The project's general objective is the construction and strengthening of knowledge on urban sustainability, recycling, the circular economy and possible actions for adaptation to climate change for communities located in the southern suburbs of Reggio Calabria, in line with the tactics of city ​​of knowledge of the Association Pensando Meridiano, training young people under 35 as makers who guide involvement and transformation actions with communities and citizens. Other partnership spaces are identified in the collaboration with dArTe - Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, in knowledge qualification pathways and workshops for university students in university courses, the innovative startup PMopenlab srls, the Department of the Built Environment of the TU/e from Eindhoven (Netherlands), the Municipality of Reggio Calabria, the local and national neighborhood associations, with which the proponent has already shared paths of social innovation and primary and secondary schools of the first and second degree of the southern suburbs of Reggio Calabria.

The adopted capacity building tactics (seminars, workshops, direct making actions) are necessary to sensitize the communities on the importance of circular processes and the adoption of good practices in reference to the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs 11 "Sustainable Cities and Communities" and 13 "Climate Action" of the 2030 Agenda. In fact, training, information and education activities on the issues of sustainability and resilience are planned, together with making actions for the sustainable transformation of the territory and urban areas aimed at young people under 35, interior of a sensitive context in which phenomena of environmental and social degradation are detected, also referring to the poor quality of the spaces and the urban built-up such as the populous southern suburbs of Reggio Calabria.