📅 Implementation: Jun 2025 – Dec 2027 (30 months)
💶 Total Budget: €1,867,077.84 | ERDF Contribution: €1,493,662.26
🤝 Partners: 2 local authorities
🎯 Type: Standard project | Biodiversity & Green Infrastructure | RS02.7
Summary
Treeathlon helps Biharia (RO) and Derecske (HU) become greener, healthier places to live by improving ecosystem services and reducing traffic-related pollution. The project builds the capacity of local authorities, raises community awareness, especially among young people, and develops a joint action plan based on a shared assessment of environmental and mobility challenges.
Through infrastructure, tree planting, community involvement, and innovative actions such as Trees4NextGens and Bikes4Rent, the project supports practical solutions that promote nature and active mobility across both settlements.
Project Aim
To improve urban resilience and liveability in Biharia and Derecske by enhancing ecosystem services and reducing traffic-related pollution through small-scale, community-driven solutions.
Objectives
✅ Strengthen local capacity for environmentally responsible and mobility-friendly urban development
✅ Increase public and youth awareness of ecosystem services and active transport
✅ Assess ecosystem services and traffic challenges in both settlements
✅ Prepare a joint action plan for practical improvements
✅ Implement innovative actions linking green spaces and sustainable mobility
Key Activities & Results
🔹 Baseline Assessment – Study on urban ecosystem services and traffic-related pollution.
🔹 Stakeholder Engagement – 6 Treeathlon Stakeholder Meetings shaping the joint action plan.
🔹 Knowledge & Awareness – Good practice catalogue, webpage, 6 seminars, 6 online campaigns, 4 school outreach programmes
🔹 Nature-Based Solutions – 1,000 trees planted and mapped online
🔹 Active Mobility Promotion – 100 bicycles for rent with a booking interface; two Treeathlon Days promoting cycling and ecosystem services.
🔹 Green & Mobility Infrastructure - in Derecske, construction of a cycling tour centre and creation of new green spaces; in Biharia, a multifunctional pavilion, bicycle and pedestrian paths, a parking area, and outdoor relaxation spaces.
By combining greener spaces, sustainable mobility and strong community participation, Treeathlon supports cleaner air, healthier environments, and more liveable cross-border communities.
Partnership
Lead Partner: Municipality of Derecske (HU)
Project Partner: Biharia Commune (RO)
FFor more details, consult the project fact sheet and its website.
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