The congress program has been designed to offer a complete and participatory experience, with keynote speeches, plenary sessions, panels, workshops, exhibitions, and oral and poster presentations.
Participants will be able to work on a broad spectrum of topics covering policies, technologies, market, standards, design, execution, maintenance, and training.
A significant part of the congress focuses on analyzing the impacts of green infrastructure on society and the environment, including resilience, health, biodiversity, and social cohesion.
WGIC26 emphasizes three core themes: health and well-being, post-conflict or post-disaster recovery, and resilient and just cities in the Global South.
WGIC26 Barcelona - Lleida. Main Topics
Strategies – Policies – Funding programmes
See how the regulations and funding models being written right now will decide what gets built in your city next and who's already ahead of the curve.
Technologies – Market – GI/NBS sector – Standards
The systems, materials and standards turning green infrastructure from pilot project into specifiable practice: meet the companies and researchers building them.
Projects – Design
Walk through the buildings and districts where architects, landscape architects and planners are already putting green infrastructure into practice, told by the people who designed them.
Execution – Maintenance
The part no one photographs at the ribbon-cutting: what it actually takes to keep green infrastructure alive years later. Learn it from those already managing it.
Education
Get to know the programmes training the next generation of green infrastructure professionals and find out where your own team's skills gaps really are.
Impacts
The measurable outcomes green infrastructure delivers: see the evidence, not the promises.
Climate resilience
What actually helps a city survive the next heatwave, drought or storm. Hear it from the teams who've tested it.
Water management
Real performance data from blue roofs, flood parks, rain gardens and SUDS already tested against extreme rainfall.
Green Space Management
What separates a green space that thrives for decades from one that fails after year one.
Biodiversity
Why square metres of green don't equal biodiversity and what actually does.
Air Quality
The measurable link between vegetation and cleaner air in the streets you walk every day.
Place Regeneration
How green infrastructure is turning neglected urban spaces into places where people choose to be.
Participatory Planning and Governance
Who really decides what gets built green and how communities are claiming a seat at that table.
Health and Well-being
The clinical evidence behind biophilic design, straight from the researchers proving it works.
Workshops
Green Infrastructure vs Global South
Be part of the conversation moving past one-way knowledge transfer toward genuine co-design with the regions facing the fastest urban growth.
Green Infrastructure vs Health and Well-being
Discover why hospitals are treating green infrastructure as a clinical necessity, not decoration and what that means for your next project. Nature-based medical prescriptions are no longer just an alternative.
Green Infrastructure vs Post-Conflict Recovery
See how green infrastructure is becoming a measurable, fundable part of rebuilding after conflicts and disasters. How does green infrastructure contribute to social and environmental regeneration?