Venice, a potential protagonist of the New Bauhaus Initiative

Venice symbolises many of the emerging social, environmental and economic problems of European cities, particularly art cities, and can therefore become a model for solutions capable of combining sustainability, inclusiveness and beauty. Venice's strategy is centred on an idea of a plural, solidarity-based and sustainable city that focuses on its metropolitan dimension. The city's areas of interest that can better converge in the New Bauhaus perspective are: urban regeneration and sustainable local development, valorisation of cultural heritage and sustainable tourism, sustainable mobility, digitisation and provision of accessible and quality digital services, social inclusion and social innovation.
In March 2022, the City of Venice launched the 'Venice World Capital of Sustainability' project with the aim of implementing a plan of interventions for the promotion of the economic, environmental, technological and sustainable growth of Venice and its Lagoon, in line with the strategy outlined in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Moreover, Venice has very recently been chosen as a partner in the EU Urban Agenda's Sustainable Tourism Partnership, which will be presented and officially launched during the "Cities Forum 2023"  to be held in Turin on 17-18 March 2023. Venice was also shortlisted in the European Capital of Smart Tourism 2022 competition and it is one of the 126 cities selected in 2020 by the ICC (Intelligent Cities Challenge) initiative promoted by the European Commission focusing on two policy objectives, sustainable tourism and sustainable mobility. 
Since 2000, Venice has been involved in more than 150 EU projects, both as LP and PP. The EU Policy Department manages and supervises all EU-funded projects in which the city is involved and has a competent, multilingual and multidisciplinary staff.  Currently, Venice is one of the partners of the NEB project "Bauhaus on the Seas sails" (BoSS), which aims to achieve climate neutrality solutions for coastal cities, and is involved in several other projects mainly on the themes of environment, culture, innovation and sustainable tourism such as STREAM and ADRIACLIM (Interreg IT-HR), HYPERION (Horizon 2020), H2GO (Eit Urban mobility). In the last programming period, COV has successfully managed as coordinator (LP) 3 projects in the field of environmental protection and sustainable mobility: GREENERSITES (Interreg Central Europe), I-STORMS (Interreg Adrion) and PUMAS (Interreg Alpine Space). In the field of sustainable tourism, COV was one of the cities partner in the Tourism-friendly Cities project (Urbact III) exploring how tourism can be sustainable in medium-sized cities and in SLI.DE.S (Interreg IT-HR) developing strategies for more sustainable and balanced territorial development of tourist destination.