Cooperation project “Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change!” wins the Sustainability Award 2024 in Gold
Head of Section Elmar Pichl, BMBWF, and Head of Section Christian Holzer, BMK, presented the Sustainability Award 2024 in Gold to the Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change! project team on November 26, 2024. Vice-Rector Mario Kostal (Mozarteum) and Elke Zobl (Interuniversity Institution for Science & Art) accepted the award at a festive award ceremony in the concert hall of the Vienna Boys’ Choir.
The meeting of art, science and technology is the focus of the inter- and transdisciplinary project Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change! Transdisciplinary Lab for Transformation. Together with children and young people, the CreART Lab will be developed over the next few years, a mobile mediation space with offers to explore innovative ideas and possible solutions on the topics of sustainable building and living as well as climate-friendly mobility in a variety of ways. The special thing about it is that artistic-creative and scientific-technical approaches are intertwined and problems are addressed from different perspectives and in exchange 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. As one of 12 projects out of 182 submissions, Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change came out on top in the ‘Learning’ category. “The project team is delighted with the award and that the prize money will enable us to involve even more young people in the development of the mobile CreART Lab,” emphasizes project manager Maria Kalleitner-Huber.
The Sustainability Award for Austria’s colleges 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 honors those projects/initiatives that deal with the complex interrelationships of the ecological, economic, social and cultural dimensions of sustainable development in the sense of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (SDGs).
The Sustainability Award is presented every two years in the four categories of learning, research, anchoring and cooperation.
Im Bild die Preisverleihung v.l.n.r.: Elmar Pichl (BMBWF), Mario Kostal (Universität Mozarteum Salzburg), Elke Zobl (Wissenschaft & Kunst, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg), Christian Holzer (BMK) und Jurymitglied Klaus Taschwer. Copyright: Sacha Gillen/Forum Umweltbildung
27.11.2024
Award for Austria's colleges and universities
