NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

MOMO is a winding bench using ecobricks and bioconstruction technique that empowers youth and community members to clean up the environment, repurpose their trash into a building material, learn natural building techniques, and then create a communal gathering area.The Ecobench effectively seals trash from entering the world’s biosphere while serving a clear artistic, educational and social function.
We strive to include men and women, young and old, rich and poor… and everyone in between.

The innovation model aims to empower and support women to better function in the labor market and stems from a multidisciplinary combination of sciences and knowledge and what is considered traditional with what is marked by modernity. The ancient Indian tradition of circles is thus intertwined with modern physiotherapy, career counseling, psychology and art therapy. Through the use of interdisciplinary support, participants will embark on training to strengthen body acceptance and self-esteem.

The "Cité Maraîchère" is a new municipal facility dedicated to urban agriculture in a truly groundbreaking form. It is the first vertical farm of its kind to provide sustainable urban farming in France, to offer fresh, low carbon footprint produces and to promote short supply chains. This urban farm is also a great tool aimed at guaranteeing quality food, developing a social community economy and raising awareness among residents for the management of energy resources.

House in the centre of Domžale was one of few old houses in the area. Anonymous heritage is important for the identity of the place. A financially viable renovation is sustainable and environmentally friendly. We kept the shell of the building. We cleared the interior and preserved the vital elements of the old house. New service volume carrying the bedroom is distanced from the old walls. Living area connects two storeys and opens onto the garden. During the renovation process the owners bonded

5 homeless persons are being relocated after the implementation of the first "HUMAH modular housing" in Brussels at the end of the year 2022.
HUMAH ambition is to increase the supply of affordable housing to fight against homelessness based on 3 pillars :
- building high quality, bio-based and low consumption housing for the most vulnerable people ;
- working with people excluded from the labor market during the construction phase ;
- converting urban wastelands into sustainable city spaces.

The Festival intends to highlight the "common sense" of a creative part of the territory of the two National Parks of Monti Sibillini and Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, straddling the Italian regions: Abruzzo, Marche, Lazio, Umbria, in order to let citizens responsibly and creatively regain a sense of belonging to the territories, to protect and valorize them, with the languages of art, culture and sport starting from the wonderful environmental, naturalistic and cultural microcosm

In a disappearing village, we have created a successful eco-settlement that has been in existence for 10 years now. It has a community of neighbors and like-minded people. We are currently the largest straw-bale houses ecovillage in the Baltic States. The community founded an outdoor kindergarten and a school where children from the settlement and the surrounding towns study. The essence of community manifests itself in helping each other in common tasks, exchanging home-made products, fests.

No one stays on the ground. By not being able to enjoy accessible and affordable activities, we design realities for all people, reconnecting with the place where they/we are living, with its rivers and surrounded by the sea. Taking care for water is caring for the planet to which we belong, designing accessible experiences, real sailing in zero emission electric boats, and virtual using virtual reality technology, open up many opportunities to reduce inequalities.

The pedestrian and cycle route between San Fernando and Chiclana, a project that unites two cities through the Bay of Cádiz Natural Park. In a few words: health and shared experience; marsh, easterly wind, sun, salt and estuaries; battles and 1812 Constitution; Sancti Petri channel, Atlantic Ocean, Spartina maritima, Platalea leucorodia and Salicornia; right to landscape, managed territory, sensitive stakeholders, maps, artists, joint synergies; and overall opportunities, past and future.

Vitápolis is a cooperative housing complex and common areas, with social assistance services for seniors that aims to provide answers to their physical, emotional and economic needs.
It is a place where the elderly can live and enjoy life, without fear of the limitations that the passage of time imposes.

Vitápolis is a project where the aesthetic conditions of the building are presented as a basic and indispensable condition to ensure well-being.