PIloting COllaborative ways to BEtter Living LOcally (PICOBELLO)

In 2020, the President of the European Commission launched an initiative called New European Bauhaus (NEB). The NEB is a creative and interdisciplinary initiative that connects the European Green Deal to our living spaces and experiences. It aims to support the implementation of Green Deal policies and the wise transition of the environment to be more sustainable, more inclusive and more beautiful. It is a creative and interdisciplinary movement, a platform for experimentation and exchange, promoting collaboration between actors from the worlds of science, technology, art, culture, architecture and design. Moreover, the NEB itself is conceived as an invitation to jointly solve complex social problems.

However, the route to building capacity for integrating the New European Bauhaus principles to the local and regional policies is still a new concept and is not so clear for policy-makers. As such, the project PICOBELLO will support governments to integrate those values into existing policy instruments to leverage and promoting long-term, life-cycle and integrated thinking in the industrial ecosystems.