NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The Marathon is a series of activities and workshops with open calls for youngsters in the creative and social fields. The aim is to come up with prototypes of innovative and practical ideas that could be the impetus for developing innovation and a circular economy in Kosovo. The Marathon engages and empowers young and creative professionals/students. The targeted category of youngsters to participate in the Marathon are those who want to join the mission of eliminating plastic pollution.

A good vibe makes us think to emotions but also to the vibration phenomenon of physics. It refers to our knowledge and perception, and to our ability of empathize and resonate together to build a sustainable future.
At the boundary between science and art, Good Vibes is the project for inclusive STEM education through creative expression. We design hands-on learning resources, related to creative STEM, accessible for disadvantaged groups. Co-design is at the heart of the initiative.

We establish a school where all people involved feel comfortable and can develop. All people learn to actively participate in the world and to shape it for the future. The Marille is to open its doors as a state-recognized all-day school in Berlin at the start of the 2023/24 school year. It is a model school for sustainable education. The school will initially offer space for 30 first-graders and will be expanded into an inclusive community school with 13 years of learning.

Super Serios is a design research initiative aiming to develop a methodology of play in urban studies. Research-based art-games are spaces for knowledge distribution and creation. The event is playing, action is content. Players bring their experiences and opinions, in a performative exploration of urban topics. Learning and meaning creation are collaborative, through an aesthetic of participation. Super Serios follows an artistic research approach with an implicit pedagogical dimension.

CREATIVE LIVING PLACES is a cultural-led, place and people-centered initiative aimed to regenerate the Fontanelle district, a suburb of public housing, located in a historical Italian village. The project deals with arts, tactical urbanism, and community visioning. It aims to promote a dynamic setting (in other words, a place!) to trigger a transformative change at the local level using culture as driver of community engagement to build, physically and symbolically, a common and bright future.

In Europe the 35% of household waste consists of food waste. Led by COMPOSTER with a number of collaborators & HugeHug aims to eliminate food waste, transforming it to high quality compost by activating a transmunicipal citizens-driven circular process from schools to municipalties. To complete the loop, the compost is used to provide a nature-based solution enriching the degraded soil of Hymettus Mountain area where 11 cities meet for restoring the beautiful ecosystem of the mountain forest.

We completed a project called "Green Diplomacy," which was divided into two parts: a panel and a simulation, in response to global warming, the pervasive topic of climate change, and environmental protection. The project is structured around engaging educational material that allowed the students to improve their prior learning in both theory and application.

The project promotes the regeneration of Milan’s suburbs using field-based education with schools, universities and citizens, such as workshops that become the tool to learn how to re-imagine the city in an equitable, inclusive and sustainable way.

How We Eat in Leipzig is an immersive learning experience to engage a local community to imagine an inclusive regenerative food future together. Through nature based learning and eating at the same table over the course of five workshops during one year, the community builds a sense of belonging to Leipzig and to each other through the food they eat, grown in their surrounding environment.

The idea is to develop an app that guides to accessible routes and allows the rental of innovative electric aids, promoting the independence of people with mobility difficulties. The goal is to restore, in a sustainable way, the freedom of movement in art cities hampered by countless architectural barriers. Thanks to the scalability of the project, environmental pollution could be reduced globally. The social impact is given by the collaboration of citizens, institutions, businesses and users.