EdiCitNet Aims

Our project is your project!

Together we can mitigate climate change, give you the chance to empower change
in your urban lifestyle, engage in you urban farming events and much more!

Explore our website and learn how to create green business and get inspired by our start-ups.

Learn about techniques and technologies for closed loops systems and sustainable cities.

Come together with different people in your community

to discover your edible city and join us in this global movement!

Realise
a paradigm shift towards re-use oriented, cross-sectoral management of resources in cities.

Foster
social cohesion to enhance human health and well-being.

Improve
multifunctionality, sustainability and overall ecosystem services of urban infrastructure.

Induce
growth in local green economy, creating new sustainable businesses & jobs.

Connect
people, cities, SMEs, NGOs, researcher and ECS initiatives.

“ECS create spaces for social exchange, understanding, learning, sharing and for a responsible use of resources.”

INKEN SCHMÜTZ
Urban Planner,
Senate Department of Urban Planning and Housing, Berlin

“ECS can be implemented EVERYWHERE! WE need to start being creative!!! ECS on roof tops, crossings, unused urban spaces, parks, walls...”

MAX MANDERSCHEID
Research associate,
BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna

“Whenever I walk around in a city, I spot places where food could be grown. There are so many different (edible) plants that there is always niche!.”

ALICE BISCHOF
PhD Candidate in the Business Management & Organisation Chair Group,
Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen

“ECS encourages people to develop new approaches for urban challenges. ECS bring together people with similar interest and engagement, hence ECS serve as starting point for other developments.”

IRIS KRÖGER
EdiCitNet project leader at the city administration Andernach,
City administration, Andernach

“The perfect network can show what is possible with ECS. By presenting various examples worldwide and supporting further ECS, it can contribute to making ECS more popular, which maybe later become a standard for urban planning.”

FELIX MOLLENHAUERN
Project Manager,
BuGG – German Association of Green Roofs and Green Walls, Berlin

“ECS disrupt the individualised urban lifestyle. They materialise a space for community building. They raise awareness for environmental matters...”

ALICE BISCHOF
PhD Candidate in the Business Management & Organisation Chair Group,
Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen

Oslo

Andernach

Berlin

Sant Feliu de Llobregat

Šempeter-Vrtojba

Carthage

Lomé

Rotterdam

Havana

Letchworth

Montevideo

Suzhou

EdiCitNet Aims

Our project is your project!

Together we can mitigate climate change, give you the chance to empower change
in your urban lifestyle, engage in you urban farming events and much more!

Explore our website and learn how to create green business and get inspired by our start-ups.

Learn about techniques and technologies for closed loops systems and sustainable cities.

Come together with different people in your community

to discover your edible city and join us in this global movement!

Realise
a paradigm shift towards re-use oriented, cross-sectoral management of resources in cities.

Foster
social cohesion to enhance human health and well-being.

Improve
multifunctionality, sustainability and overall ecosystem services of urban infrastructure.

Induce
growth in local green economy, creating new sustainable businesses & jobs.

Connect
people, cities, SMEs, NGOs, researcher and ECS initiatives.

“ECS create spaces for social exchange, understanding, learning, sharing and for a responsible use of resources.”

“ECS can be implemented EVERYWHERE! WE need to start being creative!!! ECS on roof tops, crossings, unused urban spaces, parks, walls...”

“Whenever I walk around in a city, I spot places where food could be grown. There are so many different (edible) plants that there is always niche!.”

“ECS encourages people to develop new approaches for urban challenges. ECS bring together people with similar interest and engagement, hence ECS serve as starting point for other developments.”

“The perfect network can show what is possible with ECS. By presenting various examples worldwide and supporting further ECS, it can contribute to making ECS more popular, which maybe later become a standard for urban planning.”

“ECS disrupt the individualised urban lifestyle. They materialise a space for community building. They raise awareness for environmental matters...”

Oslo

Andernach

Berlin

Sant Feliu de Llobregat

Šempeter-Vrtojba

Carthage

Lomé

Rotterdam

Havana

Letchworth

Montevideo

Suzhou

EdiCitNet Aims

Our project is your project!

Together we can mitigate climate change, give you the chance to empower change in your urban lifestyle, engage in you urban farming events and much more!

Explore our website and learn how to create green business and get inspired by our start-ups.

Learn about techniques and technologies for closed loops systems and sustainable cities.

Come together with different people in your community

to discover your edible city and join us in this global movement!

Realise a paradigm shift towards re-use oriented, cross-sectoral management of resources in cities.

Fostersocial cohesion to enhance human health and well-being.

Improvemultifunctionality, sustainability and overall ecosystem services of urban infrastructure.

Inducegrowth in local green economy, creating new sustainable businesses & jobs.

Connectpeople, cities, SMEs, NGOs, researcher and ECS initiatives.

“ECS create spaces for social exchange, understanding, learning, sharing and for a responsible use of resources.”

“ECS can be implemented EVERYWHERE! WE need to start being creative!!! ECS on roof tops, crossings, unused urban spaces, parks, walls...”

“Whenever I walk around in a city, I spot places where food could be grown. There are so many different (edible) plants that there is always niche!.”

“ECS encourages people to develop new approaches for urban challenges. ECS bring together people with similar interest and engagement, hence ECS serve as starting point for other developments.”

“The perfect network can show what is possible with ECS. By presenting various examples worldwide and supporting further ECS, it can contribute to making ECS more popular, which maybe later become a standard for urban planning.”

“ECS disrupt the individualised urban lifestyle. They materialise a space for community building. They raise awareness for environmental matters...”

Together we can mitigate climate change, give you the chance to empower change
in your urban lifestyle, engage in you urban farming events and much more!

Realise
a paradigm shift towards re-use oriented, cross-sectoral management of resources in cities.

Foster
social cohesion to enhance human health and well-being.

Improve
multifunctionality, sustainability and overall ecosystem services of urban infrastructure.

Induce
growth in local green economy, creating new sustainable businesses & jobs.

Connect
people, cities, SMEs, NGOs, researcher and ECS initiatives.