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Motivations behind EMCCINNO
How to explain the work-in-progress of a project consisting of so many angles, with so many objectives and with so many people involved? As a European Horizon project this can get as complex as you can imagine, but we have created this “Internal Flow” section as a way to open…
Playa Futura: Collective Care for Emerging Ecologies
Be.Time SCA designed the educational programme Playa Futura to explore the situation of ourregion’s coastlines in our secondary schools. In the 2024-2025 school year, we collaborated with fifteen teachers from Andalusia and their students. Talking about climate change and rising sea levels provokes fear, indifference, and even outright rejection in…
Transmitting the Signals: Culture’s Essential Role in Climate Policy
When plants are under attack they release volatile organic compounds into the air, triggering defence responses in nearby plants. Neighbouring plants that have not yet been threatened “eavesdrop” on these airborne warnings and proactively bolster their resilience. For example, tomato plants attacked by caterpillars release signals that prompt neighbouring tomato…
From Heatwaves to Donuts: EMCCINNO Partners Dive Deep into Task 1.4 and New Frameworks
As temperatures soared above 40ºC across Europe, the EMCCINNO team gathered online for a crucial meeting Kicking things off on a light-hearted note, Rebecca (RIFS) invited everyone to a virtual minute of cool air inside a traditional North Sea Strandkorb—a symbolic breath of relief amid the heatwave that’s gripping the…
When Doors Open, Roots Reach Deeper: JACC’s Tender Gathering in Coimbra
Jazz ao Centro Clube (JACC) is a cultural association that promotes musical culture, with a special emphasis on jazz Under grey, rain-soaked skies, something quietly powerful took place in the heart of Coimbra. JACC (Jazz ao Centro Clube), a cultural association based in Coimbra, Portugal, and one of EMCCINNO’s five…
You’re Invited: A Festival for Imagining Regenerative Futures Together in Vejer de la Frontera!
Hello EMCCINNO partners and friends! We’re excited to share an open invitation from Be.Time, one of the pilot organisations many of you met during our Kick-off Meeting in February. Although this event is not part of EMCCINNO, it’s a beautiful example of the kind of community-rooted, creative and sustainable work…
Graceful retreat | Retirada digna (ES)
A concept describing a deliberate, just, and creative withdrawal from unsustainable practices, infrastructure, or territories. It reframes retreat not as a defeat, but as a dignified and regenerative step, that opens up possibilities for recovery and renewal. In urban planning, it involves anticipating climate and ecological processes that require the relocation of homes, industrial centres, or other urban facilities. In a broader sense, it can refer to freeing up or suspending areas of action to give space to species other than humans. In the light of recent wildfires across Southern Europe, it resonates as an urgent lens for adaptation.
Joanna Crowson, Jorge Gallardo and Andrew Zionts (Be.Time)