The first Stakeholder meeting took place in Rijeka in July 2020. Due to the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, stakeholder meeting took place on two different days, July 24th and 28th, as individual 'one-on-one' meetings with key stakeholders. The first 'one-on-one' meeting took place at the premises of RDA Porin with representatives from the public institution 'The Institute for Physical Planning of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County'. The second 'one-on-one' meeting took place at the premises of the stakeholder Utility company 'Čistoća'. During both meetings, RDA Porin presented the Blue Green City project and delivered a questionnaire intended to collect more in-depth information about existing processes of green-blue infrastructures and nature-based solutions in the region and the city.
Individual meetings initiated a discussion and the exchange of experiences in a form of a small group. In order to collect relevant information on GBI and NBS, meetings focused on existing procedures, concepts and practices, detecting relevant current and future challenges, planned and developing projects, gaining insight into biological and landscape diversity preservation as well as climate change mitigation actions and concepts or practices for ecosystem improvement.
During the meetings, participants' expertise was collected and afterward both stakeholders delivered materials and information on the given questionnaires that brought important conclusions and gave further direction for project planning.
The second stakeholder meeting is planned for the end of 2020 with the focus on bringing concrete ideas for developing methodology directions for sustainable planning of green and blue infrastructures, and solutions for the implementation actions that will be discussed further in order to create an action plan.
