Projects

23 Climate Things

23 Climate Things is a new global initiative designed to help the library, museum and cultural sectors become dramatically more engaged with the climate emergency.

The Culture for Climate Innovation Prize

The Culture for Climate Innovation Prize is to be a €10-million incentive competition that will award its purse to the first cultural organizations to generate 10-million hours of bottom-up community effort towards the climate emergency.

The goal of the prize is to get Europe’s cultural sector massively and consequently involved in the Green Deal and New European Bauhaus; to catalyze game-changing cultural innovation; and to establish new ways to mobilize the imagination and energy of citizens — especially young people and the young at heart — at a transformational scale and speed.

Incentive competitions are a well-proven mechanism for generating game-changing breakthroughs in a variety of industries, but their use in cultural innovation is unprecedented. This bold approach justified by both the magnitude of the climate emergency and by the untapped potential of culture as a driver of positive change.

The prize is being initiated by a working group led by the Europeana Foundation and the Network of European Museum Organizations (NEMO).

23 Climate Things is in the inception/early startup phase.
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Achieving Green / Cultural Co-green

Achieving Green is a 10-partner consortium of European research universities, cultural NGOs, and localities who are working to develop a greater understanding of the cultural components of green transformation.

Cultural Co-green — short for cultural co-creation for inclusive green transformation — is a new term created by this consortium to denote an emerging set of co-design and cultural engagement practices that communities can use to make their urban design and architecture projects more beautiful (culturally rich), sustainable (transformational), and inclusive (welcoming) in line with the goals of the New European Bauhaus and European Green Deal.

At the heart of Achieving Green is a 3-year program of locally-led pilot projects and research in Helsinki, Cluj-Napoca, Kolšice, and Leiden — as well as online.

The overarching goal of Achieving Green is to find practical ways to dramatically increase local participation in green-transformation initiatives — making them better, more inclusive, and more sustainable — by using culture as a vector for engagement and change. We also hope to have a dramatic impact on how, and how many, cultural institutions (including libraries, museums, creative and performing arts organizations) commit themselves to climate action.

Achieving Green has submitted a Horizon Europe proposal.
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Workshops

We love to help organizations, teams, and communities figure out their own roles in the climate emergency. If you’re interested in a workshop please get in touch!