New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Regaining a sense of belonging

Email user
apollicino.eu@outlook.com

Basic information
Initiative title
Storie di Integrazione Europea

Full initiative Title
Storie di personaggi che hanno contribuito all'identità Comune Europea dal Medioevo ad oggi

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
The Pollicino Family is probably just one of many who responded positively to the various calls of the medieval era, to define the European borders, and thus build a common identity . Probably from the city of Troyes, in the North of France began a compelling story.
The project aims to reconstruct all the various stages, of the crusades, of the events in the cities to create a historical, epic story, useful for the cohesion of the European peoples today.

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
Cross-border/international

Where was your intiative implemented?
Location 1
France

Location 2
Italy
Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Hungary
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Germany
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Other
If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Oslo, Norvegia
Troyes, Francia
Parigi, Francia
Rouen, Francia
Budapest, Ungheria
Dusseldorf, Germania
Genova, Italia
Roma, Italia,
Messina, Italia
Palermo, Italia

Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

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.
No

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As an individual
Please provide the contact details for the intiative promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the intiative).
- First name: Antonio
  Last name: Pollicino
  Gender: Male
  Nationality: Italy
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Via Cuasso 37
  Town: Porto Ceresio
  Postal code: 21050
  Country: Italy
  Direct Tel: +39 347 349 2120
  E-mail: apollicino.eu@outlook.com
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-pollicino-projectmanagerpharma/
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?
Social Media

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
The project is to reconstruct a story, through the historical references in the archives of the European cities involved, and write a book. This publication will then be used as a cultural work to promote places for tourist purposes. Building a hotel spread within the medieval village of San Pier Niceto (ME) will be among the next steps, involving the various stakeholders in the sector, thus promoting a circular economy of the area with other small interventions. In the developments there is also the possibility of using the book as a script for a television series to be broadcast on the main streaming platforms.
The key to the whole project is to disseminate historical content that will help understand the path of European integration from the Middle Ages to the present. The response of the various European gentlemen to the call of the Crusades is in fact an important piece of our identity, as it has defined our values, borders, politics, land management and various local peculiarities, shared throughout the continent.

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

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Knowledge and Tourism Promotion

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Integration Process

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Economic and Social Development

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Circular Economy

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.
Currently I have already written a draft with research done on the web. Now it is necessary to confirm the sources, and to make an exact chronology of the facts, of the displacements, in correlation to the various historical events. I asked for the collaboration of the Department of Medieval History of the University of Messina, which would need funds to support. I wrote a Canvass Business Model of the Urban Redevelopment Project of a Medieval Village in the municipality of San Pier Niceto (ME), and now I aim to find qualified investors and stakeholders to support the initiative to build a Albergo Diffuso, a tourist cooperative, and the recovery of adjacent wooded and agricultural areas, to be triggered as a circular economy. The village in question was born thanks to the Pollicino family in about 1400, and has experienced, like the other villages of Baronia, evolutions resulting from various political phenomena of the time.
At present there is a demographic decline, and abandonment due to a lack of productive and economic activities. Every piece of furniture and real estate is losing value, and therefore memory. I will also try to spread the future book to Investors in the audiovisual sector, with the aim of producing a television series.
The writing of the book is therefore the basis of the cultural initiative, significant to recover the historical identity of people around Europe who have built developments.

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.
The cultural benefits of this initiative are many.
Recovery of Historical Identity: knowing who we are, where we come from, what was our path of integration are the basic elements for our culture, and the integration between peoples.
Cultural Benefits: the response to the Pope’s call to defend Christian values was an important political motive in the Middle Ages. From there our common values were born. The opportunities that arose, the power struggles, the successions, the intrigues, determined an evolution. But who would have thought that a Norman would establish his greatest splendor on an island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Positive emotions: they come from the passion, from the love for the exploration and the conquest of common identities on which the values of feudalism were founded. A Scandinavian administration, established in Sicily and evolved into a democracy. In these deeds there is a key to understanding, who we are, and how we evolved. We are more similar than you can imagine!
Among the goals then those to talk to people about these various steps, and the recovery of true historical facts.

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.
Reconstructing the various stages of this family means recounting the deeds of men who contributed to the development of the various local administrations. From city states, to municipalities, from Baronies to Empires. There is a common interpretation key in all these developments: Inclusion.
Why would a foreigner from the North of France be accepted into the Municipality of Genoa, or as Administrator of Sicily?
Merits emerge, service to the crown, civil valor, the defense of our values.
With this work we aim to recover these values, questioned by the various sovereignisms and imperial raids that today represent a serious danger for European culture.
Knowing the origins is the best way to strengthen the roots of identity.

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
Initially the work will be published, advertised, written on paper and digitally. It will be accessible for a fee.
Then, according to the developments, we will try to start the next steps. Project Audiovisual with access via streaming platforms.
Realization of museums and hotel, accessible through tourist use.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
At the moment, historical research was born from personal initiative. Subsequently requests for participation will be sent to the various universities of the cities involved, in order to create circuits, a memory path, open and usable in practice.

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
The added value of this initiative is the collection of various historical facts useful to build a larger lost identity.
The reason why a village was first reclaimed, and after built, is to be attributed in the political interest of the various parties involved at the time of the events.
Rediscovering these values will tell of us. Thus historical research, design, broad vision, political vision, social evolution, cultural aspects and economic development are much of the fields of knowledge applied in this project. Everything is to be implemented, assigning to every aspect a specialized interlocutor. My role is therefore that of the promoter, of the control room.

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
The innovation lies in the fact that, from historical research, identity, cultural contents develop suitable for the recovery of cohesion and the possibility of living in common spaces. Integration is this, discover the various historical passages that have created elements of common identity.
Thanks to this project, then, you can recover depressed, disadvantaged and abandoned areas of southern Italy, characterizing them and positioning them on the global tourist market, as eblema of our European identity.

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.
This procedure would be a protocol for the recovery of other medieval villages in the province of Messina, to be used for global tourism.
For example, in the town of Roccavaldina there is one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe, with artifacts dating back to medieval times, alchemists who prepared precious medicines from herbs. This cultural aspect is particularly significant, as are the practices of ancient traditional Chinese medicine. Yet all is lost, no one knows these places, except for some local inhabitants interested.
This replication process would ensure local development at the moment indefinite, thus increasing economic growth from the tourism sector.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
On the basis of the historical, cultural document, recover the places and activities involved through the various stakeholders and industry operators, creating continental economic connections, open globally.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
The process of globalization also passes through the culture and historical identity of the various places and inhabitants. Developing the local allows you to tell your story globally.

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
I have already written a draft of the work, the result of numerous web searches. I’m trying to build an article on Wikipedia. I need resources to get the job done, then move on to the next steps.

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.)
PDF
PDF
- pdf-1-8852.pdf
- pdf-1-8852_0.pdf
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
Sustainability also means recovering, repairing what has become old over time.
A building can be demolished and rebuilt. But you can also redevelop and fortify.
The same applies to land, crops, biofuel projects and everything possible in a circular economy.
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Yes

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