NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

A boost of recognizing the potential of neglected public spaces as capacities for re-creating new inclusive and socially vibrant places that strengthen community through social cohesion and re-identification. Improving the ecosystems and urban biodiversity by creating a sense of belonging and strengthening the local cultures and habitats, at the same time. A multidisciplinary approach makes it excellent for developing new learning tactics and discovering new sustainable values for all citizens.

Today's children will face increasingly harsh environmental conditions and health risks, yet they are excluded from conversations about it. How can children be included in this conversation? What learning environment tools and experiences can we provide to them? New Children's Museum's of the Pauls Stradiņš Medical History Museum in Riga will explore these questions using One Health approach.

The ESD Certificate is an Austrian-wide program that launched in October 2022. Education for Sustainable Development is the foundation for enabling students to shape a sustainable future. However, there is a lack of education opportunities on how to integrate ESD principles into teaching, especially for university teachers. Our program aims to overcome those shortcomings. After successful graduation, university teachers will be able to teach in accordance with a sustainable development.

The tactile standardization of colors – known as the Scripor alphabet – is a concept based on the extension of the Braille alphabet. This innovative, easy-to-learn, and universal chromatic standardization allows persons with visual impairment to read, write, differentiate and recognize colors. Using the principles of Universal Design, the Scripor alphabet is designed to empower the blind, colorblind and people with visual disabilities, enabling them to live inclusively, in a colorful world.

Design with Nature, for Life.
The Listen to Your Land approach is an initiative that aim to brings a deeper understanding of the land as a first step in sustainable and regenerative project development. It is a guide for local governments as a first step in designing better spaces.
By combining permaculture philosophy, bioclimatism and regenerative design, Listen to Your Land helps unlock land's potential for thriving.

The Soviet Army Missile Base territory in Zeltini parish, Aluksne Municipality is a public territory owned by Aluksne Municipality. The aim of the New European Bauhaus project (initiative) is to create a high-quality and safe tourism, entrepreneurship and nature research infrastructure and a complex management solution in the territory. Currently 20 ha of military heritage can be seen, partly used as a tourism object and partly for entrepreneurship.

How can students help to create more sustainable land management models?

"For a living forest" is a transdisciplinary service-learning project that connects students with local communities and land stewardship thanks to the involvement of more than twenty teachers from different departments.

"For a living forest" sprouts from the severe forest fires that devoured 1200 hectares in 2019, approaching several towns and forcing the eviction of the school where the project is being developed.

Liquid Dependencies 'What does a decentralised caring society look like? ' is a role-playing game for 10 players in which they build long-term, mutual, caring relationships. In the course of the game, the players are assigned characters to bring alive with their own experiences. Over the course of an afternoon, the players will spend 20 to 30 years of life together and cope with a series of personal and social events. What kind of society will these players create?

The CCIs are the engine of economic and social development, but they carry a series of deficiencies that impede their evolution. It is necessary to structure and strengthen the sector by providing it with specialized resources, creating connection platforms and training professionals to grow competitively. The SNIC intends to generate the instruments that allow the processes of cross-innovation to be accelerated, contribute to territorial cohesion, improve the resilience and productive capacity

The Posidonia Festival aims to be the first international event between Nature and Tourism Sustainability in Apulia, organized in the Tremiti Islands MPA.
It is an event to make known the practices that promote the protection of Posidonia oceanica, the natural environment, and, at the same time, an opportunity for sustainable development, environment, and tourism.
A laboratory for the study and comparison of the tourism sector, creating promotion and linking, in an innovative way.