Green B-LEAF Project Launched
Campobasso, Italy, 16th of June 2025
Local Action Group (GAL) Molise, together with 10 partners forming a consortia of 8 countries, have oficially launched the Green B-LEAF: Green Participatory Budgeting for Local Environmental Action and sustainable Future. Green B-LEAF empowers rural Mediterranean communities to drive climate adaptation and sustainability through Green Participatory Budgeting (Green PB). By equipping municipalities and residents with data-driven tools and methodologies, the project fosters community-led climate action. Through collaboration across 8 countries, Green B- LEAF develops and pilots tailored budgeting frameworks, enhances institutional capacity, and promotes community ownership. Outputs include a Green PB methodology, Green Budget Tagging toolkit, pilot projects, and a transnational knowledge-sharing network. The project integrates New European Bauhaus values and ensures long-term impact through community engagement and policy alignment.
The overall Green B-LEAF objective is to enhance climate resilience and sustainability in rural Mediterranean communities through participatory budgeting and data-driven planning. The project therefore addresses challenges such as low community participation in climate planning and budgeting in rural areas; environmental degradation and limited adaptive capacity, lack of tools for assessing the climate impact of local budgets, disconnection between data and local decision-making, and a need for tailored, inclusive, and practical policy tools in small municipalities
Adolfo Fabrizio Colagiovanni, Green B-LEAF Manager, stated: “Green B-LEAF is a unique opportunity to empower rural communities across the Mediterranean to shape their climate-resilient future. By combining participatory budgeting with climate adaptation, we’re giving citizens a direct voice in building greener, healthier places to live.”
Marko Paunovic, OTB Europe has noted that ““Through Green B-LEAF, we are not just communicating about climate action — we are creating spaces where every resident can become an active participant in local green transformations. Our mission is to make sustainability accessible, inclusive, and democratic for all.”
The Green B-LEAF project has been funded by the Interred Euro-MED Programme of the European Union, is lead by GAL Molise Verso il 2000 (Italy), in collaboration with Municipalities of Faro (Portugal), Vodnjan (Croatia), Sandanski (Bulgaria), Strumica (North Macedonia), Pilea-Hortiatis (Greece), Quart de Poblet (Spain) and Beltinci (Slovenia), supported by OTB Europe (Portugal), Center for Climate Change and Promo Idea (North Macedonia).
For more information, please consult the Green B-LEAF Website: https://greenb-leaf.interreg-euro-med.eu/
