Event 1

This first event has been organized by Orchis Ingénierie, from the 27th to the 31st of March 2017, at Pôle Réalis, Montpellier, France.

This was the launching program of the Progress Project. These 5 days of training focused mainly on green spaces management and implementation techniques, but also on specific points about alternative landscaping and functionnalities such as green and blue belts, green roofs, local water management and vegetation engineering…

Day 1 | Opening & Presentations

Role and benefits of urban green spaces (F. Gorce and C. Verducci, UNEP)

Green urban spaces can bring valuables economics, as well environmental and health benefits. Unep – Les Entreprises du Paysage presents a study carried out by the firm Asterès, directed by Nicolas Bouzou, on the economic valuation of green spaces and what they report to citizens and communities.

• UNEP Presentation : Role and benefits of urban green spaces
• Infographics – Top French Green cities in 2017
• Infographics – The benefits of urban green spaces

Managing green and natural spaces in cities (P. Lafforgue, HORTIS)

Hortis is a professional network thagt aims to share and capitalize green space management in cities. P. Lafforgue presents here how the french cities plans and manages green spaces, from possibilities to way of organizations, and gives the example of Narbonne where he is the green spaces director.

• Managing green and natural spaces in cities 1/2 (P. Lafforgue, Hortis)
• Managing green and natural spaces in cities 2/2 (P. Lafforgue, Hortis)

Nature and urbanism (M. Amiot and J. Dezeuze, LAAT)

From ecology to sustainable city, the LAAT Agency presents what are the new ways to organize and think urbanism.

• LAAT – Presentation
• Presentation – Nature in urbanism

How to reinforce the social function of green spaces ? (M.-F. Ringeard, Ville de Nantes)

M.F. Ringeard presents here the ways for the collectivity and the municipality to manage nature and green spaces in cities, regarding the social demand and with collective intitiatives. Example in the French city of Nantes.

• The Social Function of Urban Gardening 1/3
• The Social Function of Urban Gardening 2/3
• The Social Function of Urban Gardening 3/3

Participatory workshops

Plant Engineering : Water Management and Urban Planning in the Mediterranean Area (W. Fettig, Orchis Ingénierie)

• WORKSHOP : Water management and urban planning in the Mediterranean (W. Fettig, Orchis Ingénierie)
• Green roofs (M. Lacaille, Adivet)

Case studies

Presentation of SRCE LR and its 3D tool (Simon. Woodworth, Espaces Naturels Biodiversité, LA REGION OCCITANIE)

• SRCE 3D Tool_Languedoc-Roussillon (S. Woodworth, Région Occitanie)
• SRCE Presentation (S. Woodworth, Région Occitanie)
• Shared Urban Garden Orchards (VERPOPA)

Participatory workshops

1. City and ecological innovation (A.Neagu, Datcha)
2. Natural spaces in the city: biodiversity and urban wasteland (T. Suisse, Ecologistes de l’Euzière)

Case studies

• The bats of Montpellier. Implementation of monitoring Vigie Nature. Adaptation of the pedestrian protocol and monitoring of green spaces.

> Montpellier-Chiros: participatory inventory and nocturnal biodiversity (C. Lemarchand, Ecologistes de l’ Euzière)

> Plan_nichoir_Bats

• Examples of Urban Oasis (S. Girault, Oasis Citadines)

Framework and specificities of the IAE (Yves Bailleux Moreau, president of la fédération des entreprises d’insertion occitanie)

• The founding principles and evolution of the framework (legal framework, statutes, financing …)
• The social project of the IAE structure and its values
• The stages of the insertion process: references and practices

> IAE (fédération des entreprises d’insertion occitanie)