Children from the 4th and 10th Kindergarten of Chalandri are also participating in the DUT MAINCODE project! 🌱 A total of 62 students, who share the same schoolyard with the children of the 4th Primary School, have started the Participatory Design program. Through this process, they learn about Climate Change, the need to green their schoolyard, and they mapped out—on an aerial photo of their school—what they like, what they don’t like, and their ideas for improving their pl

The students of the 4th Primary School of Chalandri took part in the 2nd children’s workshop of the DUT MAINCODE project 📚 from March 2nd to March 4th, 2026 📅 This 2nd workshop focused on analyzing the current condition of the schoolyard through the children’s perspective 👀 and their everyday lived experience 🏫 First, they recorded the positive 👍 and negative 👎 aspects of their schoolyard as it is today, using an observation sheet Then, they carried out a collect

Workshops at the 4th Primary School of Chalandri continue as part of the DUT MAINCODE project! Around 250 students from all grades took part in the first workshop, where they learned about the project and explored the values of participatory design as a key response to climate change 🌍🤝. The children then drew 🎨 or searched online 💻 to show what their dream schoolyard would look like 🌳🌿 and what they enjoy doing during recess ⏱️. Sports activities ⚽🏀, games 🛝, relaxin

Call for Service Provision for the Project “Green Routes Intelligent Districts – GRID” (EUI) Call for service providers in Smart Tree Inventory and Digital Twin of Urban Trees The workers’ cooperative commonspace is seeking the procurement of one (1) service in the field of Smart Tree Inventory (STI) and Digital Twin modelling , for the project “Green Routes Intelligent Districts” (GRID, project code: EUI03-236), funded by the European Urban Initiative programme. The GRID pro

Call for two (2) collaboartors for the project “Green Routes Intelligent Districts” - GRID EUI GRID integrates advanced digital technologies with smart green infrastructure to mitigate urban heat risk. Urban areas in Southern Europe, such as Kallithea and Moschato-Tavros, face increasing pressures due to climate change, dense urban fabric, and limited green space. The project develops an integrated, data-driven framework combining participatory processes, environmental monito

Since January 2026 , the participatory design pilot program for the bioclimatic redevelopment has been launched at the 4th Primary School of Chalandri . 📍 Following the local kick-off event and the selection of the schools participating in the program, the 1st stakeholders’ workshop took place on Monday, February 2, 2026 . Parents, guardians, and teachers from the 4th Primary School , as well as the 4th and 10th Kindergartens , joined an open session where: 🔹 the project’s

Can a bird, a cat, and a student agree on how to redesign a university campus to be greener and more climate-resilient? Let’s find out together at the Nature-Based Solutions Design Game ! 🗓 Friday, December 5 🕐 13:00 – 15:00 📍 Multipurpose Hall, Agricultural University of Athens The NBS Design Game is a cooperative role-playing and design workshop , where participants take on playful roles, from student, professor, and neighborhood resident to… a bird or a campus cat a

🌿As part of the annual plenary of MAINCODE : Designing Climate-Resilient Nature-Based Refuges , on 4–5 December 2025 , we welcome our colleagues from Politecnico di Torino , the University of Southern Denmark , and Urban LAB to Athens 🏛️🌍 During the visit, the partners will explore the Municipality of Chalandri and tour urban regeneration projects developed in synergy with other initiatives such as Cultural H.ID.R.A.N.T . 🏙️✨ On Friday, 5 December 2025 , at the Agricul

We are thrilled to announce that the first outputs of our work in MAINCODE towards transforming schoolyards into Urban Climate Shelters (UCS) in Halandri and Turin are available to explore! 👉 https://main-code.eu/output/ What’s new: 📄 Theoretical Review of Urban Climate Shelters in Schoolyards 🔍 Comprehensive Stakeholder Map in Turin & Halandri 🗺️ Comprehensive Map of Vulnerability in Turin & Halandri 🙏 Many thanks to all partners and collaborators for their

🗓 Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 📍 Nea Zoi neighborhood, Aspropyrgos “From Home to School: Adding Color to the Route” In the spring of...