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The paper introduces the MILIEU H2020 Project 'Women, disability and inclusion - scientific excellence in Bulgaria' - a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) project funded under the Horizon 2020 Programme, 'Spreading excellence and widening participation - Twinning' Call. The project aims to unlock, foster and sustain high-quality research at the intersection of studies on women, disability and inclusion by promoting collaboration, networking and an intensive exchange of research between partners. As a project to widen participation, MILIEU is specifically focused on driving excellence and enhancing the research-related fundraising and management competencies of the scholars and staff of the coordinating partner from the target country - in this case, the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The paper introduces MILIEU's goals, methods and expected impact and presents the principal tasks and activities in implementing a project related to fostering research in the areas of women, disabilities and inclusion. It also describes the risks and challenges faced by MILIEU and the consortium and how they were overcome and turned into success stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sculpture-environment has developed since the 1970's, and it in France particularly represents an artistic planning of territory that directs our attention to the relationship between people and their surroundings. A mesological point of view could be found in the way of planning oriented by interpreting the environment. And this interpretation refers to the mediance, a concept defined by Augustin Berque as a dynamic coupling of being and its milieu. Due to the eco-techno-symbolic perspectives, the concept opposes what modern sculpture and architecture focus on - privileging the autonomy of art and the abstraction of place. Also, appearing at the time of postmodernist art characterized as cynic and anhistorical, the sculpture-environment provides another vision of art: a territorial research method. However, the landscape perspective is regularly neglected in sculpture-environment studies. This paper briefly reviews the notion of "environment" and the synthesis of sculpture and architecture in French sculptural praxis. It investigates how the sculptureenvironment makes the mediance reappear and the complex reality is produced along the way. By applying the mediance as the model for realizing the relationship between the society and its territory, the study attempts to theorize the praxis of sculptureenvironment. Three principles constitute the method. The first is a design approach with linguistic orientation. Secondly, the art of mediance provides an undetermined function according to the interaction of society with spatial aesthetic disposition. Finally, it doesn't produce a simple unified image but a guided medial space where people can grasp the sense of place as they walk through. Considering the sculpture-environment in the field of landscape allows us to think about the method of territorial planning from the sculpture point of view. It shows that the environment may not be considered as a mere inspiration of art and neither may be the sculpture as a mere tool for public conversation. Instead, the sculpture-environment is likely to be a trigger to present the sensation and the meaning of place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]