NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

"RC Metro Citizens in Transition" is the project for the “Metropolitan Agenda for Sustainable Development” (AMSvS) of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria (RC). The project was born with an agreement with italian Ministry of the Environment (ex MATTM) and the Metropolitan Council of RC (2019). The project aimed to create a positive impact on the community and facilitate social innovation processes for the co-design and participatory regeneration of places.

This program united Swedish & Italian students to collaborate on four Tuscan projects. We reconsidered our relationship with nature through a uniquely designed 'nature-reconnecting' experience using hands-on learning, farming, cooking, seminars, and real-life assignments. We explored how life-centred design practices such as biomimicry (nature-inspired) and nature-based entrepreneurship can create sustainability and resilience in food production, climate change, knowledge & connect communities.

Planet A - Digital community for and by youth with ADHD. Planet A is an app that makes it possible to understand and master your ADHD through a community. This new network consists of emerging content that is generated by its users. The content exists in a digital uplifting and positive environment that motivates learning about ADHD. The solution is designed to be accessible no matter where or when the user is in the need of an uplift on the journey of ADHD.

Dusts Catcher Kits are an experimental deployable and fully-recyclable learning instrument that are designed to visually inform communities what kind of dusts, if any, is dominant in the air we breathe. Dusts Institute proposes dusts collecting workshops employing Dusts Catcher Kit; outdoor educational gathering to collect, analyse and sensitise toward invisible air-borne dusts in the air we breathe with the aim to raise awareness about particulate matter and empower local communities.

La Provvidenza, a district of Caltanissetta in Sicily, has been the victim for decades of a social, cultural and environmental paradox: being considered the cerebral periphery of the city despite being in its historic center, adjacent to the central square. The smalland beautiful community that survived depopulation is strong, multi-ethnic and ready to face change: Provide for Providence is an idea of the future, a real resource and a model for the advancement of European cultural identity.

The housing typology of the 1960s differs from the needs of contemporary living, a situation that renders the dwellings obsolete. This situation is detrimental to child development and the quality of life of older adults. The U.S. Solar Decathlon interdisciplinary team, along with the student community, San Pablo District authorities and neighbors, have worked together to develop and implement sustainable initiatives that improve housing comfort and health.

So many of the skills that we need to live a sustainable life already exist, we just need to learn from each other, and the generations before us. Common Knowledge is a new kind of place for learning, a place that celebrates and shares practical skills to support people to live a truly sustainable life - skills like building, making, mending and growing. By learning these together, across generations and perspectives, we can become more confident, capable and connected as communities.

The Japanese knotweed is a fast-growing plant which in Europe is known for its invasive and intrusive characteristics. What many do not know is that this species has a multitude of positive attributes ranging from its delicious taste and medicinal properties to its potential for being the base of biomaterials. The Japanese Knotweed Festival investigates how, in collaboration with various creators, we can contribute to a way of living together in harmony with this contested plant.

Based on NATURE and ARCHITECTURE, SCHOOLYARDS project, drived by TREES_Ecosistemas, accompanies RENATURALIZATION processes through Participative Projects of Innovation and Pedagogical Transformation to RECONNECT with NATURE.
Developed in collaboration with the entire educational community, PUPILS become the main ACTORS of the whole process.
Projects to promote DIVERSITY and BIODIVERSITY in Educational Centers with an eye on the SDGs, thus turning them into true LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS

Is it a form to present the city hall of Freixo de Espada à Cinta, and the many iniciatives that it promotes to increase the landscape and the population.