On 13 July 2021, RRA Porin, as a Blue Green City project partner, organised the 4th stakeholder meeting in Rijeka in the form of an event – a small conference of up to 20 people in line with Covid-19 restrictions, followed by a discussion.
During the part of the conference, the representative of RRA Porin presented the Interreg Europe Blue Green City project and the detected problems in the green infrastructure of the Rijeka region, while from the City Department for Development, Urbanism, Ecology and Land Management, the Director of the Directorate for Development, Urbanism and Ecology presented the Green Infrastructure of the City of Rijeka, in order to encourage further discussion on how to improve the planning and implementation of green and blue infrastructure (BGI) in the City of Rijeka.
The discussion focused primarily on the improvement of urban blue and green infrastructure, in order to examine the possibilities of efficient planning and linking of green infrastructure at the strategic, spatial-planning, implementation and financial level of the city of Rijeka with the key issue of recognizing the importance of implementing the concept of green infrastructure in order to strengthen resilience and adaptation to climate change in urban areas and as a carrier of the identity of space that contributes to the development of the economy and society as a whole.
During the meeting, RRA Porin also conducted a survey through a short questionnaire to collect information from key stakeholders on the understanding of the concept of green and blue infrastructure and knowledge of relevant existing local documents for the development and implementation of BGI, as well as to examine the interest in encouraging cross-sectoral cooperation or initiatives to establish a working group that would include all stakeholders in the field of the establishment, planning and implementation of green urban infrastructure.
Prior to the fourth stakeholder meeting, RRA Porin organised the 3rd stakeholder meeting in January 2021 in the form of a one-on-one telephone call (in accordance with the measures and restrictions due to Covid-19 at the time) with representatives of the Department of Development, Urbanism, Ecology and Land Management of the City of Rijeka to discuss the recent Study of Green Infrastructure of the City of Rijeka, as an expert basis representing an integral form of viewing open spaces and the basis for the development of the Green Infrastructure Strategy of the City of Rijeka, with the aim of sustainable development of the city space that recognizes and gives importance to green and open spaces and their numerous functions (ecological, social, economic, protective and urban morphological).
