NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

The goal of the Forest and Sustainability project is to link the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using our forests as a common thread. We seek to associate air and water quality with the woodlands in order to make young people aware of how important these resources are in the struggle against climate change.

THE FOREST, a very great example of grow in harmony with key ecosystem services around the planet. The greatest and most beautiful things in life ... grow in silence ...

At Cultura en Vena we believe that culture seriously benefits your health. We bring the arts into places they usually don’t reach —hospitals and rural villages at risk of depopulation. In 2021 we launched our Ambulatory Art Program in different hospitals and small villages in Aragón, Spain. Three different art exhibitions were shown —Francisco de Goya, comics about the covid, and European young artists’ creations for hospitals, together with a folk music festival in rural areas.

ecoviu is an app with the mission to allow all citizens to act 365 days a year versus climate change. In this app the citizen will be able to find many different activities in which to participate to take care of nature: reforestations, hiking while picking up trash, building homes for the biodiversity, excursions to discover the local flora, and many other activities that not only help to connect citizens to nature but also gives them a chance to protect nature.

Lokall is a solidary-based vegetable delivery service, that answers to the pandemic-related needs of three different communities: It creates accessibility to healthy food for those in need, a feeling of belonging for those who were isolated, and new revenue for farmers that could not sell their products anymore. It is run by students and volunteers and aims to make local organic food accessible to all, while spreading the importance of ethical, sustainable, and local food production.

Atotus is a circuit that connects the players of the sustainable fashion supply chain in order to extend the lifetime of every single garment and incentive sustainable products. To this aim, we promote conscious consumption and apply the three ways of the circular economy: recycling, upcycling and reuse. The final consumer is the pivot and the driving force of the circuit, which aims to create connections and synergies among people and companies working together to achieve a shared goal.

MESSAGE was an educational and artistic project in which the community, especially youth, was activated towards environmental protection in an innovative and creative way, by collecting urban waste and transforming it into art pieces. It fostered an interventionist attitude, aroused the curiosity and interest of the entire community concerning good ecological practices and behaviors. The project strived to make people more responsible, wiser, and responsible consumers and active citizens.

Il Respiro della Montagna,"The Breath of the Mountain" comes from the desire to make people feel the peace that you can breathe in front of the peaks. Combining yoga practices with the mountains is an idea of ​​Alice Lazzaro and Giorgia Costenaro to bring people closer to the wide spaces of nature, to the slow rhythms of the mountains, to the balance between active and contemplative life.

Educan is an educational multi-species architecture where dogs, humans and other species coexist and learn together, and where non-humans are at the centre of the design. 

Sitting in amongst fields, in a rural environment transformed over recent decades, Educan school is trialling ways to recover the conditions of the ecosystem. Educan is also an experiment that demonstrates that agricultural architectures can also be places of exploration, innovation, circularity, sustainability and beauty.

Cerebral Palsy and milder neurological conditions are causes of disability for millions of children, who require prolonged rehabilitation, well over what national healthcare systems can provide.  ACCEPT is an engaging platform to support rehabilitation and clinical assessment, in and outside the hospital. A hi-tech adaptive climbing structure, it matches the clinical need with inclusiveness and represents a cheap and sustainable opportunity for rehabilitation and a route to healthier adult life.

#FL2 micro-houses provide a wisely reduced, healthy, barrier free living space designed inspired by Bauhaus. They are built to last generations and following the principle of cradle-to-cradle. Our #FL2 modular micro-houses are built on screw foundations without sealing one centimeter of soil. Their roofs are designed for plants as living space for insects. As the #FL2 micro-houses are made from certified massive wood, one single module stores six tons of CO2. Houses which fit in nature with joy