Centro de Innovación - Innovación, Creatividad, Ideas, IMP³rove. Sustainability Network. The DEEDS (DEsign EDucation & Sustainability) project, funded by the European Union Leonardo da Vinci Programme, comprises a partnership of five institutions from the European design and sustainable development communities, embracing Higher Education, research and practice.
The project aims to demonstrate the actual and potential added-value of a sustainable design approach to design educators, design students, design professionals, as well as the wider design industry and policy-makers. DEEDS aims to raise new levels of awareness by integrating information, knowledge and thinking, while developing design approaches, in order to inspire, catalyse and transform design teachers, students and professionals and encourage development of ‘natural’ value-based (not cost-based) habits that move us towards more sustainable ways of living and working. Innovation Cooperation (PRO INNO Europe ®) - Industrial innovation - Enterprise and Industry. During 2006-2012, the PRO INNO Europe® initiative has been the focal point for innovation policy analysis and policy cooperation in Europe, aimed at learning from the best and contributing to the development of new and better innovation policies in Europe.
The ultimate objective was to help European enterprises to innovate better and faster and to optimise and leverage complementarities between the various innovation support measures in Europe, be it at regional, national or European level. To achieve this, PRO INNO Europe® has given a prominent role to national and regional innovation policy and innovation support actors. The initiative comprises 5 building blocks that provide an integrated policy approach to develop new and better innovation policies. Design Index. AUSTRIA - The MAK is a hub of emerging global communication.
Thus, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles1 and the Artists and Architects-in-Residence program at the Mackey Apartments are central to an intense discourse on the interweaving of contemporary themes in art and architecture. BELGIUM - The Design museum Gent is a cultural institution of the City of Gent. Since January 1999 the museum has been recognized by the Ministry of the Flemish Community in the highest category. The accent in the collections and exhibitions lies on 20th century and actual design.