NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

SHQIPVILLE project is a meeting social place that aims to promote and develop cultural exchanges between Belgium/Europe and Albania through literary and artistic meetings, art exhibitions, music, traditional culinary heritage events, podcast shows, promoting also universal values, such as diversity, integration, economic linkages, human rights, and social cohesion. Thus, we a) Promote Albanian culture and products and b) inform and advise Belgian citizens about Albania's touristic potential.

Invasive mosquitoes of the genus Aedes are a serious problem for public health worldwide as vectors of numerous diseases and the development of “green” and sustainable control practices, alternative to pesticides, is an urgent priority, as the WHO recently pointed out. The active involvement of local communities is considered a key factor for the success of sustainable vector control programs.

There are too many homeless families and too many homes without families. Homes4All is a fair housing model based on innovative impact finance that creates an ecosystem in which needy families find decent and accessible homes and investors make ethical and profitable investments. The project plans to quickly put the huge non-performing real estate assets back into circulation, realizing comfortable, beautiful, and energy-efficient housing in order to trigger a process of urban regeneration.

Charming house in a forest in Belgium, fully renovated with the Well-being process from habitarmonia, with the purpose of making the owners reconnect with nature.
We were tasked with transforming this passive house into a modern, open-plan living space that would not only soften the boundaries between indoors and outdoors but also help our clients reconnect with their natural surroundings.
The design of this home is clearly curated, but it never becomes intimidating or overly made-up.

"Design wings" brings together young designers and small and medium-size Lithuanian enterprises to facilitate their collaboration. Working together they created 15 design solutions that are sustainable, eye-catching and in line with the principles of the circular and/or digital economy. Recent design graduates gained experience while working in the enterprises and creating design solutions. Equally important that enterprises and communities have received sustainable products and services.

Off the Grain is an innovative upcycling project born thanks to the collaboration between ALBINI_next, the Think Tank of the Italian textile company Albini Group and Riso Gallo, one of the oldest rice industries in Italy. It is a new type of dye, obtained from a by-product derived from the processing of a particular variety of black rice grown by Riso Gallo. Thanks to this circularity project, ALBINI_next gives new life to a by-product that is no longer valuable for the food industry.

adira.de is the first German nationwide barrier-free housing portal for exclusively barrier-free and wheelchair accessible apartments.

Grounded Indigo is a natural textile dye that originated in the search for dyeing practices that are more responsible with regard to people and the environment. A doubly evocative name, which summarizes indigo’s bond with the earth and emphasizes Albini’s commitment and pledge to nature: the word ‘Grounded’ evokes both the terrain in which the plants are rooted and the company's respect for sustainability.

Censis Rubliss is a research and craft design agency, acting in the field of fashion/ home accessory and based in La Tremblade (Fr), first oysters'production center in Europe. Focused on bio-sourced materials, geared towards circular economy and thoughtful consumption, the products are handmade out of recovered local industrial bio-wastes, like oysters and mussels shells, and a plant based binder (french origin). They're 100% bio-based, recyclable, renewable, industrially compostable, & local.

Green Tirana is preparing and offer tailored tours and activities in and around Tirana which provide a unique travel experience for tourists in a sustainable way, that help communities to be economically developed and preserve their traditions, especially in unknown areas around Tirana, while educating tourists to be more responsible towards environment and local culture and offering training in the field of sustainability.