Bauhaus Goes North (BGN)
About the project
The Bauhaus Goes North (BGN) project is realised by the Green Building Council Iceland together with 13 partners and associated partners from the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) region. The project received funding from the Interreg NPA Programme, co-funded by the European Union.
The project aims to increase stakeholders' knowledge and facilitate the implementation of best practices that align with the New European Bauhaus (NEB) in the NPA region. The project's main focus are practices linked to circularity and resource efficiency.
Deliverables
The NEB initiative was launched to make the European Green Deal a 'tangible experience' - offering a new cultural approach for Europe, a systemic change that is innovative, attractive, and human-centred. It has three core values guiding it:
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Sustainability (circularity, zero pollution, biodiversity)
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Aesthetics (quality of experience, style beyond functionality)
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Inclusion (valuing diversity, securing accessibility and affordability)
The project will deliver:
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a Co-Design Playbook and a Replicability Index tool aiming to ensure the replicability of identified best NEB practices, considering local contexts, competencies, capacity building and policy for supporting the transition to circular and resource-efficient economies;
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three annual Calls for Best Practices in NEB in the NPA Region, which aim to accelerate take-up of replicable solutions;
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four jointly developed demonstrator projects (i.e., a district plan, a campus and a historic building, and a sustainable island development) to illustrate the practical implementation of NEB aspects in diverse settings and contexts.
Overview
Green Building Council Iceland is responsible for Work Package 2 (WP2) in the project:
NEB Best Practices Competition: Assembling and Disseminating Exemplary Cases in the NPA Region.
The main objective of WP2 is to identify best practices aligning with NEB in the NPA region. This will be done through three annual calls.
The chosen winning and front-running practices will be highlighted on the Project website and circulated among various Nordic and European networks to disseminate them effectively. Eventually, the identified best practices will be a part of one of the project outcomes – the so-called Co-Design Playbook.
Project partners are as follows:
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University College Cork, Cork, Ireland;
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Green Building Council Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland;
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OULU University of Applied Science, Oulu, Finland;
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UIT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway;
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City of Bodø, Bodø, Norway;
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Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;
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Cork County Council, Cork, Ireland.
In the project, we also have 7 associated partners from Denmark, Finland, Faroe Islands, Ireland, and Sweden.