NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

How can we imagine different ways of looking at and knowing about plants beyond established botanical systems? Wardian cart is a traveling research station that facilitates other ways of knowing, based on embodied views and experimental methodologies that encourage reflection and empathy toward our environment. The cart tries to re-imagine the colonial botanical artifact “Wardian case” into a tool for workshops to re-frame botanical heritage as a learning tool for a more symbiotic future.

#FoodForEarth-youth creates a network of active students composting communities in schools. #FfE builds sustainable net-zero carbon composting facility in school yard. #FfE inspires and engages the students for regeneration of the soil and climate through inclusive education, art and gardening. It rises awareness and conveys a new quality of experience being part of nature and highlights the curial importance and participation of everyone in solving problems with soils, air and biodiversity.

Using green manual jobs as an integration tool, the schools of ecological transition (ETRE) provide training courses adapted to the needs of young NEETs, combining the acquisition of green soft and hard skills with the discovery of job opportunities in the green economy. It already has 21 active or emerging schools in different places in France which adapt the ETRE pedagogy to the economic needs and social challenges of their territories.

Born in Albania and nurtured with love by students, teachers, and professionals from across the Western Balkans and beyond, the Regional Restoration Camps (RRC) are the living embodiment of Cultural Heritage without Borders’ motto “we restore and build relations.” For 15 years, the RRC have revitalised traditional knowledge and crafts while restoring buildings and instilling a sense of belonging among participants and residents – starting in one small town and now reaching across borders.

An Open School: the core of Stefano Boeri Architetti’s vision lies in the idea that the school of the future can become an epicentre in the urban life of neighbourhoods, a place open to everyone, of all ages, every day of the year. This is the concept that has guided the realisation of the 3 new schools designed in Tirana following an international competition promoted by the Municipality of the Albanian capital, for the realisation of the 20 new schools envisaged in the Tirana 2030 Masterplan.

“Cota 1.20” is an exhibition developed with children from OSMOPE School, that strengthened their identity and sense of belonging towards the city, achieving a more sustainable, meaningful and respectful connection with the planet.
Working from the eye level of 1.20m, there are drawings, photos, videos, sounds, words, modular and paper constructions.
After an extensive field research and co-creating with the designer, the project was constructed and presented at MNAC Lisbon and MHNC-UPorto.

A series of activities & events born from the initiative of passionate individuals, which, by involving communities, companies & universities, helps to raise public awareness about the properties, uses and valorisation of sheep wool. Public webinars, workshops & conference organised in Estonia; a novel online Wool Exchange Platform set up for mediating contacts between wool producers & consumers; an educational material in preparation aiming to raise the wool awareness of craftsmen & designers.

Introductory summer course to the science of biomimicry and the principles of bio-inspired design to innovate in creative processes and design new realities.
The BIODESIGN summer course is an immersive learning program surrounded by Nature, in the Redes Natural Park, in Asturias.
Through different training capsules we will understand what biomimicry is, what its applications are and its work methodology.

"The Path is Yours" is a three-part initiative of the Off the Beaten Path Foundation in Bulgaria, which draws inspiration from the architecture, diverse community, and natural beauty of Southwestern Bulgaria and includes the renovation and upkeep of the community center "Svetlina" in the village of Kovachevitsa as well as the Educational and Community projects "Singing Hearts" for a diverse group of local children and "Plant a Tree," an initiative for the restoration of deforested areas.

Performing Arts - Performing Future is a first step project by the German Federal Association for the Independent Performing Arts (BFDK) in cooperation with the Perform 4 Future Network. The project offers advice about how to implement ecological sustainability measures in the sector of the independent performing arts and training to empower artists, curators and culture creators to actively take a stake in the ecological transformation - here within the performing arts sector.