NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

BION is a biophilic classroom that simulates nature and connects students directly with it, fostering effective and integrated learning. It provides a biophilic learning environment that positively impacts academic outcomes by allowing students to interact and feel part of the natural environment. The concept of biophilic education is used, providing a natural, comfortable and inclusive environment that promotes quality pedagogical construction and meets student's educational needs and goals.

Centered around the intergenerational exchange on urban gardening, the initiative establishes an inclusive urban garden in the heart of of Sarajevo - the University Campus. Aiming to set the ground for a sustainable and inclusive future, the initiative will highly impact the daily lives of seniors and youth. By establishing the meeting point for the transmission of traditional knowledge and new technological discoveries, significant contribution to urban regeneration process will be provided.

Singing is an inclusive and economical way of combating the disintegration of communities and providing the well-being of individuals. With the project Little Citizens Choir - singing citizenship, it was intended to create something in which education for citizenship would be a practical and dynamic process exploring different fundamental thematics for the construction of a civic, democratic and environmental awareness through musical expression, the visual arts, the story and the symbolic game.

The vacant Haus Bräutigam in rural Thuringia (Germany) tells stories of the past, while asking questions about the future. The house becomes a Learning Space and its transformation is the curriculum: sustainable, inviting, uplifting, and as a common good. Students and academics collaborate with local actors, communities and craftsmen in transdisciplinary and integrated education formats, thus creating new urban-rural linkages and a place of belonging.

We save waste from liquidation and use it to provide creative education for kids and adults.
WE UPCYCLE
We extend the life of waste products

Do you want to know how can you enjoy and learn though subjects like math, construction, mining, welding etc.? Well come to our future school yard where we will have a classroom near a water fountain and lots of greens whose color will relax and calm students down while they smell some beautiful flowers and learn things needed for their future. After the though work they will able to relax, chat and make new friends or loves on the banks in the park under the shade of beautiful trees.

Kafkárna is an experimental interdisciplinary platform, a laboratory for artistic research and education in Prague. The programme is oriented towards art in connection with ecological topics, and it hosts symposia, workshops, courses, exhibitions and lecture series, among others. All events take place in the premises of a hundred-year-old sculpture studio with a large magical garden. Professionals and artists as well as the public are involved, with a strong emphasis on various communities.

The INSECT Summercamp 2022 is the pilot project for an annual gathering of practitioners, students, and researchers to investigate the transition from human-centered design to life-centered design and lifestyles. In 2022 we designed and manufactured a facade installation to explore "designing-for" insects and other organisms in an urban setting, and investigated embodied and co-creative ways to "being-with" them in the countryside.

PROTOTÝPCI provides educational events for children, teachers and parents to develop entrepreneurship, creativity and digital competences. Encourages children to be creative and active in their communities and environments, to strengthen their entrepreneurial competences and to motivate them to become entrepreneurs in creative professions. Encourages teachers and parents to be able to foster children's creativity, based on the children's ideas, not on an adult's instructions.

Flourish! is a learning journey for young adults who are suffering from anxiety and grief because of the climate emergency. Flourish! offers a regenerative approach, and supports participants in building their inner resilience, as well as the resilience of their communities and ecosystems to the climate and biodiversity crises. Its success rests on fostering a sense of belonging to a transnational learning, caring and doing community, engaged in a deep social and ecological transformation.