New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Reconnecting with nature

Email user
dir@kinoathens.com

Basic information
Initiative title
KINO NATURAL

Full initiative Title
KINO NATURAL FESTIVAL

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
KINO Athens is proposing an mini film festival of four (4) day duration with out-door screenings accompanied by side events accecible and affordable to all. Presented in Athens city, downtown.

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
Local

Where was your intiative implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Greece

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
City of Athens, Municipality of Athens

Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
Mainly urban

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
Yes

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organisation
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project)
- Name of the organisation(s): ATHENS KINO
  Type of organisation: For-profit company
  First name of representative: OURANIA
  Last name of representative: VELIGRADI
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Greece
  Function: DIRECTOR
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: KAREA 9
  Town: ATHENS
  Postal code: 11636
  Country: Greece
  Direct Tel: +306982901100
  E-mail: DIR@KINOATHENS.COM
  Website: http://KINOATHENS.ORG
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: http://KINOATHENS.ORG
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): FACEBOOK/KINOATHENS
In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
Previous participants

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
KINO Athens is proposing an mini film festival of four (4) day duration with out-door screenings accompanied by side events accecible and affordable to all. Presented in Athens city, downtown.

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
CINEMA

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
SCREENINGS OUT DOOR

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
NATURE

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
RECONNECTION

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
HUMAN

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The programme of films will be a proposition towards humility and humanity. It will raise questions about priorities, values and dreams. It will be an invitation to experiment, in different ways of sharing films, art, ideas and conversations. It will focus on creating stronger bonds among people. The programme of films will be composed by 6 features length films presented in conversation with each other. The name of the programme will be “Reimagining the Land of Humans” An hommage to the land: the administration and possession of the land, the labor of the land, the practices related to it and the ways of life attached. We will reassert the primacy of the land as a critical way of thinking about the world and its various crises. The rise of the climate movement reflects a growing anxiety about ecological catastrophe, a global disaster that promises to render vast swathes of the world’s land uninhabitable and millions of its population landless. As is often the case in these films’ depictions of similar struggles fictional and documentary alike this catastrophe was precipitated by powerful corporate and governmental landowners controlling, manipulating, and abusing law and land. Before the current health crisis, young people took to the streets to strike; in the most effective form of urban protest against an all-connected metropolitan world, they blocked passage through city streets.
This retrospective of films about the land is also, perhaps inevitably, a retrospective of the struggles of the 20th century. Through these films, we can begin to understand the magnitude of the shifts in land and power that this century brought with it, as well as the political transformations that its excesses have precipitated for our already chaotic new century.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
1. Reconnecting with nature
One strand of “Reimagining the Land for Humans“ will be presenting depictions of alternative: utopian communities and the enduring struggle to sustain them. In these movies, land plays a defining role in a revolutionary conception of community.
2. Regaining a sense of belonging
Though the activity we will try to create a spiritual and collective quest involving the search of land
that’s out of sight reconnecting with the mysteries of transcendence and psychedelic pleasures, gaining a sense of belonging and connecting via music as well.
3. Prioritizing the places and people that need it most
We believe that the people of the city, or urban cities need it the most such a tribute.
Also we plan to have free entrance.
4. Fostering long term, lifecycle and integrated thinking in the industrial ecosystem
We realised early on that Athens would be the perfect place to present this particular retrospective, given that it is a city needs immediate social awareness or the need of ordinary people must protect the environments.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
it will be an open event with free entrance and all included right in the middle of the city of Athens

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
Reconnection with physical presence, engaging in conversations

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
Local partners will be the greek film industry and the municipality of Athens with spaces.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
Our project imagines and builds together a sustainable and inclusive future that is beautiful for our eyes, minds, and souls.
Therefore, it complies with the following aspects which are:
Enriching, inspired by art and culture, responding to needs beyond functionality. Sustainable, in harmony with nature, the environment, and our planet.
Inclusive, encouraging a dialogue across cultures, disciplines, genders and ages.

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
Our idea we believe it is innovative because we will reflect global environmental issues though art.

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
There will be artist invited giving seminars and workshops to audience.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
Curating a film program and building around it with artists and audience.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
Enriching, inspired by art and culture, responding to needs beyond functionality. Sustainable, in harmony with nature, the environment, and our planet.
Inclusive, encouraging a dialogue across cultures, disciplines, genders and ages.

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
Step 1
Film Curation
Step 2
Artist selected to work with audience
Step 3
Technical Production
Step 4
Media Coverage

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
Web link
Web link
- https://www.kinoathens.org/about
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
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Yes

By ticking this box, you declare that you are not in in one or more of the exclusion situations foreseen under Article 136 of the Financial Regulation.
Yes

By submitting this application, I declare that I am not related to the entities subject to EU restricted measures under Article 29 of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and subject to Article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU)1, and entities covered by Commission Guidelines No 2013/C 205/05), which are not eligible to participate in any capacity.
Yes

By ticking this box, you declare that all the information provided in this form is factually correct, that you assume sole liability in the event of a claim relating to the activities carried out in the framework of the contest, that the proposed initiative has not been proposed for the New European Bauhaus Prizes in any other category or strand and that it has not been subject to any type of investigation, which could lead to a financial correction because of irregularities or fraud.
Yes

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Yes

By submitting your application, you understand that all the applications that meet the eligibility requirements will be shared for the purposes of the selection processes, and notably published on the secured platform prizes.new-european-bauhaus.eu and for the purposes of the promotion of these on the New European Bauhaus website and/or other European Commission communication channels. In this sense, the applications would be widely available. Applicants should ensure that they present their initiatives, initiative, in such a way that they could be shared without giving rise to intellectual property related concerns. If your submission is selected as one of the finalists, it will additionally be shared for the purpose of the public vote that will take place. The European Union is granted a licence to use and share your application with the general public and the official external experts for the purposes of the selection process, including the voting. The European Union has the right to use the images and visual materials and the description provided in the application for communication purposes related to the contest and beyond. Rights granted comprise the right to store, reproduce, display, publish and communicate or distribute copies in electronic or digital format, including, but not only, through the internet. Unless you have disclosed your name, the European Commission has no obligation to share your name when using or disseminating your contribution to the public. The European Union cannot be held responsible in case any submitted initiative, initiative is found to infringe third party’s rights. The European Union shall be neither responsible for the use that third parties may do of the applications or related content.
Yes

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you read and understand that the ‘Guide to Applicants’ of the NEB Prizes 2023, available online in the website of the NEB Prizes 2023, is an integral part of this application form and that it must therefore be observed when completing and submitting your application.
Yes