Project number:

LIFE22-ENV-ES-LIFEBauhausingEurope/101113886

 

Duration of the project:

1. 10. 2023. – 30. 9. 2027.

 

Total value:

4,624,142 €

 

Eu co-financing:

2,774,485 €

 

Coordinating beneficiary:

EuroVértice Consultores S.L. (Spain)

 

Partners:

Croatia Green Building Council (Croatia), City of Varaždin (Croatia), Development agency North DAN (Croatia), Polytechnic University of Cartagena (Spain), Council of Cartagena (Spain), Council of Blanca (Spain), Budapest Capital VII. Office of the District Mayor (Hungary), Pro Progressione Artistic Hub (Hungary), Ekodoma Ltd. (Latvia), Ādažu novada dome (Latvia)

Project description:

Climate change and the green transition are global challenges that require action to be taken at the local level. The New European Bauhaus (NEB) promotes a place-based approach and supports small-scale initiatives by individuals, neighborhoods and communities. At the same time, the functional scale of neighborhoods has been demonstrated as highly efficient in the use of resources whenever they guarantee a spatial distribution of uses, infrastructures and urban functions and a rational building density. Unfortunately, the functioning at such scale is not always possible due to different degradation processes and urban challenges that lead to the absence of public facilities and services, progressive disappearance of the local commerce, abandonment or lack of care of green areas, etc. This situation also generates lack of sense of community and individualistic attitudes that increase the environmental impact on the use of resources and reduce the awareness on the power of collective action to achieve the green transition and cope with climate change hazards. The NEB combines the multilevel, participatory, and transdisciplinary approach to guide the transformation path towards more sustainable, aesthetic and inclusive communities. This project aims to start a transformation process in 5 different European neighborhoods, following the principles of the NEB, and demonstrating that this approach is suitable for the transformation of any territory no matter its size, rural or urban character, urban challenges or degradation processes undergone. This urban transformation will pursue the generation of more sustainable, beautiful, and circular territories co-governed by their inhabitants.