On Friday, November 8, the BE-WoodEN project was presented at Ecomondo in Rimini as part of the call for papers. Ecomondo, the premier annual event in the green and circular economy sectors, serves as a key gathering for industries, stakeholders, policymakers, opinion leaders, research organizations, and institutions, promoting the development of essential strategies for the European Union’s environmental policies.
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Liguria Region, in collaboration with University of Genoa, organises an innovative workshop on New European Bauhaus (NEB) approach for the renovation of a social housing building and its open areas in Imperia– a coastal city of Liguria region - owned by Azienda Territoriale Regionale per l'Edilizia (ARTE) Imperia, allocated to elder and fragile people.
On Friday, November 8, the BE-WoodEN project will be presented at Ecomondo in Rimini as part of the call for papers. Ecomondo, the leading annual event in the green and circular economy sectors, serves as a meeting point for industries, stakeholders, policymakers, opinion leaders, research bodies, and institutions, facilitating the development of key strategies for the European Union’s environmental policies. Attendance will require an Ecomondo entrance ticket!
Winter School Florence 2025 *
Winter School, hosted by the University of Florence, offers three days for going in-depth about characteristics of wood and its actual behaviour in timber construction, through hands-on activities. It will include laboratory experiences covering the following:
The first batch of 8 webinars has been published and is currently available only in Italian, but they will soon be available in English. These webinars, each lasting about 2 hour, are conducted by European experts in wooden construction and are aimed at architects, engineers, designers, students, freelancers, and anyone interested in learning more about quality wooden construction.
Today sees the start of Let BE-WoodEN, the NEBletter of the LIFE BE-WoodEN project Buildings and Education in Wood Ecosystem for the New European Bauhaus, which will accompany us between 2024 and 2025 to report on the project's results and activities.
We begin with an introduction to the project from the voice of its coordinator, Prof. Giovanna Franco of the Department of Architecture and Design of the University of Genoa.
On Thursday 18 April, the event "Developing new skills in Liguria for the implementation of the New European Bauhaus" was held at Palazzo Ducale in Genova. It focused on the theme of capacity building and the new skills needed to operate in a NEB perspective.
The meeting, which was part of the European NEB Festival, besides continuing the reasoning around the consolidation of a NEB community in Liguria, was also an opportunity to provide updates on the latest developments, initiatives, and projects that the Brussels Office of the Liguria Region is carrying out on the subject.
Two days of work and sharing to effectively start the two-year project, with important cultural, social, business spin-offs.
The Kick-Off Meeting of the Be-WoodEN project was held in Genoa on February 27-28. Two days of intense and fruitful work, where the complementarity of the Partners allowed for an open and in-depth discussion on the ambitious goals of the project.