2024-11-27 12:35:00
Yesterday, section head Elmar Pichl (BMBWF) and section head Christian Holzer (BMK) presented the Sustainability Award 2024 in gold to the Co-CreART project team. Co-Creating Change. Vice Rector Mario Kostal and Elke Zobl from the Interuniversity Institution for Science & Art accepted the award at a celebratory award ceremony in the Vienna Boys’ Choir concert hall.
The meeting of art, science and technology is part of the inter- and transdisciplinary project “Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change Transdisciplinary Lab for Transformation” is the focus. Over the next few years, the CreART Lab will be developed together with children and young people, a mobile educational space with offers to deal with innovative ideas and possible solutions on the topics of sustainable construction and living as well as climate-friendly mobility in a variety of ways. What is special about it is that artistic-creative and scientific-technical approaches intertwine and problems are addressed from different perspectives and in exchange with actors from a wide variety of areas.
From March 2026, the CreART-Lab will go on “tour” and stop, for example, at schools, museums and public spaces. “Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change” won in the “Learning” category. “The project team is very pleased about the award and that we can use the prize money to involve even more young people in the development of the mobile CreART lab,” emphasizes project manager Maria Kalleitner-Huber.
Co-CreART 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 Interuniversity Institution for Science and Art. Other cooperation partners include: State of Salzburg, City of Salzburg, Holzcluster Salzburg, Spürnasenecke, Pioneer Garage, Spektrum Association, Radiofabrik Salzburg, FS1 Salzburg, Salzburg Education Directorate, BG Seekirchen and HTBLuVA Salzburg.
Project management:
Ass.-Prof. Katharina Anzengruber PhD, Department of Music Education at the Mozarteum University Salzburg (on maternity leave), DI Maria Kalleitner-Huber and Sandra Kobel, MA
Funding provider: Climate and Energy Fund, Co-Creation Spaces Climate & Energy 2022 Funding processing: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Project volume: 650.000 Euro
The Sustainability Prize for Austria’s colleges and universities is awarded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and honors those projects/initiatives that deal with the complex relationships the ecological, economic, social and cultural dimensions of sustainable development in the sense of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Der Sustainability Award is awarded every two years in the four categories of learning, research, anchoring and cooperation. The Sustainability Award 2024 will be awarded once in gold and twice in silver for each category by an international jury made up of representatives from science, practice and the media. It is endowed with Ꞓ 3,000 and Ꞓ 1,000 each. The trophies presented are small biospheres. They were designed and constructed by the Viennese artist Anatol Stelzhammer as part of a competition. Each copy is unique.
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