The PARTNERS

Politecnico di Milano is a scientific-technological public university that trains engineers, architects and designers.

It has always focused on the quality and innovation of teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with the economic and productive reality through experimental research and technology transfer.

ICCS, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, is a non-profit Academic Research Body established in 1989 by the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs to carry applied Research and Development activity in the areas of telecommunications, computer systems and their application in a variety of research themes. ICCS is linked to the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and in particular with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). ICCS consists of more than 50 labs, research groups and teams, dealing with all aspects of Electrical and Computer Engineering and employs approximately 800 researchers and scientists including Faculty Members, permanent or long-term Researchers.

Karakorum is a cultural and creative enterprise that works to transform culture into a strategic element for sustainable development. Artists become protagonists of transition processes and valuable interlocutors for all sectors and areas of value production at a social, environmental and economical level.

Karakorum operates both at regional and national level, but chose to take root in Varese, a small town on the Swiss border, where, alongside its work in artistic, immersive and participatory production, it carries out a cultural-based urban regeneration project.

COAL, association created in 2008 by professionals contemporary art, ecology and research, mobilizes artists and cultural actors on the societal and environmental issues and promotes essential role of creation and culture in awareness, the transformation of territories, and the implementation of concrete solutions.

Semantika is an innovative software development company based in Maribor, Slovenia with experience in Software Development, Web Solutions, Mobile and Multi-Touch Applications, specialising in high security and data intensive applications. Semantika is primarily active in the area of research and development of advanced software solutions, especially for the cultural heritage sector, including two in-house developed products:

• Galis – a collection management system, used by more than 70 institutions in three countries and
• Dynamic Data Development Platform – enabling us to quickly deliver custom build data intensive software for a wide variety of clients, already used in a range of sectors.

Novelcore is a consulting, programming and information systems design company established in 2019. Its team comprises a group of full-time ICT experts, researchers, developers, project managers and administrative personnel. The fields of research and innovation that Novelcore mainly focuses on are technologically oriented to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning techniques, Big Data Analysis, Knowledge Management, Distributed Ledger technologies and Internet of Things. Its main areas of expertise are deliberation mapping and analytics, knowledge graphs and explainable Human-Machine Intelligence, building Machine Learning pipelines for knowledge discovery and AI Data Schema Transformers.

The gardens are spaces of dialogue between society and nature, laboratories where the potential of plants, animals and human desires are linked.

Nomad Garden aims to encourage and rethink these alliances by developing projects and tools aimed at enhancing the value of gardens, landscapes or urban ecological infrastructures as spaces for coexistence combining classic approaches with more innovative ones linked to data analysis and visualization or digital cartography.

We see urban landscapes as emergent systems with the capacity to readapt themselves through the interaction of their own elements. We understand that other more sustainable interactions are possible in cities, as they are already happening spontaneously. That is why we like to think of projects as opportunities to discover these latent potentialities, as well as to design actions and devices to consolidate the most creative and resilient tendencies.

Łódź Art Center since 2007 has been organizing the Łódź Design Festival, a pioneering event that supports the development of the Polish creative sector, attracting both industry leaders (i.e. designers, producers and distributors) and recipients not professionally related to this subject but who love good design.

The ŁDF program is an annual review of global design trends, presentation of concepts and future visions.

The Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, also called ‘Sutnarka’ or ‘Sutnar Faculty’ for short, is a modern art school whose students, under the guidance of a number of important artists and designers, earn their Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in a wide range of fields focused mainly on design and applied art. It is located in an original building with state-of-the-art equipment and a number of unique studios. The faculty features a team of important art figures and renowned designers with experience from the private sector, under whose leadership students achieve significant success in Czech and international competitions, implement projects in cooperation with professional and international partners, and participate in a number of exhibition projects.

FUNDARTE is an artistic project programming quality events in all the classical performing and musical arts: theater, classical and contemporary music, flamenco, dance, opera and zarzuela and two external events: the Festival de Jerez and the Centro Lirico del Sur.

ERSAF – Regional Agency for Agriculture and Forestry Services – is an instrumental body of the Lombardy Region, in charge of carrying out technical and promotional activities for the development of the agricultural and forestry sectors and for the rural territory, favoring transversality, multifunctionality and integration. With reference to the agricultural sector, the functions of ERSAF include specialist training, technical assistance, the development of technological innovation and company competitiveness, research and innovative services to agricultural companies and agri-food companies, the promotion of Lombardy production, including organic farming, as well as support for agriculture in mountainous and marginal areas and protected areas.

CULTURALINK is a consultancy firm specializing in research, analysis, counselling, and strategic planning in the cultural and creative sector. Our activities encompass the entire culture-creativity-innovation-development axis.

Our commitment at CULTURALINK is to provide high-quality products that improve people’s lives by placing culture and creativity at the centre of public and private practices. Our offerings are designed through rigorous processes by a team of experienced and highly qualified professionals.

BC3 is a research centre on the causes and consequences of climate change. Led by one of the most recognized scientists in the Climate Change field -Prof. Maria José Sanz, it produces multidisciplinary knowledge to support decision making towards sustainable development at the international level.

With a multidisciplinary team, connected to the main scientific institutions, networks and socio-economic agents, for a decade, its contribution to research of climate change and to the science-policy interface puts BC3 in an unique position to offer to Palimpsets knowledge, tools, new methodologies and cross-cutting ideas,  towards action into a collaborative framework with stakeholders, to design and help implement policies aimed at sustainable development.

ANCI Toscana is a non-profit association established to achieve the system of local and regional Tuscan autonomies founded on the principles of freedom, democracy and citizen participation. ANCI Tuscany represents 269 Municipalities and constitutes the regional branch of the National Association of Italian Municipalities that represents 7318 Italian Municipalities. The Association’s main aim is the promotion and strengthening of institutional, regulatory, financial and organizational autonomy of municipalities and other Tuscan autonomies derived by the municipalities, through continuous action aimed at promoting and supporting the effective implementation of the principles established by the Constitution of the Republic, the Statute of the Tuscany Region and European Charter of Local Autonomies.

We are an active research lab based in Copenhagen and part of Aalborg university, dedicated to studying and applying service design. We research and apply service design as an exploratory, co-creative and empowering approach to address issues of societal concern. Our vision is to contribute to knowledge on Service Design and innovation in the areas of 1. Civic service design: service design as an approach to support social innovation and innovation for society. 2. Data-driven service design: the possible contribution of Service Design to digitalization processes and 3. Strategy and design: strategic, entrepreneurial and innovation components of Service Design

The City Council of Jerez (Ayuntamiento de Jerez) is the body in charge of the government and administration of the municipality of Jerez de la Frontera. The city is currently working on compiling the candidature for the European Capital of Culture 2025.