URBREATH is a Horizon Europe project that aims to develop, implement, demonstrate, validate, and replicate a comprehensive, community-participation- and NBS-driven framework for urban revitalization, resilience, and climate neutrality, ultimately seeking to significantly enhance social interactions, inclusion, equity, and liveability in cities. Specifically, URBREATH aims to implement hybrid/Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), placing communities at the center of the urban decision-making process. Advanced techniques, particularly Local Digital Twins and AI, and social innovation will facilitate the achievement of its vision.
The project will have four phases:

1. Inception
2. Development
3. Piloting
4. Transition

The Inception phase will define the methodology to be followed for the project development and will deliver the project functional and technical requirements. The second phase will release the URBREATH technical framework, consisting of tools to manage the whole data value chain and to support end-users to collaborate on the design and creation of NBS to be used in the city/district. It will be used to monitor and take decisions on the NBS to be implemented/deployed in the Piloting phase (evidence-based decision making), that involves 4 Front Runner Cities in 4 different climatic zones: Cluj-Napoca (RO - Continental), Leuven (BE – Atlantic), Madrid (ES – Mediterranean), and Tallin (EE – Boreal). During the Transition phase, all the information, results and lessons learnt from the previous steps will be collected and analysed to provide recommendations and foster replication activities and the uptake of project outputs at the end of its lifespan. To this aim, 5 Follower Cities are involved: Aarhus (DK), Athens (EL), Kajaani (FI), Parma (IT), Pilsen (CZ), linked to the Front Runners for climatic zone and/or dimension.