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Placemaking for Climate Mitigation (P4CM) is a regional project funded by the Citizens, Equality, Rights, and Values program of the European Union, focused on addressing pressing climate challenges in the Balkans. The project works to foster collaboration between communities, public authorities, and experts from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece, using placemaking to transform public spaces into climate-resilient hubs.
P4CM seeks to strengthen community engagement in tackling environmental issues such as waste management, unplanned urbanization, and extreme weather. By enhancing public understanding and cooperation, the project promotes a collective response to climate challenges, enabling communities to adapt their urban spaces sustainably.
Building understanding of the environmental agenda: The project seeks to create an understanding of the environmental agenda among the public, civic organizations, and experts through organizing series of deliberations among the stakeholders.
Engaging communities: The project aims to gather opinions related to the environment and climate action from communities through placemaking activities. By involving the public in these activities, potential environmental challenges on the community, neighborhood level can be identified.
Empowering cooperation for environmental actions: The project aims to build capacities in the public, civic, and expert sectors to cooperate effectively in environmental actions. By providing knowledge and tools for collaboration, the project encourages joint efforts in addressing environmental challenges.
Fostering regional collaboration: The project also aims to create a Balkan understanding of the environmental agenda. By promoting knowledge exchange, partnerships, and networking, stakeholders can support each other in their environmental initiatives.
Collaboration and engagement of diverse stakeholders—citizens, public authorities, and experts—from local to regional levels.
Community-Centric Approach by empowering local communities to co-create climate solutions through placemaking.
Prioritizing eco-friendly, climate-resilient solutions for urban spaces.
Transparency and Inclusivity
Regional Cooperation and uniting efforts across the Balkan region to develop scalable climate solutions.
P4CM uses a placemaking approach to reimagine everyday spaces by involving communities in their design. The methodology prioritizes grassroots participation and co-creation, focusing on small, actionable steps that lead to long-term environmental sustainability. Through placemaking, communities gain ownership of public spaces, making them more resilient to climate risks while fostering social cohesion and local democracy.
Projects that transform public spaces to mitigate climate issues, including municipal waste management, urban greening, and flood resilience.
Training citizens, authorities, and experts in climate action and placemaking techniques.
National and regional events gathering diverse stakeholders to discuss environmental policy and share successful climate strategies.
Involving community members in decision-making processes to ensure local needs are integrated into climate solutions.
