© TiCCA4DANU | Urban Future | 24-27 March 2026
From 24 to 27 March 2026, the TiCCA4DANU project was represented at Urban Future 2026 in Ljubljana, one of Europe’s leading conferences dedicated to sustainable urban development and climate-resilient cities. The programme included interactive sessions on the topisc os Circularity, Resilient Societies, Tactical Urbanism and more. Within the session “Make It a Business Case – How to prove resilience’ value with evidence and metrics” hosted by ICLEI TiCCA4DANU partnership represented by RDAPM that presented the case of the City of Maribor and its various activities in prevention, mitigation and good practice transfer in the field of climate change adaptation.
As the main identified risk is connected to flooding, the case of Maribor focused on various natural based solutions applied to prevention of both, which in the urban areas also contribute to reduction of heat wave impacts and improvements of air quality and even foster the public transport systems. Therefore, multiple benefits can be achieved by interventions aimed to reduce the risk people are well aware off.
Maribor has approached this strategically, as part of the Strategy for Green Transition, where the intervention logic is simple – investment in prevention costs less than mitigation of consequences, and provides a high added values across the chain of measures contributing to wellbeing of the city population. Which is exactly the stepping stone upon which the city and the region are building the Local Green Deals within the TiCCA4DANU project as well.
It’s a paradigm that Maribor is implementing and was already recognised as a good practice also outside the EU, teaching the cities and communities from the western Balkans about the strategic approach to green transition.
