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URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint Maribor, Slovenia

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Circular economy

Modifier 22 June 2020

by Daniela Patti, UIA expert

US4F Journal 4: How cities should organise their food production and distribution systems

UIA Expert Daniela Patti explores Maribor’s experience with “what has happened to the urban gardens, mainly focusing on the possibilities of the future regulations to be put in place; on the trainings provided to entrepreneurs and stakeholders, as part of the Innovation Cycle; and on the Short Food distribution platform.”

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16/fév/2024

Developing a new business culture for circular economy - Zoom in 3

One of the components within the Urban Soil 4 Food (US4F) project in Maribor has been the support to innovative products in the field of circular econ...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

Économie circulaire

16/fév/2024

US4F Journal 6

The Urban Soil 4 Food (US4F) project reached its end, and this last Journal aims at reconstructing its journey and the impacts it has reached. The Cit...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

Économie circulaire

25/aoû/2021

We will smell the local specialties again!

The Urban Soil4Food project is successfully concluding at the end of November, so the project partners are preparing the final conference, where we wi...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

Économie circulaire

15/fév/2021

US4F Journal 5: Successful and active urban community gardens

UIA Expert Daniela Patti reports on the period between February and November 2020 during which “all sorts of contests were carried out for the product...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

21/avr/2020

US4F Zoom-in 2: How to setup a short food chain distribution platform?

UIA Expert Daniela Patti provides details how Maribor “wants to improve the local food distribution chain through the development of an online platfor...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

02/avr/2020

Online local food and product marketplace

With the start of the year 2020, the Inno-Rural Local! Healthy! Food! Digital platform has started to operate within the Urban Soil 4 Food project. Wi...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

05/mar/2020

US4F Journal 3: Community gardens are open!

UIA Expert Daniela Patti reports that “Urban Soil 4 Food has entered the operational phase! Just like the preparation of the soil for the planting, ju...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

08/jan/2020

UrbanSoil4Food Zoom-in 1: Soil for our future!

UIA Expert Daniela Patti “explores the importance of soil and how the project is creating new one through urban organic and construction waste (excava...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

25/juin/2019

New Urban gardens are emerging

Within the Urban Soil 4 Food project, new urban gardens will be built on 12,500 square meters, spreading under Pekrska gorca. In the gardens we will a...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

19/juin/2019

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD Journal 2: The new urban gardens are blooming

Maribor is ready to open up for the next stage of the project! ...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

13/fév/2019

Local producers have the word!

In the past few months, project partner Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship started collecting the needed data in the local environment and ...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

14/déc/2018

Urban Soil 4 Food Journal 1: Read about the project’s initial progress

Get to know what Maribor is doing in the first UIA Expert journal!...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

08/nov/2018

Landscaping for new urban gardens

The past summer period in Maribor was dedicated to arranging the planned area, where new urban gardens will be created, thanks to the pilot project Ur...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

13/juin/2018

A vertical garden will grow in Maribor`s city park

More than 7,000 m2 of urban gardens will be created within the Urban Soil 4 Food pilot project. ...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

12/mar/2018

On the project side - Interview of the Urban Soil 4 Food project

The UIA Secretariat conducted a series of interviews with the projects selected under the topic "Circular economy", with a special focus on soil manag...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Circular economy

Maribor - Slovenia

24/jan/2018

Two UIA projects for a joint kick-off!

Two UIA selected projects from Slovenia - Maribor`s Urban soil 4 food and Ljubljana`s Applause have presented themselves to public at a joint kick-off...

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