Floating islands as biodiversity pit stops and pollution cut outs towards more resilient cities

This project is tackling the common challenge – pollution reduction and biodiversity inclusiveness in the urban environment. The overall objective of the project is to develop, install and pilot floating islands on urban waterbodies (i.e. lakes and ponds in populated areas or with certain anthropogenic pressure) as a part of city green infrastructure with a particular function: to enhance biodiversity in the impacted environment (birds and invertebrates - insects); to mitigate anthropogenic pollution (e.g., microplastics, organic contaminants, heavy metals); to raise awareness about urban green infrastructure as a refuge for biodiversity in the city. The main output we are going to produce will be a jointly developed BioFloat solution - know-how on floating islands development and maintenance for certain environmental challenges and awareness raising. Floating islands will represent jointly prepared and tested pilots - floating islands concepts both in Latvian and Estonian waterbodies. The ones who will benefit from outputs will be the following target groups - local authorities and society at large. Our approach is to build floating islands (2 in Latvia and 1 in Estonia) and place them in a human-impacted environment, i.e., lake or pond in the city or nearby city with explicit anthropogenic impact.Development of the BioFloat solution

Floating islands piloting

Communication and outreach