Project title: Biodiverse green roofs to support insect and plant communities
Registration number: SS07020238
Provider: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Programme: Environment for Life (Call 7)
Project coordinator: Czech University of life sciences in Prague
Project partners: Univesity of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, GreenVille service s.ro.
Project leader: doc. Ing. Michal Knapp, Ph.D.
Project manager: Kyšperská Eliška
Project schedule: 04/2024 – 06/2026
Total project costs: 9 962 000 CZK
FŽP costs: 5 381 000 CZK
Abstract:
In response to the alarming loss of biodiversity, we want to evaluate the potential of green roofs to support natural insects and plants communities and develop efficient tools to make green roofs more biodiverse (we plan to create "Standards and Recommendations for the Creation of Biodiverse Green Roofs" that can be used by the Ministry of Environments of the Czech Republic, regional and municipal authorities as well as architects, investors, contractors and NGOs. The gathered knowledge can be used to aid the setting of subsidy schemes on various levels. Another goal of the project is to provide exemplary technical solutions for improving the biological value of existing green roofs and creating new biodiverse and "habitat" green roofs.