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The heart of the original Bauhaus was an educational project. Established by the architect Walter Gropius in 1919 with the purpose to combine art, technology, and life to transform living and working processes. Prof. Gunter Pauli created a pedagogy approach through Gunter's Fables to synthesize academic knowledge, arts, emotional intelligence, systemic design, and the ability to implement. The bilingual collection contain 365 inspiring stories that illustrate how Nature help us find solutions.

Mindful photography is a way to reconnect with nature. For the beginner or already hooked on photography, this is a nature workshop where you will find inspiration and structure to get out and get going. Work the scene. Catch that fleeting feeling. The happiness from experiencing the light filtering through the leaves in the forest turns your photos into haiku poetry. With a camera, pen, and all your senses open - welcome!

This project arises as a response to a large forest fire which caused a significant loss of the natural heritage of the Hellín region. In this project, art and ecology work together to broadcast to citizens what happens after a fire, and make them participants in the change in order to strengthen their engagement to this cause.

To do this, the project include workshops which are framed on the Municipal Environmental Education Program in its XXII edition.

This project aims to promote the ability and information of young people to take advantage of opportunities for employment and guidance/career orientation, making autonomous choices to reach their full potential. This approach will be developed and promoted through innovative and coherent methods, such as a dedicated web platform, trainings and internship.

Maçarico is a +ATLANTIC ocean literacy program that aims to promote knowledge, awareness and actions for the preservation of the ocean in a transversal and holistic way. Focused on children and young people, it includes a program of various activities that offers them a playful way of learning about the origin of the ocean and its importance for the planet, reinforcing knowledge through scientific experiments. The goal is to reach as many children and young people as possible, so that we can all

The project "Fighting together against prejudices and stereotypes – TCN’s employment and entrepreneurship" is an example of effective integration measures, incl. for vulnerable persons (and children) seeking/receiving international protection. By creating a supportive, motivating and beautiful environment, it has contributed to meeting needs, participation and empowerment, through training, joint entrepreneurial and cultural initiatives, changing the attitudes of the host society, rapprochement.

EUROCULDE is an initiative that was born from our school to generate social and cultural value in our context, trying to open our pasture, as a natural environment, to the population; looking for new balances and uses of it that help its recovery and the restoration of its biodiversity.
Our project seeks a transformation, built on 3 European cultural itineraries. In these, you can find 27 stands have been designed (9 on each route) that correspond to the 27 countries of the European Union.

Univerbal (Liege, Belgium) trains migrant women community interpreters and is an intermediary with the local healthcare services employing them. Univerbal empowers its beneficiaries: Univerbal’s interpreters receive quality and tailored training, regain self-esteem, combat structural unemployment, provide service directly helping other migrants, and have shared governance of their project. Those receiving interpretations obtain affordable, quality services with short waiting time.

An active group of young international professionals operating in Calabria with a transdisciplinary approach.
We operate in the voids of territories, physical and virtual, in search of abandoned shells, occupying space and assuming its shape. We want to create a new community by feeding through exchanges of knowledge in to inhabit a place temporarily but constantly. We are looking for a new model of living and working collectively, as opposed to a hyper-specialized and competitive work culture.

EDEN LAB aims to develop innovative ideas for transforming educational spaces, including through the presence of - and active interaction with - plants, to create healthy, resilient educational landscapes that nurture the full potential of children and youth.
EDEN is also a project, a word that recalls dreams, the dream of rediscovering a more intense relationship with nature, the dream of a truly special, beautiful, humanising school. And dreams condense into places that educate us.