Activating Heritage for Sustainable Development

In Ballina the project explores the potential of institutional buildings and sites to provide distributed centres for the EU Green Deal and the NEB in Irish towns, relating to the preservation of social, cultural, and artistic heritage and the integration of new communities.

In Elefsina the initiative aims to engage the city’s neighbourhoods in the cultural and urban planning initiatives, via innovative sustainable and participatory design actions, emphasising all sorts of ethnical, religious, cultural, economical and educational inclusion

In Milan the project focuses on farmsteads and aims to strengthen the ecosystem of people and cultural initiatives orbiting around each cascina by establishing ecological practices and collaborative design installations as applications of NEB principles.

Fund4ACT is a strategic platform designed to tackle funding challenges for heritage projects by supporting community groups to demonstrate their competence and the impact of their proposed heritage actions in relation to the New European Bauhaus Compass. Fund4ACT is being used by the pilot sites to test potential additional fundraising streams from local businesses and individuals who are interested in pledging towards local heritage activation.

SustainACT is a tool for assessing and contributing to sustainable targets including the New European Bauhaus (NEB), European Green Deal (EGD) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It facilitates input from individuals and community groups in the design process, translating sustainability goals for a broad audience. SustainACT is being used by the pilot sites a sense-making activity to help participants to identify the proposed heritage solutions many potential impacts.

Fund4ACT and SustainACT are just 2 of the 7 HeritACT tools which have created to engage citizens to reactivite their local culture heritage. Discover more at heritact-toolkit.eu