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Manifest beauty

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Open

Publication date

18 March 2026

Expiration date

30 September 2026

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Manifest beauty

Il Manifesta Beauty call, similar to previous years, is aimed at supporting restoration, enhancement, and planned conservation projects for cultural heritage. The 2026 edition, as envisioned in the Operational Program, falls within the "Beauty" intervention area of ​​the 2025-2028 Multi-Year Plan and pursues the goal of recovering and enhancing cultural heritage by promoting initiatives that improve its physical, cognitive, sensorial, and social accessibility.

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The call expires on September 30, 2026

Training webinars

    • Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM | Restoration – Enhancement – ​​Conservation as a tool to ensure a future
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    • Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 12:00 PM | Preventive and Planned Conservation: A Sustainable Strategy for Architectural Heritage: Between the Circularity of Knowledge WATCH THE WEBINAR>

  • Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 12:00 PM | Enhancement of Cultural Heritage: From Accessibility to Inclusion DISCOVER THE PROGRAM>

Material

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Learning outcomes

The objectives that the CRC Foundation intends to achieve are:

  1. encourage intervention on cultural heritage interpreted in its territorial and identity-related dimension, as evidence of human processes and landscape transformation, also encouraging the participation of local communities;
  2. promote the enhancement and enjoyment of heritage, with particular attention to expanding physical, cognitive, sensorial, and cultural accessibility;
  3. Encourage a comprehensive plan for interventions on the area's cultural heritage, triggering a virtuous process of identifying issues in advance, planning and implementing the intervention, and subsequently maintaining and enhancing the achievements, including with a view to future sustainability;
  4. to destroy the ugliness and restore the beauty of a landscape and environmental context of cultural significance.

Sizes

  • MEASURE 1 – PRODUCTIVE HERITAGE, restoration, planned conservation, and enhancement of real estate: the requested contribution for each project submitted must be a maximum of 80.000 euros;
  • MEASURE 2 – EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL HERITAGE, restoration, planned conservation, and enhancement of real estate: the requested contribution for each project submitted must be a maximum of 80.000 euros;
  • MEASURE 3 – FORTIFIED HERITAGE, restoration, planned conservation, and enhancement of real estate: the requested contribution for each project submitted must be a maximum of 80.000 euros;
  • MEASURE 4 – HERITAGE OF RELIGIOUS INTEREST, restoration, planned conservation, and enhancement of real estate: the requested contribution for each project submitted must be a maximum of 80.000 euros;
  • MEASURE 5 – MOVABLE HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES, restoration, planned conservation and enhancement interventions: the contribution requested for each project submitted must be a maximum of 25.000 euros;
  • MEASURE 6 – LANDSCAPE HERITAGE, enhancement interventions: the contribution requested for each project submitted must be a maximum of 25.000 euros;
  • MEASURE 7 – DESTRUCTION, destruction interventions: the contribution requested for each project submitted must be a maximum of 50.000 euros.

Budget

The available budget is 2.530.000 €Mandatory co-financing of at least 30% of the total cost of the initiative must be guaranteed.

Eligible subjects

According to Chapter 5 "Eligibility of Entities" of the 2026 Operational Program, available on the CRC Foundation website, only public and private entities that, based on their Statute, comply with Title IV, Article 11 of the Regulations of Institutional Activities of the CRC Foundation, including schools, may submit their applications.
If participation in the Call is carried out online between several applicants, it will be necessary to identify a Lead Entity and an Operational Contact for the presentation of the project, while
Participation in the group must be confirmed by an agreement, signed between the parties, which must have a duration at least equal to the duration of the project.
Each applicant entity or group must indicate a project operational contact: this person must be recognized by the group, but does not necessarily belong to the lead organization. For restoration projects on movable and immovable property, only grant requests submitted for assets owned by an organization eligible to receive funding from the CRC Foundation will be considered eligible.

Timings and methods for submitting requests

The application must be submitted exclusively in electronic format via ROL procedure activated specifically on the CRC Foundation website (www.fondazionecrc.it) no later than Wednesday, September 30, 2026.