STARTS REGIONAL CENTERs

THE STARTS REGIONAL CENTERS INTEND TO EXPAND THE STARTS INITIATIVE ON A LOCAL LEVEL TOWARDS A NUMBER OF EUROPEAN REGIONS.

© STARTS Exhibition 'VISIBLE SENSIBLE', held at Fondation Fiminco, September 2020. Courtesy of Quentin Chevrier.

S+T+ARTS Regional Centers - Repairing the present

From June 2021 to December 2022, 12 new STARTS Regional Centers come together from 11 different countries with a common mission: Repairing the Present. To address the unintended consequences of steadfast technological development resulting in the European continent’s present social, economic, and environmental challenges, the partners will propose ways of tapping into the potential of artists to act as catalysts for change and actively contribute to innovation.

The programs explore the possibility of Repairing the Present through resource, urban, ICT & art-powered transformations at a regional level. By creating the context for innovation processes at the nexus of science, technology and the arts, the projects encourage a critique of the present, the exploration beyond its current limitations and the reimagination of other possible futures. While the challenges addressed are pan-European or global, the solutions require a focus on specific local problems. Thus, in Repairing the Present the partners think globally, but act locally by defining challenges that need to be urgently addressed within their localities.

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S+T+ARTS Regional Centers - Towards Sustainability

STARTS Towards Sustainability (S2S) is a STARTS regional centres pilot project set to implement a European network of regional STARTS hubs forcross-sector innovation. S2S aims at contributing to the creation of the European Digital Innovation Hubs by promoting networking and seeding STARTS activities in the regions of the North and Centre of Portugal; Namur, in Belgium; Île de France, in France; Piemonte, in Italy; the Southwestern region of Bulgaria and in Estonia. STARTS activities will also be promoted alongside associated regions such as Oberbayern, in Germany; Lazio, in Italy; Eastern Slovenia; Attica, in Greece, and other EU regions to be engaged during the project. S2S will also contribute to national initiatives of the regions of the countries involved, and make sure its activities contribute to theUnited Nations Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs.

S+T+ARTS Regional Centers - Pilot

The 7 partners of the consortium work at developing a network of players interested in creating local centres in the spirit of STARTS and public activities that strengthen collaborative practices between the fields of art, industry, business, and research. 

As the creativity and transversal thinking of artists lead to innovative and unconventional ideas and practices, the STARTS Regional Centers believe artists teaming up with technologists are capable of imagining a more viable future for European societies, economically, socially and ecologically.

The STARTS pillars promote art as a way to re-centre contemporary reflections around humanist innovations: the STARTS Centers thus embrace the mission of facilitating the implementation of the STARTS pillars in diverse European regions.

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