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Three new EU-funded project proposals

September 2025

In September 2025 ATRIUM is submitting three new EU-funded project proposals that aim to strengthen our mission on remembrance, dissonant heritage, and cultural innovation:

• Reclaiming Memory (CERV Programme, CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM-TRANSITION)
  Coordinated by ARGO (Italy), the project brings together municipalities, NGOs and memory institutions from across Europe, with ATRIUM among the partners. It focuses on remembrance of totalitarian regimes and democratic resilience through a new Living History Seminar model.
• MAD HERO – Management and Adaptive reuse of Dissonant HERitage for the future of Europe (Horizon Europe, HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-08)
  Coordinated by APRE (Italy), the consortium includes the Municipalities of Cesena and Krakow, Polis University of Tirana, Buzludzha Foundation, Kallipolis, Novelcore, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, EUROM/Euroclio, and ATRIUM. The proposal addresses the preservation and adaptive reuse of Europe’s contested heritage, with the creation of a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and new educational tools.
• CreateAI – Human-Centred Generative AI for Cultural and Creative Innovation (Horizon Europe, HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-04)
  Coordinated by LINKS Foundation (Italy), the project involves universities, research centres and cultural and creative industries from museums, fashion, music and immersive education, together with ATRIUM. It aims to develop a trusted platform for responsible generative AI to support creativity and safeguard artistic integrity.

Together, these proposals confirm ATRIUM’s growing role in European cooperation, linking remembrance, cultural heritage, and innovation.

Memory Escape - new project presented

June 2025

ATRIUM, together with its member cities Labin and Bertinoro and the Croatian SME Kalimera, has submitted the project MEMORY ESCAPE – Adriatic memory escape: A phygital tool for engaging youth with dissonant heritage under the Interreg Italy–Croatia Programme (Priority 4.1).

The cross-border 🇮🇹🇭🇷 initiative aims to turn the dissonant heritage of 20th-century regimes into an interactive phygital escape room experience co-designed with young people, combining history, storytelling, and digital tools.

ATRIUM working on third recertification

June 2025

The ATRIUM team is currently working on the dossier for the third certification as an official Cultural Route of the Council of Europe.

This is a key step in confirming the European recognition first awarded in 2014 and successfully renewed in 2018 and 2022. The certification process offers an opportunity to reflect on the progress achieved and to reaffirm our commitment to being part of the broader Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme, representing and promoting the 20th-century dissonant architectural heritage and its related history and memory.

Përmet, Albania - new Atrium member

June 2025 (Përmet, Albania)

On 23 June 2025, on the occasion of the 4th Transnational event of the Eurban Deco project in Përmet (Albania), the Mayor of the new ATRIUM member was handed over by the association's Director Claudia Castellucci the certificate of membership to the European Cultural Route ÀTRIUM, which it joined during the last General Assembly of the Association in April.

ATRIUM inaugurates "Europe's Architectural Wonders"

June 2025

Thanks to the successful collaboration between the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Programme and the European Travel Commission (ETC), galleries showcasing the certified Cultural Routes are now featured on the official VISITEUROPE.COM website. ATRIUM, together with the Colonia AGIP in Cesenatico, inaugurates the “Europe’s Architectural Wonders” section. 

Beyond the Surface - new project approved

June 2025 (Forlì, Italy)

The project “BEYOND THE SURFACE”, funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region, was recently approved. The project, part of the EUrban Deco project, is dedicated to the knowledge and critical valorisation of the heritage linked to the colonial past. In recent days, the team met with the committees of the 8th and 9th districts of Forlì, where some streets - such as Via Somalia, Via Eritrea, Via Tripoli and Via Bengasi - bear names connected to colonial history.