ROME (ITALPRESS) – Regenerating cities, their unused spaces and buildings by aiming for sustainability: this is the New European Bauhaus (NEB). The protagonists of the conference “New European Bauhaus and the tourist development model of cultural villages in the 2021-2027 programming cycle” are 40 cultural villages between Calabria and Sicily, with their projects for the redevelopment of properties and abandoned areas. An international team of experts in contemporary architecture, creative design, environmental sustainability, social inclusion, interactive technologies, economics and management of public and private funds, has selected the municipalities in the two regions of Southern Italy with the aim of making these places not only more livable and attractive, but also socially inclusive, promoting tourist residentiality and launching new cultural and artistic activities.
“An initiative that brings together a different cultural approach to the use of funds for our territories” said the Minister for European Affairs, the South, Cohesion Policies and the PNNR, Raffaele Fitto “two factors are fundamental: the quality of spending and an overall vision that addressed the different ways of using resources, which has always been missing. For many years, in cohesion policy, we have had a great opportunity but the quality of spending has often not achieved the objectives, now we are faced with a very important transition. There is not a problem of resources but of how to spend them well.”
The New European Bauhaus is an initiative of the European Commission inspired by the famous German Bauhaus school of the twentieth century, which today merges with the vision of the Green Deal, adding a profound cultural dimension and accelerating the green transition. “There is a renewed perception on the importance of knowing how to use these tools” the words of the president of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto “outside the institutions there are energies that urge the institutions to use European Union programs and this means that something it’s changing, until a few years ago the attitude was passive, we were never protagonists in using these opportunities, something is changing. What is being done on cohesion policy may mark a breaking point compared to the past. I am here to ensure the full institutional support of my region for the urban redevelopment project.”
For Andrea Messina, councilor for local autonomies and public functions of the Sicilian Region, it is “a new program that will give many communities the opportunity to regenerate abandoned areas and monuments, an opportunity that can help the tourist offer and improve the ‘ economic activity of the territory.
Many municipalities in our region also have particular and additional difficulties compared to other municipalities in the rest of Italy. We try to provide additional help.”
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