NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Let’s do it — let’s connect with nature. Let’s make a change and have fun.
"Let’s Do It by the Sea" is an open environmental festival, where we combine environmental protection, education, and culture. Hundreds of volunteers take action and protect the coastline by fixing the dunes. Participants engage in playful learning experiences and celebrate the positive change with good music.

Everyone can do it with us - just come up with an idea and act for nature together.

We offer interactive tours on the bee farm. Part of the excursion is not only an engaging and entertaining talk about the life of bees, but also direct contact with bees, a demonstration of several types of (even unusual) beehives and the use of bee products - honey, mead, beeswax, etc. We have a total of four types of excursions: in 1) for kindergartens, 2) for primary and secondary schools, 3) VIP for individuals, couples and families and 4) for the public.

The “Ave for All” project proposes a multidisciplinary and dynamic approach to enhance citizen involvement in the water resources management. The ecological quality and biodiversity of the Ave River were monitored, and restoration measures were promoted. Additionally, more than 120 theoretical and practical environmental education actions were carried out to empower target groups with tools to track freshwater quality, debate opinions, and standardize procedures among parish councils

Inclusive spaces for new educational models will be set up in Istituto San Giuseppe, a social cooperative that manages a group of schools in Florence. Creative solutions for flexible lab spaces will be co-designed by children, teachers, school psychologists, and researchers, to enhance active and participative learning for 6-11 years old children. All the students (regardless of age and ability) will be involved and supported by an adaptable multisensory space. Design for all, education for all.

Comvidro is a social project involving women in liable situations to craft and design new upcycling products from "wasted" glass bottles.
The Workshops were developed to promote creativity through sustainable practices while working on personal and social
personal and social skills. This activity fits into the logic of a circular and social economy circuit.

Pietralunga, a small village in the heart of Italy, in Umbria region, is a magical place, one of those territory where the time seems to be stopped and where the beauty of the nature floods the eyes. Together with my wife, born in Romania, we buy an old shabby looking country house and we start our new vision of connection with the nature: eco-tourism, sustainability, inclusion based on the sense of beauty and the re-connection with the nature. We plan to create an ecosystem for schools activity

Students learn about agroforestry & regenerative agriculture through a kitchen garden project. Planting edible plants using permaculture principles, creating a sensory garden, & addressing climate change through the student-run Eco Patrol. The school garden teaches cooperation, inclusion, and promotes sustainable development, essentially reconnecting children to nature.

What can be better than spending a hot summer day on a lake? Only doing so with friends, helping ecologists and urban planners to reimagine our cities! In “Water Rangers Twente” (The Netherlands), children from Ukraine learn about planetary health, collect data, and solve a challenge — designing an inclusive, healthy, attractive urban blue place. The initiative uniquely combines nature, science, art and technology, and contributes to children’s well-being. It includes them in the public

Kozani Goes Green is an environmental educational program aiming to raise awareness and bring a change of perspective towards nature & its protection. The project’s main goal is to promote environmental ethics; understanding humans' moral obligations to protect & preserve the environment is the key towards sustainable living & development. Our project is in line with the selection of Kozani as one of the cities to participate in the EU Mission for 100 climate-neutral & smart cities by 2030.

Zambujal 360 will be the first Public Housing Neighbourhood Ambassador of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.