Boost for Small Municipalities: All applications

“Growing Together: Green Kids Hub” is an initiative that creates a modern, inclusive and environmentally friendly space for early childhood education. It brings together learning, play and nature in safe and inspiring indoor and outdoor environments that support children’s development and well-being. More than a building, it becomes a community hub that promotes inclusion, sustainability and a better quality of life for families in Tășnad.

The Rațiu Inclusive Educational Camp creates a safe, inspiring and sustainable space where children and youth can learn, connect and grow. Located in rural North-West Romania, it combines education, nature and community to deliver high-quality non-formal learning, especially for those with fewer opportunities. Hosting around 960 children yearly, at least 30% from vulnerable groups, it builds confidence, life skills and belonging, turning education into real opportunity.

The initiative transforms urban mobility in Tășnad by creating a modern, sustainable mobility corridor that connects key areas of the city through clean public transport, safe cycling routes, and pedestrian-friendly spaces. By reducing reliance on private cars and promoting green alternatives, the project enhances accessibility, improves air quality, and creates a more attractive, inclusive, and livable urban environment for both residents and visitors.

The project concerns the infrastructural enhancement of public spaces in Lombardore’s “Concentrico” the perched historic core,mainly enclosed within the walls of the ”Castrum Longobardorum” including the redevelopment of its natural and cultural heritage (SIC IT1110005) and sustainable mobility, involving residents and visitors of the Vauda Natural Reserve. An initiative needed to revitalize a small village in the Turin metropolitan area through education, digitization,and sustainability

In Kleinpaschleben, a former village school is being transformed into a lively community hub for all generations. Through co-creation with local residents, the project reactivates an important place at the centre of the village and shows how vacant public buildings in rural areas can become inclusive, sustainable spaces for everyday life and community activities.

The project enhances the forest-wood supply chain of the Serre Calabresi, focusing on silver fir for the production of very high-quality structural timber. Through strategic design and co-design, the territorial brand “Le Terre Brune” and a system of services were developed, aimed at dissemination but above all at carbon emission offsetting for more sustainable management, combining technological excellence with the socio-cultural regeneration of the territory.

Heraclea Sintica transforms an ancient city revealed through ongoing archaeological research into a living landscape where cultural heritage, biodiversity and local communities are reconnected. Moving beyond conventional tourism, the project develops a regenerative model that supports local development, promotes sustainable mobility and creates meaningful experiences through education, participation and nature-based design.

Castel del Piano living heritage reconnects archaeology, landscape and community to regenerate two abandoned rural sites of high historical and environmental value, transforming them into shared cultural spaces linking heritage, nature and local identity.

Transforming an abandoned building into a vibrant community library, the Dromolaxia-Meneou initiative creates an inclusive space for learning, culture, and connection—bringing people together through knowledge, creativity, and shared experiences.

AGORA-LIVE transforms a former raisin warehouse into a multifunctional civic hub integrating local production, culture and community use. Through adaptive reuse and structured co-creation, it establishes a low-impact, accessible space and it creates a vibrant hub that supports local producers, reconnects generations and turns heritage into a shared, everyday experience.