Cours OASIS — Climate-Resilient Schoolyards

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Paris is depaving and greening asphalt schoolyards into cooler, rain-absorbing 'oases' that open to residents during heatwaves. Since 2017, 203 schoolyards plus 5 nurseries have been transformed, with 360 targeted by 2030 and all city schools by roughly 2050. An EU Urban Innovative Actions grant (~€5M, 2019–2021) funded a monitored 10-site pilot.

Live 📅 since 2017

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence📊 Independentgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure

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Run byVille de Paris

Scale🏙️ City-wide

FundingEU ERDF via the Urban Innovative Actions initiative (~€5M) funded the 2019–2021 pilot; further sites funded by the City of Paris Climate Plan.

🎓 Lesson

Opening greened schoolyards to the neighbourhood outside school hours turns a climate-adaptation retrofit into shared public cooling space, multiplying its social value.

🌱 Environment Heat & cooling Public space Health & care

Sources

↗ Ville de Paris — Les cours oasis (authority)Official programme page: depaving, greening, heatwave opening, targets.

↗ Climate-ADAPT / EEA — Paris OASIS case study (independent)EU adaptation platform review of the programme and its monitoring.

↗ PariSeine (SPL) — Cours Oasis (city delegate)Source for 203 courtyards + 5 nurseries since 2017 and 360-by-2030 target.

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Compare this project

🇪🇸 Superblock Sant Antoni · Barcelona Two ways to green paved space: Barcelona pulled cars off Sant Antoni's streets (2018); Paris depaves asphalt schoolyards into oases (2017-). 🇩🇪 Community Heat Map · Gründau Both fight heat at kids' spaces: Gründau maps live playground temperatures; Paris cools asphalt schoolyards into heatwave oases. 🇺🇸 Cool Pavement Programme · Los Angeles Two ways to cool streets: Paris depaves and greens asphalt schoolyards (2017-); LA coats pavement with reflective CoolSeal (2017-).

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📟 A Reading Is Not a Decision 🌡️ Heat & cooling guide 🏙️ Paris city profile 🌱 Environment projects 📖 Urban heat island 📖 Superblock 📖 15-minute city

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Cours OASIS — Climate-Resilient Schoolyards” — Paris, France. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/paris-oasis-schoolyards/ (last verified 2026-07-17). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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