The international Biomappers project team met in Rome for two days of concentrated work: testing of training materials and exchange on workshops dedicated to participatory biodiversity mapping in urban community gardens.
Every citizen will be able to become an active observer of urban biodiversity, helping to gather valuable data and knowledge through the citizen science application iNaturalist. During the transnational meeting in Rome, the Biomappers team, with the support of gardenisers and gardeners from the Orti in Comune, Rome network of community gardens, set up a first experimental laboratory at the Orti Urbani Garbatella with an initial mapping of plants, insects, birds and other silent inhabitants of our urban ecosystem.
The project will come to life not only in Rome, but also in Vienna and Budapest, where community urban gardens will become real citizen science laboratories to explore and enhance the biodiversity hidden among vegetables, flowers and pollinating insects.
Knowing biodiversity is the first step to protecting it. An Erasmus+ Adult Education project promoted by Gartenpolylog, KÉK - Contemporary Architecture Centre and Replay Network aps.
