NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

I propose giving power plants back to nature. The power plant Monceau-sur-Sambre in Charleroi, Belgium. Its design is breathtaking. The result of this transformation will be an academic institution that will serve as a European botanical research centre that will help on preserving Europe's treasure, nature. This institution will help countries dealing with a major problem, barren lands. Nature will have invaded this retired oxygen-killing machine, invaded it with plants, flowers, and kids.

It is a remote control toy car building kit for children that replaces the need to buy several toy cars since the car can be built again and again. It can be used to build cars out of different food packages that would otherwise be thrown away. If a child builds the body of a car out of a used package, it provokes them to wash it and later recycle it.

With this project, a small artificial lake would be built. All interested inhabitants, but above the youngs, would be visiting it, in order to spend their free time in nature and learn the basics of sport fishing. The fishing society would also animate children with special needs, as well as disabled persons, who could also participate in these activities. In this way, young people would get away from computers and phones and get to know the benefits of nature.

The idea for the project called MoReCCU was born from the need to maximize resource efficiency. UP Catalyst reprocesses CO2 to produce carbon nanomaterials and graphite, using the electrolysis method with molten salt as an electrolyte. Renowned experts from the industry and academia joined forces to develop a revolutionary molten salt regeneration technology based on circular economy principles, significantly reducing waste and increasing the reuse of carbonate salt by up to 100 times.

„Farmfluencers" are farmers that practise regenerative and sustainable agriculture. The project aims to establish an inspiring audiovisual storytelling of their work, bridge the gap between farmers and citizens, and encourage both to take responsibility for their land. This growing network of „Farmfluencers“ supports farmers to break unknown ground together. By increasing attention to their work, the project fosters a growing number of community-based agriculture in urban areas.

With Planterial® no tree will ever again be felled for particleboards. This is our promise and our idea which we want to realise. Our particleboards are made out of fast growing biomass from agriculture byproducts and a self developed organic binder which make our products biodegradable, easy to recycle and CO2-negative.

The proposed project is to repurpose an unused military hospital brownfield in Josefov, a city in the Czech Republic, into an Integrative Hub focused on environmental and cultural associations and values. The hub will include a reuse center for waste management, an art workplace for art forms using waste and upcycling, and spaces for educational stays and workshops. The project aims to connect current tourism centers in Josefov and is expected to connect nature and history in a new way.

Are we becoming the product of exhaustive labour sustaining life itself? What if we were to create jobs=worlds that are explorative and healing towards us and our environment? My project aims to explore the means of developing new environmental systems.

Have you ever felt like a complete tourist at a foreign country? Or wished you could get more out of your travels if you just had a bigger budget? Tallinn Granted is an app that helps people find unique and genuine experiences for affordable prices. Tallinn Granted brings out the local hidden gems that visitors can enjoy for a very small fee, or better yet - completely free. Anyone has a chance to be a part of Tallinn.

The symbiotic urban movement tackles two of the largest societal challenges at the moment; the housing crisis and the need for an energy-neutral built environment. The concept aims at renovating the existing housing stock while also densifying with the use of bio-based modular top-up extensions. By applying the concept, the existing building can live on for another lifetime as an energy-neutral building where existing and new residents can live happily together.