PACESETTERS is a powerful alliance of 15 partners of diverse scope, scale and focus. The consortium draws on long-term experience, outstanding competences and specific expertise. It is fresh, dynamic, and bold in its ambition, but experienced and solid enough to ensure that it achieves its objectives. With its diverse composition and high aspirations, it represents a new drive to push past the limits of business as usual and find new, different, open ends. The stakes are very high: unprecedented challenges demand everything to prevent the worst from happening. However, crisis situations are full of potential to rethink, undo and reframe.
PACESETTERS is a research project that brings together partners and places, creative practice and research perspectives that are out of the ordinary: climate scientists and artistic entrepreneurs, difficult heritages and whitewashed villages, psychometrically validated surveys and circular aesthetics. All partners share the confidence needed not just adapt to but drive the transition into more just and sustainable economies. They came together in the conviction that innovation mainly happens where it is least expected — for example, in cultural institutions that are well-anchored locally even if they aren’t globally branded. Genalguacil’s public museum foundation, Galway’s art festival, and Nowa Huta’s cultural centre C.K. Norwida may be small-scale organisations but they are lean, flexible and experienced enough to produce huge effects and impacts in their communities and beyond.
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HORIZON EUROPE program and is funded under the Grant
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