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Creating NEBourhoods Together

Horizon Europe funding- Lighthouse Demonstrator

Creating NEBourhoods Together will pave the way to make Munich-Neuperlach “New European Bauhaus-ready”. To make this 50-year-old district fit for the future the City of Munich set up an integrated urban concept and action plan based on comprehensive analysis of the challenges together with citizens and stakeholders in 2020/21. In NPL, our test-bed for this mission, we will plant tangible pilots as lighthouse demonstrators and thus, going beyond urban regeneration, deliver NEBourhoods, inspiring and replicable nuclei of practises on the ground for the future of urban development. Combining co-creation and entrepreneurship, putting culture and creativity at the core of the transformation process, the project will deliver accessible and empowering solutions to make the EU-Green Deal beneficial for all in NPL and beyond. The district will be carefully cultivated into a resilient urban innovation landscape. Within two years, we will create NEBourhoods together and show how we can realise circular thinking and acting in society and economy, activate the green transformation in building, mobility, energy, food and health and enhance public space.
Cultuurcampus

Horizon Europe funding- Lighthouse Demonstrator

Cultuurcampus pilots a new approach to city making through education, research, policy and culture at the heart of Rotterdam South, an area which is exemplary of the complex challenges and diverse potential of Europe’s most disadvantaged urban areas. The Cultuurcampus will be housed in a historical building, the refurbishment of which unites a sustainable re-design vision of students of architecture and built environment, with the wishes and needs of local stakeholders, in a part of town where education and cultural institutions are scarce. This will be a hub for students, residents, social enterprise start-ups, lecturers and researchers – a place for learning, studying, community, art and culture. Evaluating our experience, we will identify the most effective strategies for delivering territorial transformations that build on situated knowledge of an area and where the vision is shaped and implemented through multi-stakeholder and multi-level collaborations.
Designing the Irresistible Circular Society

Horizon Europe funding- Lighthouse Demonstrator

Designing an Irresistible Circular Society (DESIRE) aims to create an alternative way forward for the built environment supporting the EU mission of ‘100 climate-neutral and smart cities’. We will present a DESIRE lighthouse demonstrator, built on insights and learnings from on-site demonstration activities taking place on sites in Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Slovenia, and The Netherlands, encompassing various themes and scales. By this, we will set the foundation for a school of thought and practice, and establish a scaling framework for widespread learning across the EU utilizing digital infrastructure, stakeholder involvement and empowerment across a partner community of European cities, youth organisations, NGOs, academia etc. Our territorial sites form the core of DESIRE. Four themes have informed our choice of sites and partners. ‘Creating social and inclusive housing’, ‘the power of we’, ‘Reconciling cities with nature’, and ‘transforming through symbiotic relationships’. In depts on-site demonstration activities will unfold in three Danish sites (an old asphalt factory in Herlev, a social housing neighbourhood in Taastrup, and an urban transformation project in Kalundborg) and contribute to similar demonstration activities in Amsterdam, Ljubljana, Milan, Riga and Turin.
ProLight

Horizon Europe funding: Social and affordable housing district demonstrator (IA)

The envisaged actions of the ProLight project are representative for innovative refurbishment with large potential of immediate replication of other residential buildings from the municipalities & the social housing involved. This includes to find suitable social responses for awareness creation, up-take of knowledge, establishment of behavioral changes towards the energy efficient use & the integration of renewables within an appropriate local political frame. A multi-actor approach uses a methodological concept that explicitly takes into account the energy transition as a societal lever for innovation in the involved demo districts. These practices will be assessed and lead to a complete European competence framework, encapsulating the skills required to reach this change via recorded successful methods observed through ProLight. ProLight exploits the potential of this growing wave of civic engagement and citizen science, in order to facilitate the transition to green, sustainable societies & economies. ProLight achieves this by understanding, defining, measuring & assessing of 6 demo districts in different regions of Europe & disseminate effectively project results.
SUPERSHINE Fellow: Serbia

Horizon Europe funding: Social and affordable housing district demonstrator (IA)

The SUPERSHINE Serbian fellow district is an example of socialist era social housing built in the 60's for single tenants, workers, retired state employees etc. It is a tower block in the centre of Belgrade, comprising 13 floors with 72 apartment units, each ~20 m2. The "social infrastructure" in the neighbourhood is also typical socialist era with health, educational and recreational facilities present. SUPERSHINE is building upon the financial analysis developed within the sister project SUPER-i (https://super-i-project.eu/pilots/).
SUPERSHINE Fellow: Portugal

Horizon Europe funding: Social and affordable housing district demonstrator (IA)

The SUPERSHINE Portuguese fellow district is located in Setúbal. The municipality has an area of 230 km2 and a population of 123,684 inhabitants. To date, the municipality has already promoted the energy certification of 293 dwellings in social housing, with the intention of soon certifying more than 1800 dwellings, with the aim of rehabilitating the buildings. SUPERSHINE is building upon the financial analysis developed within the sister project SUPER-i (https://super-i-project.eu/pilots/).
SUPERSHINE Fellow: Spain

Horizon Europe funding: Social and affordable housing district demonstrator (IA)

The SUPERSHINE Spanish fellow district is situated in Zaragoza with two sub-districts; Pedro Saputo-Margarita Xirgú and Emmeline Pankhurst. Built 1992, the buildings have not been refurbished to date. The ACTUR district was built in the 1970s in response to homelessness issues faced by the city. A district heating system has been installed and the local government earmarked huge public investments for the construction of emblematic buildings (now turned into offices, new business and public services) and infrastructure. SUPERSHINE is building upon the financial analysis developed within the sister project SUPER-i (https://super-i-project.eu/pilots/).
SUPERSHINE Lighthouse: Denmark

Horizon Europe funding: Social and affordable housing district demonstrator (IA)

The SUPERSHINE Danish lighthouse district is in Herning Municipality (part of the Midtjylland Region). Heat to the district is provided by Herningværket, a wood chip CHP plant with a power capacity of 78 MW and heat capacity of 200 MW, supplying heat to 48,000 households through a user-owned cooperative utility, Verdo. The residential demonstration buildings are in the south-eastern part of Herning in a mixed-use area, which includes a large school, a shopping centre, residential villas and residential blocks. Residents in the district are characterised by low income and low education level (but with good access to education). SUPERSHINE is building upon the financial analysis developed within the sister project SUPER-i (https://super-i-project.eu/pilots/).
SUPERSHINE Lighthouse: Latvia

Horizon Europe funding: Social and affordable housing district demonstrator (IA)

The SUPERSHINE Latvian lighthouse district “Āgenskalna priedes” is situated in Riga with 627,763 inhabitants and an area of 304 km2. It is located in the core residential area in the Āgenskalns borough and is composed of 24 Soviet-era multi-apartment residential buildings (1959-1961) and 1 new NZEB multi-apartment residential building (2020). The district is composed of 1,283 apartments for affordable housing and is home to 2,700 inhabitants. In addition, it has been marked by the municipality as the renovation wave pilot area in its Sustainable Development Programme 2021-2027. Āgenskalns neighbourhood is a mixed-use area including low- and medium-rise buildings: multi-apartment residential buildings and family housing areas, offices, retail spaces, public services, universities, schools and kindergartens. SUPERSHINE is building upon the financial analysis developed within the sister project SUPER-i (https://super-i-project.eu/pilots/).
SUPERSHINE Lighthouse: Italian

Horizon Europe funding: Social and affordable housing district demonstrator (IA)

The SUPERSHINE Italian lighthouse district is composed of 8 buildings, each comprising 4 stores and 16 dwellings. The total floor space is 4,417 m2 with an energy consumption for heating of 131 kWh/m2. ATER Trieste plans to demolish and rebuild these buildings. The objective is to overcome the functional obsolescence of the district, attributable to the state of deterioration of the buildings, and to overcome the technological inadequacy with an organic series of redevelopment interventions. This lighthouse district is the extension of the SUPER-i project pilot (https://super-i-project.eu/pilots-italy/).
Bauhaus of the Seas Sails

Horizon Europe funding- Lighthouse Demonstrator

Oceans face numerous challenges, from plastic pollution to rising sea levels. It is possible to solve these environmental problems by mobilising cities close to water. This is the goal of the EU-funded BoS project. Project work will result in transformational demonstrators across different regions and aquatic ecosystems in Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. The overall aim is to achieve a sustainable and inclusive transition, keeping aesthetics at the centre and working with communities. The pilots will provide examples of mission-oriented approaches that are impactful and measurable. The project will introduce an ecocentric narrative both cosmopolitan and rooted in nature-based solutions.
EYES HEARTS HANDS Urban Revolution

Horizon Europe funding- Lighthouse Demonstrator

The EYES HEARTS HANDS Urban Revolution (EHHUR) project will develop and test a co-designed methodological structure to support cities in their built environment transformation by using existing good practices and complementing them with the New European Bauhaus and EU Missions principles. 7 Lighthouse demonstrators will be involved across EU and Associated countries (DK, EL, BE, PT, TK, HR, IT). EHHUR will tackle socio-economic and cultural challenges through relevant case studies facing social segregation, vulnerable residents experiencing energy poverty, coal transition, depopulated and degraded historic centres. EHHUR relies on engagement and co-design as the “backbone” of its methodology, deploying a set of tailored social innovation activities aimed not only to engage, but also to commit the participation of relevant urban players at multiple and multidisciplinary levels (technology co-design, co-financing, aesthetic co-creation). The diversified experiences of the LH demonstrators will provide a variety of good practices and guidelines for future replication. Future adopters will benefit from a DSS tool, supported by a capacity building programme, that offers the ideal mix of best technical solutions, optimal financing schemes and engagement tools and social innovation practice.
New European Bauhaus STAvangeR

Horizon Europe funding- Lighthouse Demonstrator

In NEB-STAR, 16 partners will join forces to make the transition to climate-neutral cities for, by and with all stakeholders. Stavanger as the first-generation NEB Lighthouse will provide experimentation, demonstration, insight and guidance on NEB principles in urban transitions in cooperation with twinning cities Prague and Utrecht, and peers in Europe and the Nordics. The project will demonstrate how Territorial Transformation Plans can be operationalised with NEB principles to accelerate the journey towards climate neutrality. The project will deliver a Detailed Roadmap for full-scale implementation of Stavanger’s Territorial Transformation Plan, supported by an extensive Co-Creation Process, a Portfolio of Policy Strategies and Tools, Financial and Partnership Models. The plans will be co-created with local stakeholders and partners, tested in Demonstrators in the three cities, jointly evaluated with stakeholders and experts, and exploited and replicated in cooperation with Nordic and European NEB and Missions communities. The NEB-STAR Impact Model will capture the social, cultural, financial, governance and technical impact on the built environment, and the stakeholders that affect / are affected by them.
NEBULA

Horizon Europe funding: Built4People partnership (B4P)

The Built4People (B4P) partnership develops and connects national or regional Innovation Clusters in line with Horizon Europe to maximise innovation impacts. The EU-funded NEBULA project will build on B4P and the New European Bauhaus initiative to activate a network of B4P Innovation Clusters. The project will implement improved visibility, adoption and uptake of innovative solutions. This will be in line with the New European Bauhaus, increasing awareness of benefits from innovation and better access to co-financing, intensifying cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary peer-learning from front runners, and expanding cross-border cooperation and networking. NEBULA will prepare the long-lasting activities of the network of B4P Innovation Clusters and the integration of future clusters.
LAUDS

Horizon Funding: Localised and Urban Manufacturing

Local Accessible Urban Digital and Sustainable (LAUDS) Factories: New European Bauhaus Approach to Open and Decentralised Urban Manufacturing is an innovative concept aiming to create small, versatile factories in local and urban areas to co-create and produce customised products in small series. It seeks to incorporate innovative and active resiliency capabilities at production and supply chain levels to support a green, circular, and digital transformation. It can enable artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs to test new ideas and products, and reduce the carbon footprint by cutting transportation costs and time. It also aims to create a more personalised experience for customers, enhance their satisfaction, loyalty, and dynamize the job market. The key exploitable results include a sustainable model for local manufacturing, an updated digital product passport for transparency, and innovation services for makerspaces SMEs and creatives.
STARHAUS

Horizon Funding: Localised and Urban Manufacturing

Sustainable, Technological, Accessible and Resilient human-centric manufacturing supporting the New European Bauhaus through synergies between customized production and consumption models (STARHAUS) will design, test and validate 8 new hardware module prototypes for the existing DIY4U Manufacturing Demonstration Facilities (MDFs), to manufacture newly designed products for personalized fast-moving consumer goods. The project will focus on 4 new use-cases: pet food, fertilizers, beverage, breakfast cereals. STARHAUS will adapt technologies and design new services and processes in an interdisciplinary approach that involves: human centered design, social science impact and indicators, full technology cycle (hardware + software), creativity and arts, circularity and sustainability. The focus will be on sustainability and circularity, enabling the growth of efficient, effective, sustainable and stakeholder-aligned manufacturing methods through re-use, adapt, re-design and repurpose existing technologies as a value for the larger community.
New European Bauhaus Alliance: NEBA Alliance

Horizon funding: Support to NEB Academy

The urgency of the climate crisis requires accelerating the transfer and adoption of climate change mitigation skills and tools to workers, businesses, policy makers, and the public. More than three quarters of companies in the EU report difficulties in finding workers with the necessary skills. Our objective is to establish an international network, the New European Bauhaus Academy Alliance (NEBA Alliance), which will ensure high quality training for higher education, VET, and life-long learning is available and delivered to as many workers as possible across Europe and the surrounding regions. The project will establish Hubs that have regional coverage and/or expertise in specific topics, create a joint business plan and operational models, then link them through a digital platform that will serve as a matchmaker between learners and trainers, as well as an open directory and repository for NEBA certified training contents addressing bio-based, circular, regenerative, and long-life processes, concepts, and solutions with microcredentials available. The project will also provide Skills Agenda and Policy Roadmap, guiding implementation of the Green Deal, Renovation Wave, Circular Bioeconomy and related policy initiatives.
ReGreeneration

Horizon funding: Urban greening and re-naturing for urban regeneration, resilience and climate neutrality

ReGreeneration is a public-private consortium including 9 European cities that will design & experiment together for 4 years Nature Based Solutions to regenerate deprived neighbourhoods for climate resilience, GES reduction and local ecosystem dynamization through participative methods. A set of mixed skills, covering architecture, landscape design, geomatics and digital twins, project value modelling, urbanism, nature & public space facilities, sociology, economics will be deployed in different projects in Paris, Barcelona, Alverca, Bucharest, followed by replicators located in Roma, Gent, Ljubljana, Segrate, Lappeeranta. Projects are complementary and will contribute to create a replicable knowledge on a large set of cities’ challenges. The knowledge to successfully create for meeting these challenges will focus on some key concepts: 1) Creation of an in-depth territory analysis unifying multiple planning domains and able to simulate evolution scenarios; 2) Extensive use of 15 Mn methodology and pedestrian/green mobility focus to support life quality and impacts analysis; 3) Permanent integration of local climate resilience challenges at each key milestones of the project.
Reference Cities

Horizon Europe funding: Creating Actionable Futures (CrAFt)

The CrAFt project will place the transition to climate neutrality at the heart of urban stakeholders. We will support the Mission Board on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities and the H2020 LC-GD-1-2-2020 one-stop platform in designing and deploying Climate City Contracts, based on experience-based knowledge from CrAFt’s 3 Sandbox Cities (Bologna, Prague and Amsterdam) and 70 Reference Cities engaged in testing and sharing knowledge together with cultural, artistic and creative sectors, property owners and tenants, and citizens and communities. We will deliver a “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Guidance Package: NEB Edition” featuring at least 160 collaborative local governance models, tools, examples or stories. This will be supported by a NEB-inspired impact model that helps cities to harness the value of inclusiveness, aesthetics and sustainability, as understood within the local contexts of their city, in their transformation towards climate neutrality, in at least 80 local emblematic projects. We will deliver at least 6 policy briefs informing European policy and programmes about the learnings of these activities, and a storytelling campaign to co-create positive and inclusive narratives towards climate-neutral futures, for, with and by citizens and communities.
PALIMPSEST

Horizon Europe funding: Cultural Heritage

PALIMPSEST takes inspiration from the original meaning of the Greek word παλίμψηστος (palimpsestos, ‘again’ + ‘scrape’), which describes the process of the writing practices over papyrus: existing text was scraped and washed off, the surface re-smoothed, and the new literary material written on the saved material. PALIMPSEST envisages regenerating the lost “sustainability wisdom” underlying the production of heritage landscapes through the activation of co-creation processes involving creative actors, technical stakeholders and civic society. Here architecture, design and art practices will dialogue with place-specific needs and broad systemic challenges to imagine new scenarios and experiment with innovative practices connecting human actions, landscape heritage and sustainability objectives. Such experiments will envision novel Landscape Scenarios aiming at producing dedicated Landscape Services, inspired by the generation of beneficial outcomes on ecosystem functions, which the creative contribution of CCIs will empower. PALIMPSEST will integrate the aforementioned Landscape Services in environmental-sensitive solutions with sustainable finance infrastructures to support the sharing and circulating of positive externalities at different levels among the landscape service actors and communities.
HERITACT

Horizon Europe funding: Cultural Heritage

The future of Europe’s rich cultural heritage is facing several challenges due to various threats including climate change, natural or man-made disasters and lack of finance. Despite Europe’s common values and creative diversity of traditions, crafts, arts and architecture, social discrimination based on ethnicity, race, sex or gender and more persists, and is one of the key drivers of social exclusion. HERITACT will consider cultural transformations driving sustainability and will explore new cooperation paths among relevant stakeholders, interested in designing a new European way of life in line with the New European Bauhaus. HERITACT intends to empower communities’ co-creation capacity and to redefine the role of cultural heritage in urban regeneration. HERITACT will identify and enhance community-oriented processes and will introduce innovative and inclusive architectural and design solutions and cultural-artistic practices to support environmental and cultural sustainability, and to strengthen the cultural and creative industries through community awareness and policy making across European urban areas of many different scales and cultural settings. Interdisciplinary methodologies will provide stakeholders at 3 different cultural urban contexts across Europe a decision-support system based on collaborative approaches for the reactivation of unused cultural heritage spaces, and/or for enhancing diverse communities‘cultural identity and values.
Crafting Future

Horizon Europe funding: EIT Community Booster 2021

Crafting Future develops sustainable and reusable containers for the food industry.Their business-model ensures that reusable packaging-solutions are developed in line with the Circular Economy model, available at fair and competitive prices for everybody. The company also ensures decent jobs at the local level in the EU without externalising labour force. The final product is a beautiful, minimalistic object of design.
Living Light

Horizon Europe funding: EIT Community Booster 2021

Living Light is an innovative light application of which the energy is generated through the collaboration with microbes in the soil. Living Light inspires people to take care of nature and makes sure that the hidden energy potential of nature can be used in a planet friendly way.
NEST

Horizon Europe funding: EIT Community Booster 2021

Natural Eco-System Tiles (NEST) expands the capacities of nature in the cities and protects the biodiversity in built environments by creating living spaces for the fauna and flora within a singular building façade system. NEST boosts the quality and attractiveness of public spaces in places where traditional horizontal greening is not available, while maintaining high performance of the building, healthier micro-climates and greater ecological density.
drOp

Horizon Europe funding: Social and affordable housing district demonstrator (IA)

The core ambition of the project is the development of an integrated renovation methodology aiming to transform social housing districts into inclusive smart neighbourhoods. It will guide constructive, energy and digital updates of neighbourhoods to improve urban space, accessibility and quality of life for all resident, and to guarantee connectivity of these neighbourhoods in physical, social and digital areas. The two drivers around which this project is structured are social innovation and local economic development both sharing the integration of innovative technologies as a guiding thread but with a human-centred approach and fit for purpose. The project will also explore the growth creation potential of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in these processes of social neighbourhood renewal while strengthening social cohesion Based on an understanding of users’ needs, it will be validated through a use case in one social housing neighbourhood in Ermua (Spain). This process will be enriched by a peer learning method: Ermua (Spain) will iterate with Elva (Estonia), and Matera (Italy), with their experience around the CCIs having been European Culture Capital 2019. This will also guarantee its replicability reinforced by Housing Europe, with the capacity to widely disseminate the IRM among its members as well as to foster and support its application.
FABRIX

Horizon Funding: Localised and Urban Manufacturing

In the transition towards a more sustainable, digital, and inclusive economy in Europe, there is a lack of integration between different disciplines and initiatives, resulting in missed opportunities. FABRIX aims to address this challenge by adopting an integrated approach to local and regenerative urban manufacturing, combining spatial design, developing opportunities for industrial symbiosis and circular manufacturing, and by value chain analysis and management. FABRIX will develop an innovative and interactive platform (MANTEL) that supports local value-chain management for more circular and regenerative urban manufacturing. FABRIX focuses on the textile and clothing sector (T&C) in Athens (Greece) and Rotterdam (The Netherlands). T&C is a priority in the European Green Deal, the Circular Economy Action Plan, and the Industrial Strategy. The core innovation of FABRIX’s research design and implementation is the entanglement of spatial and relational perspectives; perspectives that cannot be seen apart, but that in practice are mostly dealt with separately in policy and research, thus hampering significant progress. FABRIX’s focus on the T&C sector, its innovative mix of research methods, its interactive, open-source digital platform of tools, and its capacity-building FABRIX Academy, will ensure the transferability during and beyond the research and innovation action to other places and other sectors dealing with similar suboptimization.
YouRban

Horizon Funding: Localised and Urban Manufacturing

YouRban cocreates an active urban ecosystem for the recycling and upcycling of objects and materials, in relation to reinforced polymers coming from local environment. The project activates an urban setting of citizens, artists, designers, architects, small-scale producers, artisans, and Urban Factories. A local and flexible decentralized production system is generated in two European cities, both linked to the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities EU Mission, Milan and Barcelona. Two complementary pilots will cocreate new objects through a Neighbourhood Participatory Approach supported by Collaborative Digital tools. The material recycling and reprocessing experiences will go through a 10-day event around a mobile plant on board of a Truck that will be placed in the city and open to all actors. Experts will be available to provide knowledge and training, citizens will be involved to provide needs and expectations, artists will be engaged through artistic residences to provide solutions inspired by art and culture, beyond functionality, Urban Factories will participate thanks to a Cascade Funding mechanism.
GreenInCities

Horizon funding: Urban greening and re-naturing for urban regeneration, resilience and climate neutrality

Applying regeneration strategies, smart systems, and renaturalization processes to deprived areas is crucial. These areas tend to face multiple urban problems, such as pollution, social and cultural issues, lack of services and low-quality built environments, and public spaces, leading to issues related to liveability, functionality, quality of life, social cohesiveness, and physical and mental health. Moreover, there is a growing need for climate change adaptation strategies, which has led to the implementation of Nature Based Solutions (NBS). Innovative technologies such as AI, machine learning, and immersive realities are also emerging, which can enhance the accuracy of information delivery and people engagement. GreenIn Cities aims to develop methodologies and tools for collaborative climate mitigation and adaptation urban planning approaches, specifically for deprived areas, addressing three main challenges: improving societal readiness level and awareness of vulnerable groups, going beyond classical greening and renaturing interventions, and leveraging cutting-edge technologies to enhance co-creation and maximize urban regeneration impacts.

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