NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The City of Uzice implements the concept of inclusive protection and promotion of the river Djetinja gorge. Interventions include applying innovation logic to restore people-nature-culture connectivity and social cohesion through technologically enabled inclusive, participative, transparent, responsible, responsive and accountable interactions and transactions. Improving of management system of protected natural area in order to secure long-term existence the most endangered species and habitats

After a long time of separation by the railway, heavy traffic and industrial structures, the Trenčín regains its riverbanks. Thanks to temporary structures, cultural events and placemaking, people of Trenčín are learning how to make relationship with the space that would become a new central district in the future. The long-term participatory decision making, which was behind the architectural competition and the change in the city’s land-use plan, thus continues at the site.

Grey goes Green in a Golden process (1) provides children in densifying cities with inclusive, diverse, and accessible spaces to play ; (2) empowers children and their communities to take climate action, learning how they can adapt their city to climate-challenges, through a fun, hands-on process. (3) provides cities with tools how to turn the little leftover spaces into climate-adaptive play spaces while empowering their young citizens;

The MLF has refurbished a new medical outpatient clinic to offer free medical examinations to the homeless and socially marginalised. Specialist examinations in the areas of dentistry, cardiology, dermatology, otorhinolaryngology, pneumology, gynaecology, ophthalmology and psychiatry are offered to all persons who request them. All this in a 200 m2 space equipped with technologically advanced medical equipment, a completely new dental department.

The small village of Rippershausen in southern Thuringia is located in an economically weak part of Germany. For this village, a group of architecture students planned and detailed a long wooden colonnade to create an architectural symbol of the sense of community and the connection between people. In an intensive participatory process, the students built this extraordinary structure together with people from the village community, and it has been actively used ever since.

Together making a neighborhood more beautiful, greener, more sustainable, more livable and inclusive ...
it means self-construction by the residents of their naturalized neighborhood, with the technical support of the young environmental designers of the Tar group of the University of Seville; EPS, and with the Civic Center of Torreblanca - Juan Antonio González Caraballo of the Civic Center of Torreblanca City Council of Seville that leads the social movement in the neighborhood.

PIANTA-STORIE is a project of diellemme, created to spread the relationship with environment by involving schools in workshop activities, making young people protagonists of positive actions,re-valorizing the City of Salerno on abandoned areas to green them up, redevelop them, promoting local cooperation, political dialogue and learning about sustainability issues by incentivizing society itself to act as an ethical engine by giving society a greater shared sensitivity, the territory a new face.

Color Up Peace is a peacebuilding startup that leverages originally designed intersections of artistic innovation and digital-technological innovation as peacebuilding and freedom-building strategies. Color Up Peace has been working to create virtual, visual and embodied spaces of peace and belonging for such groups of people as displaced Ukrainians. And it has been working to equip its participants with artistic-technological peacebuilding tools to empower them as peacebuilders.

The project consisted of the analysis of the potential of reuse and a pilot plan for the collection and upcycling of waste (furniture, mattresses, appliances, textiles and others such as kitchenware or decorative objects) mainly from the hotel sector. Preparation for reuse and upcycling has been carried out through socio-labor workshops and the creation of jobs in insertion company. The analysis of viability and economic sustainability of the activity has also been developed.

The Municipality of Sfântu Gheorghe is encouraging families and children to walk to school as one of the safest, healthiest and most enjoyable ways to start their mornings. Children participating in the programme meet at predetermined times and collection points, from where they walk to school accompanied by adults. The programme is a volunteer-led group initiative to encourage school children aged 6-10 to walk to school every morning.