How can community and deceleration be promoted and lived? “District Future – Urban Lab”, the urban development project of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in cooperation with the Karlsruhe Citizens Foundation, looks for people, who wish to start and implement own “sustainability experiments” in the Oststadt of Karlsruhe. Participants will be supported with a total amount of up to EUR 12,000. “Your Sustainability Experiment” is scheduled for a duration of nine months. Interested citizens can apply with their proposals until June 12, 2016.
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