The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) announced, on Wednesday 20 July, the 18 citizen Engagement projects selected to receive support under the EIT’s ‘New European Bauhaus’ (NEB), the European Commission announced in a statement on the same day.
Each of these citizen-led projects will receive between €15,000 and €45,000 to support the testing and scaling of their innovations.
Selected from over 100 proposals, the 18 projects, to be carried out in 14 countries, including Ukraine, address the support and integration of refugees into communities through art, the transformation of urban spaces or the development of port areas. The countries where projects will be developed are Slovenia, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Malta, France, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Ireland, Bulgaria, Italy and Latvia.
Among the selected projects: SOCIAL4FOOD in Italy, which empowers young people, including young migrants, in collaborative farming and cooking, highlighting local culinary heritage; ProdMeSe, a modular settlement project for refugees based on the outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine; or H4H, horticulture for the homeless in Ireland, which engages qualified horticulturists to teach horticulture, food growing and sustainability.
Link to projects: https://aeur.eu/f/2p9 (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)