This international ERASMUS+ project introduces students in higher education to practice-based research, helping them develop skills to pioneer sustainability innovation in their media careers (2026 – 2029). Multiple workshops empower students to gain important experience in transdisciplinary research in the film industry and give them tools to shape a more sustainable and democratic media landscape,…
This EU project under the Driving Urban Transitions programme develops a participatory foresight methodology to co-create mobility visions for the 15-minute city (2025 – 2027). The project empowers citizens to actively shape future urban mobility cultures through six civic labs in Brussels, Kortrijk, Matosinhos, Budapest, Cologne, and Toruń. CONIFER explores access, perceptions, and narratives around…
Social Art is artistic expression created with the intention to generate social impact and meaningful change. It challenges dominant systems, questions the status quo, and opens space for new ways of seeing, feeling, and acting. Since 2017, the Social Art Award has brought together visionaries and changemakers from over 147 countries, united by the belief…
The Art For Futures Lab brings different stakeholders together to interdisciplinary working on the challenges of the 21st century. During the co-creation workshops, regenerative visions and strategies for probable and desirable futures are developed. Started in collaboration with Film University Babelsberg in 2020, the AFFL spreads knowledge about social and technological innovations as well as…
Ocean Future School Lab empowers youth to create sustainable blue economy futures to become leaders in ocean stewardship.
This initiative is designed to empower young people fostering civic engagement and social entrepreneurship through a digital platform.
The EU project Green Education in Media (GEM) reconnected media curricula to today’s environmental reality encompassing nature and its phenomena as well as man-made environment. GEM developed digital skills and competencies ref. the creation of digital and virtual worlds occurring as story-worlds in filmmaking, serial writing and games, virtual explorable worlds in XR and digital…
This project engages citizens in co-creating future scenarios for sustainable coastal futures
The Universal Sea movement pushes forward solutions to ensure resilient futures of our oceans. With an innovative, efficient and results-orientated approach we explore new collaboration models between art, science, technology, and business together with the public. It was initiated as a project (EU co-funded 2017 – 2019) and has been a massive undertaking by establishing…