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An abandoned former industrial building in the periphery of Bologna regain life as a multipurpose social-centre and is today a shared space for residents, young, associations and informal groups that organize activities everyday: Ex Centrale is a participative and multidisciplinary process of regeneration that transformed a crumbling former dairy produce in the ‘Hub of the Suburbs’ actively involving hundreds of locals in dreaming and realizing a new common and collective urban space.

The "FER-MENTI LEONTINE Community Cooperative Society" is configured as a new cooperative capable of creating innovation among the people who make it up, providing support to citizens, whenever the opportunity arises to generate community and economic values capable of to promote local development.
Community for the community: We are a group of citizens, a community that has brought together their dreams and skills in order to give new life to the place where it is and lives

Clean Sea LIFE engaged marine lovers and professionals in an effort to preserve the health and beauty of the Mediterranean sea. The project inspired positive change in 170,000 Italian citizens and stakeholders: together we removed 112 tons of marine litter. CSL encouraged co-responsibility and collaboration, created and disseminated better waste management practices and influenced local and national legislations to reduce and prevent littering. The project was co-funded by the LIFE programme.

Bos-Grens; the soundwalk takes you on a journey trough nature, sound-art, stories and land-art. Inspired by the heritage of the past and the experiences of the present, you walk on and over the border of Belgium and the Netherlands through the forests of Clinge (NL) and De Klinge (BE).
Along the way you will find borderbenches and art installations, co-created with locals, built with the dead trees of the forest. Here you can listen to the soundtracks with unique border stories.

The Cupola [Koepel] prison, build around 1900, is a national monument and the connection between the main city center and the other side of the Spaarne river, traditionally not so rich and attractive. The renovating and repurposing started as a citizens' initiative. After a 6-year process, the former prison has been transformed into a place of hope. Today, the Cupola is the public epicentre for education, digital knowledge for future-proof small businesses, tourism and culture.

“Village Square Meer” is an initiative of a local collective of citizens to revitalise an historic convent, listed as national monument and landscape, in the centre of the rural village Meer. By means of architectural interventions, adaptive re-use, landscape design and cultural programming, Village Square Meer made these spaces again accessible to the public. For the first time, in its history the rural village receives a central public square founded upon an important historic urban landscape.

By entering a partnership with the Athens Development and Destination Management Agency, and the Municipality of Zagora-Mouresi, we launched two Live Action Role Playing Games related to the socio-economic, natural, and cultural heritage of the designated areas, offering locals opportunities to maintain their psychological resilience levels, enhancing the areas economic imprint, and acting as leverage for locals to enter new professions, whilst fighting neglection of the regions.

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The Klimatorium is the Danish international climate centre. Built with striking architecture, situated in the small city of Lemvig on the danish westcoast, overviewing the water and the elements. Klimatorium brings together stakeholders on all levels: knowledge institutions, businesses, the public sector and citizens, to create innovative climate solutions, as well as communicating these solutions to children and youth through the amazing climate exhibition.

"You are welcome to find out / What is this new scene" (Translated word to word from the genre anthem incipit)

Trance Hop is a fusion music project that joins PsyTrance beats and melodies with Hip-Hop guerilla lyricism. The lyrics are often directed to the minorities, giving them a "high-five" so to speak. The genre demands against political extremisms and social inequalities, in an attempt to defend whats left of our equality and equity.

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