NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

"Re-creating a square or... an urban space" is an ongoing national project intending to bring signs of care and meaningful beauty in urban environments of social interaction, both open such as a square, or interior such as schools. It involves students, teachers, artists, experts and stakeholders from a variety of fields to plan, elaborate and create artifacts and installations attentive to sustainability and capable to trigger positive feelings and attitudes.

The popularity of mountain biking is booming across the world, amplifying the need for more trails and skilled trail builders to plan, design, construct and maintain sustainable trail infrastructure across Europe. This was the impetus for the Developing Intereuropean Resources for Trail builder Training project, started by IMBA Europe and an international project group representing both volunteer and professional trail builders, education providers, municipalities and tourist destinations.

The primary objective becomes that of responding concretely to a state of loneliness related to the consequences of the lives of homeless people. The specific objectives: to determine greater autonomy in the life path of the subjects involved; promote the acquisition of new social skills; create forms of contrast to social unease.

Kids:Magika is an open space for kids to explore and discover their talents. Events, where they can discover arts, science, body-oriented practices, and circus arts embedded in an interactive theater play with a shared, living story where reality and fantasy blur. Cocreating a story in which children learn about community, sustainability, and inclusion. The goal is to help them to manifest their dreams and find hope to shape their lives with a sustainable vision for their future.

The goal of this project is to create Hardboard with the addition of wool fibers.
Hardboard is a high-density fiberboard, similar to plywood, but it is pressed under
higher pressure and temperature, so it has greater hardness. Sawdust, waste from
the production of boards, slats, beams are most often used for their production, i.e.
all wood processing waste is used. Our idea is to add wool fibers to production in
addition to waste.

Due to the current climate emergency context, it is urgent to install renewable energy infrastructures in our territories. Its deployment in a disorderly way can generate adverse effects on the social, cultural or landscape values of regions and cities. The document presents an impact evaluation methodology, so decision makers may move towards the much-desired compatibility between the installation of renewables and the conservation of the values of our cultural heritage

The objective of the project was to make children actors in their environment and help them improve one or more spaces through a project that embodies their own voice and needs. Regular workshops have been conducted with childrens between 6 and 11 years hold in order to make a diagnosis of the state of the neighborhood, to choose together a place of intervention, to imagine the change of the chosen space, to discuss with the technical services concerned and finally to follow the construction

‘O Nosso Chão’ is a game that combines real experiences with a digital environment, challenging children and youngsters to observe, propose and improve their spaces and communities in an innovative, practical, and inquisitive way. The game promotes different experiences in the places where they live or study and with people who inhabit them, increasing social cohesion and motivating the young population to create habits of engagement and participation with cities in the short and long term.

Ser'Água is an education and cultural association providing support and opportunities to learn for children from 3 years old to a 100. Located in the agricultural village of Vairão, Portugal, it is rehabilitating the historical building of the parish council. The idillic landscape is an inspiring setting for the development of a new generation fascinated by Nature, learning the tools to heal the Earth. A community that thrives thanks to the involvement of it's members and local partners.

Olbin Open Garden is a community garden open to all, operating since 2017 on the Ołbin estate in Wrocław. We operate according to a permaculture design system, growing organic food that we celebrate and share. We care about the Earth and the People. We integrate around various educational and cultural events, creating a living civic laboratory. We support similar initiatives, willing to share experiences and good practices.