"Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change!" nominated for the Sustainability Award 2024
The combination of artistic-creative and scientific-technical approaches is at the centre of the inter- and transdisciplinary project "Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change" project. Together with children and young people, the CreART Lab will be developed over the next few years, a mobile educational space with various opportunities to engage with innovative ideas and possible solutions on the topics of sustainable building and living as well as climate-friendly mobility. As one of 12 projects out of 182 submissions, "Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change" came out on top in the "Learning" category.
Children and young people aged between 12 and 19 are invited to develop the CreART Lab together as part of various activities. This is a mobile, flexible and expandable laboratory that includes a wide range of educational programmes on the topics of climate-friendly construction, housing and mobility. The special thing about it is that artistic-creative and scientific-technical approaches are intertwined and problems are addressed from different disciplinary perspectives and in dialogue with actors from a wide variety of fields. From March 2026, the CreART Lab will go on tour and make stops at schools, museums and in public spaces, for example.
It is a project of the Mozarteum University Salzburg in cooperation with the Paris Lodron University Salzburg and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, located at the Inter-University Centre for Science and Art. Other cooperation partners include: the state of Salzburg, the city of Salzburg, Holzcluster Salzburg, Spürnasenecke, Pioniergarage, Verein Spektrum, Radiofabrik Salzburg, FS1 Salzburg, Bildungsdirektion Salzburg, BG Seekirchen and HTBLuVA Salzburg.
- Project management: Ass.-Prof.in Katharina Anzengruber PhD, Department of Music Education at the Mozarteum University Salzburg
- Funding organisation: Climate and Energy Fund
- Project management: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
- Project volume: 650,000 euros
The Sustainability Award for Austria's higher education institutions and universities is presented by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and honours those projects/initiatives that address the complex interrelationships between the ecological, economic, social and cultural dimensions of sustainable development as defined by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (SDGs).
The Sustainability Award 2024 is presented in the four categories of learning, research, anchoring and cooperation. The project "Co-CreART. Co-CreatingChange!" was one of twelve nominated projects out of 182 submissions. The Sustainability Award 2024 will be presented once in gold and twice in silver in each category by an international jury of representatives from science, practice and the media. It is endowed with € 3,000 and € 1,000 respectively.
The award ceremony by Federal Minister Polaschek and Federal Minister Gewessler will take place on 26 November 2024 in the concert hall of the Vienna Boys' Choir.