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| Street LIFE – building community spaces in Spain |
Madrid is a fast-growing city, with population growth resulting largely from immigration into the urban area. The city is expanding in particular to the south-east, with the development of the Vallecas area. 26,000 new apartment dwellings are being built, ranging from small units to larger, upmarket developments. The city authorities hope this will result in a diverse, mixed population.
Nevertheless, in one area of the new development, primarily low-cost housing units are planned. At the same time, the trend in commercial development is for large-scale shopping centres separated from residential areas. Madrid's Municipal Housing and Land Authority (Empresa Municipal de la Vivenda y Suelo – EMVS) was therefore concerned to develop eco-friendly facilities in the low-cost housing area that would benefit quality of life and help prevent any future “ghettoisation” of the district.
This was the basis for the LIFE-Environment project Mediterranean Verandahways (LIFE02 ENV/E/000198), which ran from September 2002 to August 2005 with an EU contribution of €601,000. The objective was to evoke the Mediterranean spirit of outdoor public life through a contemporary urban design project for an open space in the newly developed district of Madrid.
A key issue for beneficiary EMVS was the heat of summer in Madrid – how to encourage residents to use outdoor public spaces in temperatures that can reach 40 degrees. A design competition was held and won by the studio Ecosistema Urbano, who proposed to line a semi-pedestrianised boulevard with pavilions that would act as “air trees”, providing shade, ventilation and vegetation, whilst functioning as “social activators” - bringing people outdoors – in the yet-to-be-built neighbourhood.
The prototype pavilion consists of 17 metre tall steel cylinders (using 80 percent recycled steel), with inner surfaces overgrown with ivy. At the top, funnels draw air into the cylinders. When temperatures reach 27 degrees, ventilators activate and propel the air down into the cylinders and through dampened cellulose panels, creating a cloud of water vapour and reducing the temperature of the falling air by 8 to 12 degrees. The pavilions therefore offer both shade and cool air. Because the design functions best at high temperatures and low humidity, it is ideal for – and transferable to – most Mediterranean cities. The designers expect the temperature under the pavilion to be 10 to 15 degrees cooler than the surrounding area.
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........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................| Perforations – week of live art |
The outcome will be new
performances and projects by Balkan artists, as well as round table discussions, workshops,
presentations and networking sessions. The project aims to become a platform to improve
production, presenting and collaboration conditions for artists from the Balkans
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Following the major floods in different parts of the United Kingdom in June and July 2007, the Commission
decided on 10 December 2007 to propose to the budget authority to mobilise the Solidarity Fund and to grant financial aid amounting to EUR 162.388 million
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| Seed Money Fund |
The objective of the Seed Money Fund is to provide small grants for the preparation of proposals for individual project applications to be financed from the EEA Financial Mechanism and Norwegian Financial Mechanism. The intermediary for the Seed Money Fund will be the Centre for Foreign Assistance of the Ministry of Finance (National Focal Point). The Fund will be used to support sub-projects whose purpose is to prepare technical, financial and legal project documentation, prepare project ideas that are particularly innovative or complex, and support the development of projects that involve the future applicant as well as potential or existing partners. Preference will be given to applications particularly suited to meeting the cross-cutting objectives of sustainable development, gender equality and good governance.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture |
During a ceremony held today in Barcelona, the European Commissioner responsible for Culture, Ján Figel’, and the mayor of the city, Joan Clos, presented the Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas, with the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.
The biannual prize, established in 2001 on the initiative of the European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, rewards excellence and innovation in the conceptual, technical and constructional qualities of European works. Created within the framework of the European Culture 2000 programme, and with a prize of €50 000 and a sculpture by the Catalan artist Xavier Corberó, the competition is aimed at both experienced and novice architects. In total, 242 works of architecture were nominated for the prize that was open to projects completed between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2004, by experts in the field and national architecture associations throughout Europe. An international panel of judges comprising nine members[1] and presided over by Zaha Hadid (who was awarded the prize in 2003) chose the winner from a list of five finalists that included – besides the Dutch embassy in Berlin – the headquarters of Swiss Re in London, the Selfridges & Co department store in Birmingham, the Forum 2004 esplanade in Barcelona and the Braga municipal stadium in Portugal.
At the award ceremony, Commissioner Figel’ said that: "the projects nominated for this prize illustrate the cultural importance of architecture to the everyday lives of Europeans, as they combine functionality with beauty. They play an essential role in the creation of a harmonious and practical environment".
Also awarded was a special prize for up-and-coming architects, whose winner receives €10 000. This went to the BasketBar project in Utrecht, run by the architects Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse and Mark Linnemann.
A total of 28 of the works nominated for the award will be displayed together in a travelling exhibition.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| Wind energy in urban areas (WINEUR) |
The objective of this project is to promote and raise awareness about urban wind turbines technologies and to remove regulatory and economical barriers.
Urban turbines are a fairly new product. The market for them is underdeveloped and there is apparent lack of knowledge with these products. WINEUR brings information to partner countries’ decision makers, mainly local authorities, in order to sensitize to this new renewable energy technology and permit its potential development.
To mobilise key actors and to involve local authorities, Wineur provide information related to the existing technologies, the economics, the regulations, procedures and guidelines specifically related to Urban Wind Turbines.
Wineur also leads in partnership with some cities feasibility studies for urban turbines implementation and the project ensure close consultation with key stakeholders throughout workshops, seminars, community consultation.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| SHARE |
The overall project objectives of SHARE are to increase sustainability of energy use and reduce associated carbon emissions and the risk of uncomfortable and unaffordable fuel bills in social housing through:
- raising awareness amongst relevant actors of these benefits for residents and landlords
- promoting practical ways to achieve improvements
- promoting behavioural change by residents
- enabling exchange of information and experience both between local actors and European partners
Each partner is following a common theme and approach, and designing a local programme relevant to their own local context. The common features are:
- Bringing together key local actors in social housing energy forums that take place approximately every three months. In these forums, the partner facilitates discussions and guest speakers on energy related issues.
- Development and delivery of a series of targeted training courses
- Development and delivery of local energy awareness and advice campaigns
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| Short Term Actions to Reorganize Transport of goods (START) |
An efficient distribution of goods is crucial for the vitality of the centres of European cities. Current goods distribution however, causes emissions and is not necessarily energy efficient.
Complementary to the long-term planning to make goods transports more efficient, the cities within START, Bristol, Göteborg, Ljubljana, Ravenna and Riga, will take a short term approach and combine actions such as access restrictions, consolidation centres and incentives. These measures will benefit both businesses and citizens by making the goods distribution more energy efficient and hence reduce the related air pollution.
The START approach is based on close collaboration between the city government, transport companies and local businesses formalised in local freight networks, which will be established in every partner city. The networks will have periodic meetings where the activities and the progress are discussed. The networks will also serve as an effective marketing tool towards the transport businesses.
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............................................................................................................................................................................................| TRANSIT: Transatlantic International Business and Trade Scholars Programme |
Canisius College NY (US lead), University of Antwerp BE (EU lead), and IECS Ecole de Management de Strasbourg FR (Robert Schuman University) will award dual Bachelors degrees, one from the US and one from the EU, in the field of international business. Participating students will each study at the other two institutions as well as the home institution. Each institution carefully coordinates its program with the other two so that the student is simultaneously fulfilling requirements of both degrees. The target is for 48 students, 24 from the US and 24 from the EU, to complete the dual degrees based on tehir study during the funding period. Intensive language and cultural study is required of all mobile students. Faculty mobility and development are an essential part of the project.
EU funding: 408 000 euro
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