Vratsa, Bulgaria: LAP - Green Urban Regeneration

In the first face-to-face meeting among the RESTART_4Danube partners, on April 13, the 1st City Summit was held again in a hybrid format, and in the first panel of the meeting the five local action plans of the project were presented as well as activities related to their implementation.

The Bulgarian Local Action Plan is a strategic document that is being developed to create conditions for the implementation of the concept of green spaces, such as an urban regeneration strategy and to develop ways to integrate this concept into training practices in the field of urbanism and landscape architecture. It concerns the improvement of the framework for a new model of urban regeneration involving the creative and cultural industries. The action plan aims to increase the green areas in the city of Vratsa and the use of natural resources as places for recreation, as a prerequisite for the development of the urban environment. Based on these conclusions, the Municipality of Vratsa identified two main actions of the Bulgarian LAP:

• A campaign to raise awareness about the green urban spaces and historical heritage in the town;
• Organization of a city picnic in the area of "Hristo Botev" Sports Complex.