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The Michinoku Coastal Trail is a 1,000-kilometre walking route along Japan’s Pacific coast, created after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Co-managed by communities, government, and volunteers, it connects 29 municipalities while passing 251 fishing ports, national park landscapes, and diverse coastal landforms. Walking at human speed fosters healing, ecological stewardship, and regional renewal, transforming disaster-affected territory into shared infrastructure for resilience.

Two Doves House transforms a 100-year-old rural home in Pohrebea, on the Nistru River, into a living cultural space. By restoring traditional architecture and hosting retreats, workshops and community gatherings, the project reconnects people with local heritage, nature and village life. It shows how small-scale restoration can revive rural identity and inspire sustainable tourism in Moldova.

Bucha Forest Classroom is a nature-based learning space created for children in Bucha, where education, sustainability, and community come together. Built from natural materials and powered by renewable energy, it offers a safe, inspiring environment for hands-on learning, healing, and reconnecting with nature after the trauma of war. The was co-created with local community, children as well as international donors and volunteers under the New European Bauhaus Co-create 2025 Open Call.

Three traditional tarafuri bring authentic folk music back to life in the villages of Lipnic, Bârnova, and the town of Ocnița in Moldova. Young and elder generations play old melodies on traditional folk instruments, keeping the sounds and stories of living musical heritage alive. The project successfully safeguarded the old tarafuri, reinforcing the communities’ living heritage.

The Barnahus offers a secure, welcoming, and fully accessible space where children and families experiencing trauma can access social, legal, and healthcare services under one roof. Designed around users’ needs, it applies universal design and stakeholder collaboration to strengthen trust, inclusion, and local capacity. The project is a replicable model showing how architecture can unite beauty, function, and social impact to build resilient communities.

EmpowerED is a cross-border vocational education project that connects contemporary art and design, professional English, and entrepreneurship skills through multilingual and digitally accessible learning materials. By strengthening cultural understanding, employability, and digital resilience, it helps young creatives build sustainable careers and contribute to a more inclusive and future-oriented Europe.

Insieme – Track, Trace, and Transform Reclaimed Stories is an architectural installation built from reclaimed bricks salvaged in Switzerland and Italy. Historic Üetliberg and Venetian bricks are repaired with a novel 3D-printed biomaterial made from construction waste. Engraved QR codes let visitors trace each element’s origin, transformation, and future reuse, demonstrating how architecture can preserve memory while advancing circular construction.

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CLIC SEA transforms human hair waste into biodegradable barriers that capture pollutants in marine environments. By turning a global waste stream into regenerative environmental infrastructure, the project protects coastal ecosystems, improves water quality, and supports circular blue economy solutions. Already implemented in ports, CLIC SEA demonstrates how circular innovation can reconnect industry, nature, and communities while restoring the health of our oceans.

BioGS-1.0 is an innovative, high-tech micro-CHP system for homes and small businesses. Using residual or waste biomass, it produces electricity, hot water, and biochar. It can meet the user's entire energy needs, achieving complete self-sufficiency. Biochar is a useful soil improver; its production makes the system carbon-negative and completes the perfect circular economy of biomass. For the first time, cogeneration is home sized, distibuted and perfectly circular.