{"id":2923,"date":"2025-09-08T12:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unite.pwr.edu.pl\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:49:00","slug":"restoring-urban-rivers-a-unite-project-for-a-flood-resilient-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unite.pwr.edu.pl\/en\/restoring-urban-rivers-a-unite-project-for-a-flood-resilient-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring urban rivers: a Unite! project for a flood-resilient future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mb-4 row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-12\">\n<p class=\"description\"><strong>Flood-Resilient Urban Rivers, lead by UPC, with KTH, POlito, TU Graz, Aalto and INP-UGA plans to establish a Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) as a hub for joint research and the exchange of best practices in this field.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya \u2013 BarcelonaTech (UPC<\/strong>) is leading the project\u00a0<strong>\u201cFlood-Resilient Urban Rivers: A Collaborative Approach to Restoration\u201d, one of the initiatives selected in the 2025 call of the Unite! Seed Fund programme<\/strong>, which supports collaborative research projects across the Unite! European university alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the project is\u00a0<strong>to improve the resilience of urban rivers to flooding<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 a growing challenge driven by climate change and urbanisation. The approach focuses on river restoration and the use of nature-based solutions (NBS): sustainable strategies designed to restore the ecological balance of rivers while protecting cities.<\/p>\n<p>UPC will contribute expertise in fluvial morphology and urban planning. The research also brings together an interdisciplinary consortium of six other Unite! partner universities: TU Graz, Austria (hydraulic engineering and urban hydrology); INP-UGA, France (numerical modelling of sediment transport); Aalto University, Finland (environmental hydraulics); KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (nature-based solutions); and Politecnico di Torino, Italy (remote sensing and morphodynamics).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite-unite border-start border-light-subtle border-5 py-2 ps-3 mb-3 h5\">\n<div class=\"mb-1\">\n<p>\u201cThe project seeks the convergence of sustainability and urban resilience: river restoration should not only focus on recovering nature but also ensure viable environments, prepared to withstand the threat of floods, exacerbated by climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"text-secondary d-flex align-items-center\">\u2013Francisco N\u00fa\u00f1ez, UPC professor<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"activities-and-objectives\" tabindex=\"0\">Activities and objectives<\/h2>\n<p>The project will run from 2025 to 2026 and includes two in-person workshops with field visits: one in Barcelona (February 2026), to visit examples of urban river restoration projects; and another in Graz (June 2026), to discuss the relevance of an artificial island as a recreational space in an urban river.<\/p>\n<p>The team also plans to establish a\u00a0<strong>Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE)<\/strong>, which will serve as a hub for joint research and the exchange of best practices. In addition, the consortium will design a research and fundraising plan targeting European programmes such as Horizon Europe and the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions.<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to promote the\u00a0<strong>active involvement of young researchers and doctoral candidates<\/strong>, as well as joint PhD supervision within the framework of collaboration. The consortium will also organise a webinar and thematic sessions at international conferences such as River Flow 2026 (Greece) and the IAHR Europe Congress 2026 (Sweden).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flood-Resilient Urban Rivers, lead by UPC, with KTH, POlito, TU Graz, Aalto and INP-UGA plans to establish a Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) as a hub for joint research and the exchange of best practices in this field. 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