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In 2023 a corn maze was created in Dubrovčak Ljievi, small village near Ivanić-Grad, inspired by the motives of the local embroidery named "Hrvatica", like the corn maze in 2022, but this time three times bigger in size. Informative panels and an interactive game were installed in the maze for self-guided tours. A seasonal event "Posavina Days" was also organized in September with visitors from all over the region. The local community greatly accepted it as a sustainable way of cultural tourism.

This is the first municipality’s urban regeneration, „fit for all” project, implemented through participatory budgeting. The project refers to a deserted and abandoned area near the railway station transformed into a modern park with trees, green spaces and automatic irrigation system, sustainable lightning system, leisure and fitness areas, playground for children, 2 pump tracks for teenagers.

Mercado do Bolhão is a unique building, part of the memory and identity of Porto’s people. The project, attentive to the existing heritage, aims to enhance the identity and coherence, removing spurious elements and managing new infrastructures without losing its central values - sellers, users and the fresh market activity.

La Llama Waterpark is an attempt to democratize acuatic leisure in an age where the expansion of private pools is getting more and more common. Through the waterpark, the city of Torrelavega has revived one of its main squares as well, Plaza de La Llama, located in a neighborhood historically known by inmigration, segregation, conflicts and spiritually separated from the rest of the city. La Llama now acts as a link between both sides, attracting people of all ages and upbringings

Il Bosco Integrale, a project in the city of Cento, promotes man-nature integration through sustainability and innovative education. 5 hectares of forest in a highly industrialized area, which preserves the environment with accessible routes. It involves volunteers for the management of the forest, transforming pre-existing structures into spaces for social activities. Art and architecture merge, offering beauty and man-nature connection. Inclusion is key, with a focus on accessibility for all.

SEAQUAL INITIATIVE is a unique collaborative community fighting marine plastic pollution. By working together to clean our environment, we help protect the ocean and biodiversity, and restore its natural, healthy state.

But we do not stop there. We continue to aim for a positive impact by upcycling the marine plastic we collect into an innovative, 100% recycled textile solution, which has already given life to many sustainable products.

Brussels has had no public outdoor swimming places for the past 40 years. To inspire change, POOL IS COOL, together with Decoratelier, created a small public outdoor pool next to the Brussels canal in Anderlecht in 2021: FLOW. Reviving a derelict urban site that has been severely neglected, FLOW serves not only as a prototype of an environmentally and socially sustainable outdoor pool for the city, it is also a socio-cultural place that lives through local communities and their involvement.

A customers abandoned living house and technical buildings were put to rejuvenation process to rebuild is a renting place with several units of separate rent rooms in a popular resort by the sea - Pāvilosta

Naturagara artliving path is a nature based pilot project and a first of its kind in Spain that follows the Stockholm Agenda 2050 of Sustainability. It has been designed with the aim of enhancing nature connectedness, wellbeing and more sustainable lifestyles for all the 50,000 visitors that may walk on its path in a year and those around the world that may want to share the experience in four different languages and online.

CATRAIA is an admission free multidisciplinary festival that includes concerts, films, art exhibitions, workshops, lectures, sport and awareness-raising activities. It takes place in August at Praia da Tocha. CATRAIA aims to fill a gap regarding a lack of environmental awareness events in the central region of Portugal and intends to bring people from different backgrounds and generations to the conversation about climate emergency.