NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

So many of the skills that we need to live a sustainable life already exist, we just need to learn from each other, and the generations before us. Common Knowledge is a new kind of place for learning, a place that celebrates and shares practical skills to support people to live a truly sustainable life - skills like building, making, mending and growing. By learning these together, across generations and perspectives, we can become more confident, capable and connected as communities.

The Japanese knotweed is a fast-growing plant which in Europe is known for its invasive and intrusive characteristics. What many do not know is that this species has a multitude of positive attributes ranging from its delicious taste and medicinal properties to its potential for being the base of biomaterials. The Japanese Knotweed Festival investigates how, in collaboration with various creators, we can contribute to a way of living together in harmony with this contested plant.

Based on NATURE and ARCHITECTURE, SCHOOLYARDS project, drived by TREES_Ecosistemas, accompanies RENATURALIZATION processes through Participative Projects of Innovation and Pedagogical Transformation to RECONNECT with NATURE.
Developed in collaboration with the entire educational community, PUPILS become the main ACTORS of the whole process.
Projects to promote DIVERSITY and BIODIVERSITY in Educational Centers with an eye on the SDGs, thus turning them into true LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS

Is it a form to present the city hall of Freixo de Espada à Cinta, and the many iniciatives that it promotes to increase the landscape and the population.

Rupert's Alternative Education Programme (AEP) is a para-academic learning initiative embracing transdisciplinary exchange, intersectional practices and decentralized knowledge exchange. In 2022 the 10th edition of AEP activated part of former sewing factory, where for five month participants-led temporal project space DSL transformed empty spaces into dynamic experiment of urban regeneration.

A former industrial building in Copenhagen is redesigned to house an open learning community, The Green Free School. Focusing on interaction between innovative, traditional and new ground-breaking competences, students develops courage and skills to be a part of creating a sustainable future.
Long innovative learning projects enables students to solve challenges in the real world. Environmental, social and economic sustainability are included in various forms in every learning project.

Up-Wonder merges fashion, experiential education and entertainment with a zero waste approach.
It is a system to up-cycle clothes, a multi-sensorial experience where the attendees are part of a live performance with paint. As a result, all their clothes are renewed and acquire a symbolic image of co-creation, sustainability and beauty.
It is a proposal that not only tackles the waste issue, but also educates, entertains and empowers people from all walks of life to be part of the solution.

How can you be active in learning about your town? FirstLife is a local civic social network we use for innovative forms of community mapping and media&digital education based on a Neogeography approach. It gives a voice to young citizens with the aim of fostering their participation in the co-creation of the places where they spend daily lives. We have used FL in schools over the years, inspiring thousands of teenagers to be protagonists of a sustainable, inclusive and beautiful environment.

EKOA is a Learning Community, a group of families searching for a better learning environment for them as parents, for their children and the community. We have been working on the autonomy, sociocratic relatioships, community involvement, ecological practices on agriculture and healthy food with children. And
in moment, we have an open window to act on Carbon Zero construction with HempEcoSystems, across borders, to be ambassadors of Climate change on Circular Economy goal.

Preschool institution "Naša radost" participate in Erasmus projects since 2017. We realize 7 Erasmus projects. In 2022. we got EITA award for one of them. 4 Erasmus projects are closely connected with reconnection with nature and sharing knowledge to parents, local community and wider ( "Play and learn in Nature", Children in Action against Climate Change", Wild Horizons- Outdoor Learning Experience" ). Early years education about climate change and nature is a very good base for the future.