The “Faget Forest-Park: Cluj’s Green Lung” project from Romania has won one of the prizes awarded at the second edition of the New European Bauhaus Festival (NEB), on Friday evening, in Brussels, with European Commissioners Elisa Ferreira and Iliana Ivanova present on stage, according to Agerpes.
The Romanian project, which competed in the strand for established projects, in the category “Reconnecting with nature”, aspires to co-design and manage an integrated management plan for the Faget Forest-Park.
As many as 20 projects and ideas from the European Union, the Western Balkans and Ukraine, which are in line with the NEB values, have been recognised by the European Commission as being in line with the NEB principles, namely sustainability, inclusiveness and beauty, showing the manner in which the European Green Deal is been transposed into the people’s lives and helps communities.
“I believes that [this award] represents an extremely important recognition at the European level of the projects that the municipality of Cluj-Napoca is developing,” Ovidiu Cimpean, the representative of the Cluj-Napoca City Hall, as the former head of its Local Development department, and current secretary of state with the Ministry of Investments and European Funds, at the award ceremony of the projects registered for this edition of the festival.
“By the way, this is not the only award that Cluj has received at the European level. For example, the Cetatuii renovation project has been evaluated by the European Commission as a project in preparation that meets the values of the European Union and the New European Bauhaus. I think that we need to promote these principles of the New European Bauhaus more at the national level. All public projects should observe these values, they all should be beautiful, sustainable and achieved together with the community, with the citizens,” added the representative of Romania at the awards ceremony.
The 2024 edition includes a special award for reconstruction projects from Ukraine, as well as a strong focus on EU regions facing socio-economic constraints or green transition challenges.
Winners received their awards today during a ceremony at the New European Bauhaus Festival from Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, and Iliana Ivanova, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, in the presence of Vsevolod Chentsov, Ambassador of Ukraine to the European Union.
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