Grow the City

⚠ Only few places still available for our training 🌱 Dear #urbandeveloppers, #realestate, #publicauthorities, #municipalities, #architects, #engineers, #constructors, #urbanfarmers... this reminder is for you! Don't miss the chance to participate to our circular urban farms #training, and to equip yourself with the necessary skills to design, build, and manage your own #CircularUrbanFarm, ready to thrive in the real world! ⚡️ Acquire new skills and explore innovative circular solutions ⚡️ Meet people to create synergies ⚡️ Learn from experts in urban agriculture and gain insights and practical skills from professionals This edition is free of charge thanks to the support of Interreg North-West Europe (NWE). 📅 Start date : 7th February 2025 🕓 Register before January 30th to secure your spot for the training! 👉 https://lnkd.in/ekZmCYpb 👈

⚠ Only few places still available for our training 🌱 Dear #urbandeveloppers, #realestate, #publicauthorities, #municipalities, #architects, #engineers, #constructors, #urbanfarmers... this reminder is for you! Don't miss the chance to participate to our circular urban farms #training, and to equip yourself with the necessary skills to design, build, and manage your own #CircularUrbanFarm, ready to thrive in the real world! ⚡️ Acquire new skills and explore innovative circular solutions ⚡️ Meet people to create synergies ⚡️ Learn from experts in urban agriculture and gain insights and practical skills from professionals This edition is free of charge thanks to the support of Interreg North-West Europe (NWE). 📅 Start date : 7th February 2025 🕓 Register before January 30th to secure your spot for the training! 👉 https://lnkd.in/ekZmCYpb 👈

What do you know about urban farming techniques? 🌱🌿 Let’s dive back into a key topic from the Groof project: Greenhouses! Urban greenhouses are more than just food production spaces – they’re innovation hubs redefining sustainable agriculture. But how can we maximize their potential? Urban greenhouses are transforming cities into sustainable food hubs, but success depends on smart strategies: 🌾 Innovative systems Rooftop farming often relies on soilless techniques such as hydroponics, aeroponics, or aquaponics. These systems optimize resource use, enabling year-round production in minimal space while reducing environmental impact. 🌱 Smart crop selection Choosing the right crops is critical and depends on local market demand, consumer preferences, agronomic conditions, growing systems, and technical expertise. Leafy greens, herbs, and small fruits like tomatoes or strawberries thrive in controlled rooftop environments, ensuring high yields. 🔍 Considering the surroundings If maximizing food production is the goal, technical decisions must align with the surrounding environment. Factors such as shadows from nearby structures, weather patterns, and temperature variations significantly influence greenhouse design, equipment, and plant selection. For rooftop greenhouses, building characteristics like weight-bearing capacity and building integration of the greenhouse are equally crucial. Poor planning can drastically affect the performance of the greenhouse, so careful analysis is essential! Want to learn more about Greenhouse? Dive into: https://lnkd.in/gC52FnFJ https://lnkd.in/gMGZcA9Y And don't forget to register to our training : https://lnkd.in/ekZmCYpb !

Chère communauté, Et si on parlait de l'importance de l'agriculture urbaine ? 🌾🏙️ L’agriculture urbaine n’est pas qu’une simple tendance, et non ! C’est une réelle réponse à certains des plus grands défis auxquels nos villes sont confrontées aujourd’hui. En intégrant la production alimentaire dans les espaces urbains tels que les toits, les sous-sols ou les terrains vacants, l'agriculture urbaine permet d'offrir des aliments locaux et frais, et aide à améliorer la qualité de l’air, à réduire les îlots de chaleur et à créer des espaces verts bénéfiques pour le bien-être mental et physique. Pourquoi c’est essentiel en quelques exemples : • La résilience face au climat • Un approvisionnement alimentaire local • Une diminution des coûts liés au transport et à la récupération des déchets • Un renforcement des liens communautaires via des projets collectifs L'agriculture urbaine apporte à la ville de nombreux avantages écologiques, sociaux, et économiques. En l'intégrant dans la planification des villes, nous construisons des environnements urbains plus sains, durables et collectifs. Êtes-vous prêt·e à repenser nos villes avec l’agriculture urbaine ? 🌿 Ne manquez pas notre formation Grow the City qui commence en février : https://lnkd.in/ekZmCYpb !

Registrations for our training are now open! 🥳 Whether you are an urban planner, a public authority, a constructor, an architect, a (bio)engineer or a farmer, the training is made for you! 💪 Acquire the skills to design, build, and/or manage a circular urban farm 🌐 Meet people to create synergies 👩🏫 Learn from experts in urban agriculture and gain insights and practical skills from professionals If you are interested in urban farms and circularity, now is the right time to get involved as the first edition is supported and financed by Interreg North-West Europe! Don't miss it out! 👀 More information on https://lnkd.in/ekZmCYpb

🌱🚀 Want to learn more about the training ? 🌍🏙️ Grow the City aims to empower urban development stakeholders with the skills needed to build more resilient and sustainable cities, through urban farming. 🌿🏡 What offers the training: - Business models: discover strategies that balance profitability with social and ecological targets, and learn from failures stories. - Eco-friendly construction: get an insight about the integration of greenhouses or other production infrastructures in urban buildings using recyclable and reusable materials following the cradle-to-cradle approach, and learn how to use the city to maximize agriculture: rainwater from rooftops, waste energy, etc. - Innovative growing systems: explore new systems as hydroponics, aquaponics, soil-based systems and Integrated Food and Energy Systems (IFES), that emphasize productivity and low environmental impact. - Circular principles: learn how to minimize waste, reduce energy inputs, and implement sustainable farming practices. - Energy & water management: learn the basics of efficient energy and water use and the underlying rules and principals of resource and food system design to enhance the farm's sustainability. Why joining ? • Learn from experts: gain insights from professionals in urban farming. • Hands-on experience: engage in practical sessions designed to apply circular concepts. • Network with peers: connect with like-minded persons committed to sustainability. Who Should Attend? Urban developers, real estate, public authorities, municipalities, architects, engineers, constructors, urban farmers Learn more about the training program : https://lnkd.in/ekZmCYpb

🌱🚀 Discover the "CUF Training" Project! 🌍🏙️ Today we would like to introduce our "CUF Training" project, funded by the Interreg North-West Europe program ! The project aims to promote the transition to circular and resource-efficient cities. Through this project, we’re developing the first training program for urban development actors to integrate circular urban farms into buildings and urban spaces : Grow the City. 🥬 As you may already know, the CUF Training projects comes from the GROOF project, which had as objectives to design rooftop greenhouses for local food production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The goal of the project is to capitalize on the knowledge and experiences gained from the GROOF project to develop and implement training in circular urban farms. This effort led to the creation of the "Grow the City" training program as part of the CUF Training project. Our program stands out for its approach, with online learning modules and hands-on training sessions conducted in four partner countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and Germany. This project is possible thanks to seven partners located across North-West Europe. Each is taking part in this project by putting their own skills to good use ! You may recognize them as they were also involved in the Groof project ✨ - Groupe One : specialists in transitioning to a sustainable economy, focusing on localization, food systems and circular economy - IFSB-Institut de Formation Sectoriel du Bâtiment : training leaders in the construction sector, and in energy and carbon transition - Le Bureau d'Etudes de Gally : experts in gardens, landscape and urban agriculture designs taking account of biodiversity - Institute for Applied Material Flow Management : pioneers in energy and material flow management - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech : specialists in urban agriculture and sustainable food systems, advancing innovative production and biodiversity solutions. - ASTREDHOR - Institut des professionnels du végétal : experts in research and innovation, and supporting professionals with expertise, training and advice - ebf GmbH : specialist for energy management and integrated food and energy systems Join us on this journey to build greener and more circular cities! 🌎 🔗 Learn more about the Interreg project : https://lnkd.in/ebxKg7WU #growthecity #InterregNWE #UrbanAgriculture #circulareconomy #SustainableCities

  ✨A new chapter begins ! 🌱    Dear Groof Community,     You may remember our last post concerning your needs on urban farming. Well, we have a big announcement for you !    After the work on Groof project, we are glad to present you our new training program, Grow the City, developed through our new NWE Interreg project: CUF Training.     Grow the City offers you an online and offline training on circular urban farming : construction, energy, business model, water, growing systems and more.     Therefore, for now on, this page changes its name into Grow the City 🎉    We will continue to share with you some technical content on sustainable groundless urban farms, and we are absolutely thrilled about that!     Stay tuned!     For more information on the Interreg project :  🔗 https://lnkd.in/ebxKg7WU For more information about the training :  🔗 https://lnkd.in/euKGznzB   Groupe One IFSB-Institut de Formation Sectoriel du Bâtiment Les Jardins de Gally ASTREDHOR - Institut des professionnels du végétal @EBF Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech @IfaS #GrowTheCity #InterregNWE #Urbanfarming #circulareconomy #sustainablecities

🌱 Help us shape our future project ! 🌱 Dear GROOF Community, We know how passionate you are about urban farming, and we need your input! 🔎 We're conducting a survey to understand the essential needs for developing sustainable groundless urban farms that can tackle climate challenges and resource depletion. Whether it's for identifying key skills, necessary tools, or essential training, your insights are crucial for our new project meant for developing urban farming initiatives. 👉 Please take a few minutes to share your opinion by completing our survey before the 1st of July. 🔗 Circular Urban Farming survey : https://lnkd.in/gZgWyqnh Thank you for your time and support! #LetsGROOF #agricultureurbaine #UrbanAgriculture #sustainableagriculture #groofproject #recolte #urbanagriculture #sustainability #ifsb #ebf #projet #serreentoiture #news #experience #serre #greenhouse #groof #sustainableagriculture #sustainable Interreg North-West Europe (NWE)