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postponed, others have reached the launchpad.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span lang="EN">We are delighted to
announce that this month we officially inaugurated the <i>Roots and Seeds XXI. Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance </i>project<i>, </i>an international cooperation between <a href="https://ars.electronica.art/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Ars Electronica</span></a>
(AT), <a href="http://www.olats.org/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Leonardo/Olats
</span></a>(FR), <a href="https://www.ub.edu/web/portal/en/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">University of Barcelona</span></a> (ES) and <a href="http://www.quoartis.org"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Quo Artis</span></a>
(ES) as lead partner, developed with the support of the <a href="https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe_en"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Creative
Europe Programme</span></a><a href="https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe_en"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"> of the European Union.</span></a><a href="https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe_en"><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><span></span></span></a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe_en"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><span></span></span></a></span></p>

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project advocates for a more sustainable future and aims to foster habits to
take better care of our environment, specifically plants. For this purpose, <i>Roots & Seeds XXI</i> will promote
sustainability through actions and commitments that stem from both artistic and
scientific practices.<span></span></span></p>

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the course of two years, the project’s activities will allow the transnational
circulation of professionals in these fields, will fund the production of
artworks and will develop research focused on the biodiversity crisis.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span lang="EN">Some of our
programmed activities are: Talks: Laser events (Paris), International Forum
(Barcelona), Workshop on Botany and Literature (Barcelona), Multidisciplinary
Garden Cartographies (Barcelona, Paris and Linz), Open Call for Artworks’
production and artistic residence in Paris, final Exhibition (Linz), among many
others.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span lang="EN">More to come, stay tune!<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span lang="EN">All the Best<span></span></span></p>

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