🌿 How Can Urban Projects Meet DNSH Requirements and Strengthen Climate Resilience?

At the European Urban Initiative (EUI) training in Celje, Envirodual d.o.o. focused on two key questions that determine the quality and sustainability of urban development projects:

🔹 How can negative environmental impacts be prevented already in the project design phase?

🔹 How can projects address climate challenges in a long-term, systemic way while complying with EU requirements?

🎯 Our expert team, consisting of Katarina Pogačnik (EUI Expert) and Nataša Beltran, was joined by Theresa Fink from AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. Together, we presented criteria and approaches for integrating the horizontal principles of DNSH (Do No Significant Harm) and climate resilience into urban development projects.

🤝 Colleagues from ZaVita d.o.o., together with representatives of the Municipality of Bologna and the City of Varaždin, presented examples related to cultural heritage protection and the new EU Nature Restoration Regulation.

🗨️ The first day demonstrated that high-quality projects are built on professional processes, collaboration, and clear environmental objectives. The programme continues with workshops, connections to the values of the New European Bauhaus, and practical steps for implementation.

🙏 We would like to thank all participants and organisations that contributed to the EUI Capacity Building programme, including:

• Municipality of Celje

• IPoP – Institute for Spatial Policies

• EUI Secretariat

• DG Environment, European Commission

• Joint Research Centre, European Commission

• Ministry of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning (Slovenia)

• Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy (Slovenia)

• Ministry of Cohesion and Regional Development (Slovenia)

• Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds of the Republic of Croatia