Water

Nature-Based Water Management Delivers Ecological and Economic Benefits in Hungarian Catchments

The LIFE LOGOS 4 WATERS project demonstrates how integrated, ecosystem-based water management can improve the climate adaptation capacity of local municipalities by addressing negative water balance challenges in two Hungarian catchments. Within the project, experts of Greenformation delivered the assessment of impacted ecosystem services and the project’s economic impacts. Building on the baseline socio-economic and…

From growth to care: ecological economics and the care economy in Budapest

Ecological economists from across Hungary gathered at Corvinus University of Budapest on 27 April for an inspiring afternoon workshop and Tim Jackson’s public lecture on his latest book, The Care Economy. The event was organised by the Research Center for Ecological Economics at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS), Corvinus University of Budapest, which hosted both the…

Budapest Degrowth Doughnut in action: city actors co‑design transformative pathways

Mid April, a DAISY workshop was held in Budapest to discuss how to move the Budapest Degrowth Doughnut (BDD) from an inspiring concept toward a more operational pathway for urban governance. The core group of the BDD DAISY seed innovation includes representatives of the Budapest Municipality, Corvinus University of Budapest, and the Budapest Public Transport…

Fast renewables, strong nature laws: what Austria, Denmark and Germany can teach the EU

In the rush to scale up renewables and grids, the EU is testing how far it can stretch nature protection without breaking it. New initiatives like the Environmental Omnibus and Grids Package promise to turn decarbonisation into a competitiveness booster, yet they risk diluting biodiversity safeguards and fuelling polarisation between “green growth” and “green protection”.…

Students from Dublin explore Budapest’s Degrowth Doughnut in practice

On Thursday 19 March, a group of Planning and Environmental Management students from Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) joined GreenFormation for a short afternoon walk in Budapest to explore how degrowth donut related ideas are taking shape in the city’s neighbourhoods. The visit built on our collaboration within the Horizon Europe DAISY project, which focuses…

Co-creating urban nature futures: Co-Bio at the “Adaptation? Naturally!” Conference

On 6 February 2026, GreenFormation presented the Co-Bio project at the “Adaptation? Naturally!” UPSURGE final conference. The event provided a valuable platform for knowledge sharing and networking among international and directly EU-funded projects, featuring Hungarian case studies on nature-based solutions. GreenFormation contributed with a short Co-Bio introduction as part of the morning mini-presentations, and then…