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Programme of WGIC26, held from 27 to 30 October 2026.

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Sessions: 61Days: 2Rooms: 5Tracks: 21

Gala Dinner & Awards

Date & time
October 27, 2026 — 7:00 PM
Location
Tierra Brava Restaurant
Carrer de Casanova, 133, 08036 Barcelona
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Program

The evening’s programme began with the presentation of the Awards, followed by dinner.

Access

Due to venue capacity restrictions, attendance was strictly reserved for confirmed guests. Invitations did not include a guest or plus-one. A quick guest list verification was required at the entrance.

The congress program was structured over several days to maximize participation and learning.

Days one and two included parallel sessions on selected topics, allowing each participant to choose according to their interest and profile.

Technical visits and university facilities

The third day was dedicated to technical visits, offering a firsthand view of exemplary green infrastructure projects in Barcelona.

An additional fourth day focused on innovation and research in green infrastructure, organized by the University of Lleida.

Opening Ceremony & Welcome

Green Infrastructure Policies

Living architecture Barcelona

"Boosting urban resilience through a well designed policy and regulatory framework"

Climate change impacts on urban green infrastructure: A species distribution modeling approach for Parco Le Vallere, Turin, Italy

Current and perspective role of non-human actors in nature-based solutions (NBS) projects

Approaches to Communicating Disaster Risk Information Related to Climate Change: Focusing on a Survey in Japan

Workshop LIFE-New European Bauhaus

Educational Environments as Living Systems: Evaluating Nature-Based Solutions through Bioclimatic, Social and Pedagogical Lenses

Ecological building envelopes: thermal comfort and well-being in the ECOLOPES project

Enhancing the safety of a full-scale constructed wetland for urban water reuse: a data-driven early-warning approach

Energy Demand of Buildings With Green Façades: Key Parameters and Their Interactions

From private yards to urban resilience: Designing micro-scale green infrastructure for healthier indoor environments

Green Curtain Systems: Components and Applications in Retrofit Buildings

Quality of vegetables in urban horticulture: case study from rooftop garden

Supporting urban renaturing governance through explainable artificial intelligence: Operationalising Ostrom’s frameworks for decision support

From Green to Regenerative Applying the Regenerative Roof Scorecard

From parking lot to urban park: microclimate modelling reveals synergistic cooling effects in Antwerp

The role of green infrastructure in enhancing post-conflict urban resilience: a case study of Beirut

A regenerative design approach to green infrastructure

Green façades in urban development: noise reduction and urban comfort

Rethinking Air Quality: Mapping Urban Odours to Assess the Impact of Green Infrastructure on Well-being

Balneário dos Ingleses: Case study

Holistic review of implementing nature-based solutions into sustainability assessment methods

Urban green parks as wellness sanctuaries in a Latin-American city

Know and Feel the Experience of One of the First Tallest Green Walls and the First Largest Green Wall with IoT System in the World

Soil respiration and microbe activity on a solar‑integrated green roof

Urban heat risk indices and health outcomes: Evidence from a sensitivity analysis of hazard–vulnerability weighting in Milan

Installation and maintenance of green façades during heatwaves

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

WGIN - AWARDS ceremony

Unlocking Nature-Based Solutions through Private Water Replenishment: A New Financing Paradigm

Assessing Sustainable Urban Stormwater Management: A Comparative Study of Green Roofs and Detention Basins Strategies in Three US Cities

A Multi-Indicator Assessment of the Post-Conflict Transformation of Urban Green Infrastructure as a Basis for Sustainable Urban Recovery Planning.

How Nature Can Make Us Healthier and Happier - Biophilic Design Theory and Practice

Workshop Health and Well-being

Hungarian Green Space Certification: A Long-Awaited Tool for Understanding the True Value of Green Spaces

Beyond Land Cover: Landscape Pattern and Surface Runoff in a Rapidly Urbanising Watershed

Living roof performance in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand: Evidence and enabling pathways for cooler, greener, more water-resilient cities

Understanding the behavior of fire in green roofs

Challenges to Green Infrastructure in Madrid: A Key Performance Indicator-Nature Based Solution Analysis

Combining green roofs and green walls for integrated water management

From Equations to Action: Shaping the Green Strategy of Providencia (Chile) through Science and Community

BIG4LIFE. Building-Integrated Greenery (BIG): Collaborative xeriscaping-based maintenance and monitoring in Mediterranean cities

Testing the new european bauhaus indicators: beautiful, sustainable and inclusive green roofs

Getting developers to fall in love with green roofs

Rooftop Green Infrastructure in Portugal: Governance Challenges and Policy Insights from Spain

Governance of nature-based solutions for urban stormwater management: Comparative insights across city scales in Europe

Global minds, local roots: Lessons from a cross-continental workshop on equitable green infrastructure

Green roof in Nordic climatic zones

Reading peripheral landscapes through river-based green infrastructure: A comparative study

Green roof water retention performance: A cross-climate study in Brazil and Germany

Landscape as infrastructure: delivering multi-scale green infrastructure in the global south

High-performance bioreceptive concrete for vertical greening: concept and design

Retrofitting Vegetated Canopy Structures for Climate-Responsive Street Shading: The Vienna Climate Canopy (Wiener Klima Himmel) Case Study

Hearing the Signals, Closing the Feedback Loops: Needs-Based, Automated Irrigation and Fleet-Scale Monitoring as the Precondition for Green Infrastructure to Deliver the Full Range of Benefits Cities Now Need from It

Quantifying the environmental benefits of a biosolar green roof in Australia’s newest city in 100 years

How can rooftop-based water management achieve multi-functional and zero-discharge urban design?

Towards an Integrated Environmental - Socio-Economic Assessment Methodology for Rooftop Mitigation Strategies (RMS) - "An Interactive Behavioural Game Theory and Gamified System Dynamics Experiment"

2026 Top 10 list of hot trends in living green architecture: Biophilia and how nature makes us happier

Green for Health

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