather young, but their number is crowing. Both types of urban gardens get more and more under pressure because of planned constructions. The Forum Stadtgärtnern is an initiative where community gardening and allotment garden activists gather their creativity, knowledge and resources in order to protect and support the diversity of urban gardens in Berlin. The group is organizing debates, addressing papers to politicians and participating in demonstrations and actions in favour to protect urban green, a sustainable urban development and concerning climate change.

Register to our Marketplace to find out more about Forum Stadtgärtnern and other interesting initiatives: www.edicitnet.com/biz/

Friedrichstraße runs in front of our office in Berlin and is one of the most famous shopping streets in the city. Normally it is heavily trafficked, but now the city has implemented a pilot project that turns a section of the street into a strolling mile without cars. Stores and residents in this area can present themselves in so-called “showcases” (glass boxes), and well-known brands such as Rolex or Cartier show their collections and models here.

We as EdiCitNet project and resident of Friedrichstraße also take up this offer, but of course, we do not present products but the Edible City of the Future!  With a raised bed, information posters about the Living Labs in Berlin and visions of the future, we invite everyone to imagine a city next to consumption and car traffic that is edible and combines social, ecological and economic factors.

Join our Network to share your visions and ideas about the Edible City of the Future! www.edicitnet.com/join-the-network/

In order to make the EdiCitNet toolbox web more inclusive and user friendly, ICRA, UL, SEMIDE and BOKU are joining efforts to translate the web into 7 different languages: English, Catalan, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Slovenian and German. The whole web is translated, except the sections that are under
construction.
WP2 would like to include as many languages as possible. Therefore, if you want to see the EdiCitNet toolbox web in your own language, please contact us, we will be very glad to give you guidance on the translation procedure.

WP2 is very happy to announce that we have been collaborating with H2020 “sister” project NATURVATION in order to integrate the edible Nature-Based Solutions from NATURVATION ATLAS (https://naturvation.eu/atlas) into the EdiCitNet catalogue (available on (https://toolbox.edicitnet.com/).
As a result of this collaboration, on the EdiCitNet catalogue, you will find information about more than 140 ECS from NATURVATION project, including a detailed description, starting year, type of funding, social medias, webs and related documents (PDF). For more information you can access the original source (NATURVATION ATLAS).

The City Team met in order to discuss the status quo of the project and to collect ideas on how to proceed with the upcoming project tasks. An additional focus was set on public outreach of the project through a factsheet to enable political involvement.
An overview of potential edible city solutions in Berlin was given. In a next step, the City Team will comment on these projects and then choose 20 different ones, which will be further analyzed. The portfolio of different edible city solutions will be part of the masterplan in Berlin.

On 3/11/2020, the Social Education Platform Cruïlla from Ciutat Meridiana- Barcelona (PES Cruïlla) and the Solidarity Foundation of the University of Barcelona has delivered the extension university course diplomas “Social and community cooking” at the University of Barcelona, coordinated by Dr. Carme Panchón and aimed at young people aged 18 to 25 with special difficulties in socio-occupational integration, preferably in the neighborhoods in the northern part of the Nou Barris district (Ciutat Meridiana, Torre Baró and Vallbona, Barcelona).
The aim of the course has been to offer these young people professional training that facilitates their incorporation into the labour market, specifically in the hotel and catering sector.
In addition to providing them with the necessary theoretical and practical skills in this sector, the course has offered students tools to develop attitudes and skills that contribute to their personal growth and social and employment integration.
The training has included mentored support, has encouraged self-employment and entrepreneurship, and has facilitated the contact of young people with companies in the sector.
The collaboration between PES Cruïlla and the University of Barcelona is part of the Socio-educational Intervention Program that the UB Solidarity Foundation is developing in the North Zone of Barcelona.