Potential to innovate through NbS implementation: Local Innovation Screening Tool (LIST)
The Local Innovation Screening Tool (LIST) is a webtool to support urban planners and municipal administrations in their ambitions to increase innovation in the context of nature-based solution (NbS) implementation. Specifically designed for the CLEVER Cities project, the LIST can be useful for wider stakeholders to know and better understand what kind of innovation aspects they may consider in each part of the process of NbS implementation. Material choices, methodologies, management and monitoring of the impacts are some of the items included in the tool and the areas within which cities could potentially innovate. In particular, the LIST can also be a useful tool - after establishing a given starting point and the expectations in terms of innovation - to identify the pathway over which the innovation is traced, and reflect on the levels of success related to the trajectory of the implemented actions.
Help cities to identify and understand innovation pathways, and recognise their transformation during the project lifetime.
Inspire cities to innovate in NbS implementation processes by offering a detailed list of criteria to be contemplated.
In CLEVER, the LIST has provided support to its partner cities London, Milan and Hamburg in moving towards a new and improved approach to urban regeneration through NbS. The tool also aided the partner cities of Malmö, Madrid, Larissa, Belgrade, Sfantu Gheorghe, and Quito in creating value by considering innovation in their designing of NbS and future NbS action plans.
Read our brief to learn more about innovation in the CLEVER Cities project, the LIST and its added value, and real world examples of innovation across our partner cities in the context of NbS implementation.
Defining social and well-being indicators at early stages of the project design (e.g., through surveys) enables an assessment of the potential impact of NbS for urban regeneneration.
4 M
- Methods
- Management
- Monitoring
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- Hamburg
- London
- Milan
- Madrid
Employing creative ways to engage vulnerable groups and keeping regular contact with them, in case of the impossibility of organising in-person meetings.
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- Methods
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- Hamburg
- London
- Milan
- Belgrade
Using diverse engagement techniques, considering both online and face-to-face possibilities, may ensures the right level of engagement.
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- Methods
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- Hamburg
- London
- Milan
- Belgrade
Considering micro-funding as a means of changing social power structures, acting as a catalyst of change and overcoming apathy through immediate and visual impacts.
4 M
- Methods
City
- London
Upskilling and building knowledge on co-creation processes within the cities administration team, aiming to embed these processes in future projects and programmes.
4 M
- Methods
- Management
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- London
- Milan
- Quito
Regularly assessing the relevance and applicability of the training modules, co-design activities and outreach, making the results more effective.
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- Methods
- Monitoring
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- London
- Milan
Developing comprehensive products that support replication, such as physical manuals and guidelines to support the community, specific platforms with easily accessible information, etc.
4 M
- Methods
City
- Hamburg
- Madrid
- Quito
Identifying the innovation pathways for NbS during a project and understanding how innovative solutions could be replicated. Conducting a regular self-assessment can help to determine if improvements can be made on materials, methods, management and monitoring.
4 M
- Management
- Monitoring
City
- Hamburg
- London
- Milan
- Belgrade
- Larissa
- Madrid
- Malmö
- Quito
- Sfântu Gheorghe