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    Aiaraldea Ekintzen Faktoria

    Aiaraldea Ekintzen Faktoria: A place to dream and create

    The Ayala Valley includes, in addition to the geographical municipalities, towns of proximity with which social life develops. Taking into account this, Aiaraldea is a project directed to 9 municipalities. In total, 45.000 inhabitants. 5 Álava municipalities: Laudio, Amurrio, Aiara, Okondo, Artziniega. 4 Bizkaia municipalities: Urduña, Orozko, Arakaldo eta Arrankudiaga-Zollo. The Aiaraldea factorship of Acción has always committed itself to community and identity, recognizing local customs, culture, life, needs and desires. , Spain
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Moving Lusitalia

    A history of the «Quartier Italie» in Dudelange, Luxembourg

    City of Dudelange, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    Sporos Regeneration Institute

    Northern Aegean and Attica, Greece
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  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    Connecting Ages

    Multigenerational affordable housing

    Starachowice - a city in southeaster Poland. It has a population of 49 513 inhabitants. , Poland
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    Guaranteeing Animals a Life Worth Living

    Guaranteeing Animals a Life Worth Living: Pursuing the Animals' Best Interests

    CROSS-BORDER/INTERNATIONAL,Sweden, Germany
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Designing together in rural settings

    Creative architecture summer schools for high school student in Eastern Transylvania (2004-2022)

    Harghita, Mureș, Covasna, Romania
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Recreating a square or... an urban space

    Rome, Venice, Arezzo, Bari, Bergamo, Catania, Torino, Italy
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  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    STEM*Lab

    STEM*Lab - Discover, Include, Inspire, Empower

    1. Lombardy (Municipality of Milan, Municipality of Cremona) 2. Piedmont (Municipality of Turin, Municipality of Settimo Torinese, Municipality of Cuneo) 3. Campania (Municipality of Naples, Municipality of Ercolano) 4. Sicily (Municipality of Palermo, Municipality of Partinico), Italy
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  • Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

    The Green Project

    The Green Project: study VET in green

    Aragón, Spain
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    Natural Building School

    Natural Building School - An educational initiative of Spreeplan Architects

    Berlin / Brandenburg Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
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    Flowerdrops

    Sustainable communal workshop + auction for good

    Finland , Finland
    A communal art project inviting people to join workshop in making a "flower". Ready flower is attached on ready frame. Each flower matters, as fully flowered lampshade is auctioned to local charity. Material used making flowers is recycled: recycled plastic bottles + canisters, collected at schools, restaurants. One may bring their own "rubbish". Recycled material is washed before use. We have instructions to make a quick flower in just 2 min. Or one may spend hours at workshop creating.
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    Pollinator Highway Installations

    Installation Competition ‘Place Buzz’ on the Pollinator Highway in Tallinn

    Estonia
    The ’Place Buzz’ installations enrich the Pollinator Highway with environmentally sensitive public art designed for humans and non-humans alike, which engages with the community. The artworks highlight various sections of the longest green corridor in Tallinn by making the most of the existing space and its varied potential while making unremarkable environments vibrant. The broader concept of the Pollinator Highway is to enhance urban biodiversity, green mobility and community engagement.
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    SoCircular

    SoCircular - Celebrating Dublin's Social and Circular Economy Ecosystem

    Ireland
    SoCircular was a first of its kind event which helped transform Dublin by: highlighting and celebrating the social and circular economy ecosystem and associated arts and culture, encouraging people, businesses, organisations and government departments to buy from and support local social and circular enterprises, promoting supports to help enterprises adopt circular / sustainability approaches, and through providing a forum for conversation, insights and ideas on developing a SoCircular Dublin.
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    100 chairs & 3 urban lounges for Logroño

    100 foldable chairs and 3 biodiverse urban lounges for Logroño

    Spain
    Citizens from Logroño would benefit from having folding chairs allowing them to rest where they want and decide the best use of municipal furniture: if they sit under a tree, with many people or search for intimacy. This custom of sitting has existed in Spain till cars appropriated the city. The project aims to pacify public spaces introducing living areas that are free, where citizens can meet without paying while supporting active governance, public engagement, placemaking and biodiversity.
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    Mar Recycling

    Center for Innovation in Circulated Economy

    Spain
    The Circular Economy Innovation Center comes from the previous project Mares de Reciclaje, a space where to promote innovative projects that generate sustainable employment linked to the social economy and the culture of recycling. The new center (CIEC) of Madrid is a project of the Government Area of Economy, Innovation and Employment of the Madrid City Council. This proposal is a business incubator to promote the transformation of companies from a linear model to a circular model.
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    From grey into bluegreengrey

    Reconnecting with nature and its processes in our streetscapes

    Sweden , Czechia
    The Rundelsgatan in Velligen use to be a space mainly for traffic - dominated with impermeable hard surfaces that lead stormwater without treatment into sewer system. Today the street is safe space where rainwater is managed on site in way that new biodiverse plantations with trees can use it as resource. The result is lush green street that provides with wide range of ecosystem services to its local residents that can experience the nature and its processes right in front of their doorstep!
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    Corn maze "Hrvatica"

    Corn maze inspired by local folklore embroidery "Hrvatica"

    Croatia
    In 2022 we developed a corn maze as a seasonal attraction, which shape was inspired by the motives of the local embroidery named "Hrvatica". Within the maze we have developed assignments about local heritage which was a fun element for kids and youth. Around 2000 visitors came to explore the corn maze, local community accepted the project very well and it was widely covered by the media. We believe it is a great example of sustainable tourism and regaining a sense of beloning in the rural area.
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    Muharem Berbics Friends Club

    Muharem Berbics Friends Club in Kakanj Municipality

    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Muharem Berbics Friends Club in Kakanj Municipality is a project of the Foundation Muharem Berbic which adapted and preserved industrial cultural heritage, built in 1936, with the aim of establishing a social business where people with disabilities get the opportunity to work. This is a socially inclusive project which promotes equality, equity, and anti-discrimination. This project is in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the region first of this type. Currently, there are employed 5 people.
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    MAGICAL REALISM

    MAGICAL REALISM: Complexity, Diversity and Nature's Contribution to Humanity

    Italy
    The Magical Realism exhibition selected by Arte Laguna in Venice among 120 very best contemporary artists in the world of 2021 attracts attention to the biodiversity crisis. Driven by the fact that 69% of species populations have been lost since 1970 according to WWF, it focuses on making the importance and fragility of nature, particularly of tropical ecosystems visible and tangible, and how human cultures and the natural environment co-evolve, influencing and shaping each other.
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    Unione Digital

    Brain stimulation device

    Slovakia , Other
    Be the best version of yourself. Unione Digital is here to provide you with the brain stimulation that helps you focus. Completely.
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