Living smart with climate change

About this project

<p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri"><span style="color: #000000">The project focuses on raising awareness on sustainable housing, as construction industry and households have a considerable effect on climate change. Professionals in construction and the whole society should be informed and understand the importance of pattern changes in building industry and change of our living habits. The project will present low-emission solutions to overcome the irrationality of the current conventional construction approach, methods and technologies that ignore the significant environmental impact of high embodied energy of the building materials, have a poor thermal performance and result in high operational household energy consumption, which contributes to the greenhouse gas emissions. Also, the project highlights solutions in integration of climate change adaptation into housing by reducing imbalances on the ecosystems and respecting the local climate, resources and place.&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri"><span style="color: #000000">The </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri"><span style="color: #000000"><strong>project objective</strong> is to foster an effective engagement of professionals in construction and the general public in support of climate friendly behavior through improved awareness and capacity building on low-emission and climate adaptation solutions in housing.&nbsp;</span></span></span></p>

Bilateral cooperation results

Bilateral Partner, Fosen Folkhighschool, micro enterprise from Norway, shared knowledge on about wood, re-use of materials, building long-lasting houses and window-making/restauration and contributed to development of the concept of “tiny house” promoting eco-housing in Slovakia.

Project partners

• Fosen Folkehøgskole Donor project partner· Norway
• ArTUR Project partner· Slovakia