NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The B!G Idea is a free creative thinking programme being delivered to Irish students aged 15 to 19, supported by partners and mentors. Creativity is a vital future skill, and this programme inspires youth to become empathetic innovators, leaders and trailblazers to positively impact society. Learning problem-solving, critical thinking, resilience and empathy, they create solutions to tackle issues such as climate change, displaced people, hidden poverty, diversity & inclusion, and mental health.

Vera Icon C / O is located in a historic farmhouse in the beautiful Finnish countryside, surrounded by forests, fields and a river. Providing a space for multidisciplinary wellness activities, we strives to help people find a connection between mind, body and nature.

We go crazy about Camellias not only because of their aesthetic beauty and history but also because they were able to boost engagement and participation of a community and to transform abandoned soils into new areas of an Excellence Camellia Garden in Tuscany. The project started in 2020 and had a multi-sectoral, bottom-up approach in order to bring people closer to nature, regardless of their age, interests, and groups with a focus on young people, inclusion and protection of landscape.

De Verwondering is the culmination of biophilic design, regenerative building methods and biodiverse landscaping. Better learning and more awareness of biodiversity through biobased architecture

The project intends to foster the overcoming of personal, cultural and social vulnerabilities of minors and their families through the co-creation of an open school model. For this purpose it adopts a circular intervention strategy that moves down from the national level to the local contexts. The partners established a network of 13 school-based educational presidia, designed as immersive and inclusive physical places open to the entire community also during extracurricular hours: the STEM*Labs

Land&Hand programs are implemented by KETTER&Co. This collective of artists, designers and researchers take vocational students from around the Netherlands into collaborations with entrepreneurs, landscape organisations, craftsmen and policymakers. The projects connect students to their environment, local materials and crafts by using methods from art and design education that focus on activating different senses. Students learn about sustainability, circularity and creativity, while the diverse collaborations help create local networks.

An upcoming event organized by EYP Albania, Serenatë 2023 seeks to give its participants the chance to steep in the culture of Korça, one of Albania's most beautiful locales. Over the course of a week, youth from all around Europe will look at our world through the lens of heritage and learn as much from it as possible in order to, through debate and a democratic process that simulates the real-world European Parliament, provide solutions for the major issues European society is faced with.

International design workshops as a regular monthly component of the design education programme. The aim is to engage lecturers and communication design experts from around the world to work and exchange intellectually and creatively with students and institutions working with the university. Students from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia learn together and use different methods of design problem-solving. The EU values diffuse directly by working together.

The purpose of this initiative is to provide the children in Albania with a relaxing and joyfull tool with which they could learn and take conscious about their body and health, by not filling their mind with information that he/she will not be able to use and will forget very quickly or that will burden the child even more emotionally and mentally, but by translating and dublicating an excisting animated film that had been very famous back in '90.

The Iberian Bamboo Association is a community of bamboo enthusiasts, students and professionals in the Iberian Peninsula. Our goal is to work collectively to promote bamboo as an alternative sustainable material to mitigate climate change.
By establishing this bamboo hub in Europe we are able to provide knowledge exchange, research support and training with bamboo. We also enable new industry applications and global partnerships towards a more sustainable future.