NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

ReGeneration in Reșița is a project dedicated to accomplishing societal cohesion through participatory urbanism and workshops dedicated to climate mitigation best practices. The area proposed for intervention is known for its Roma community, in serious risk of poverty and who faces the issue of school abandonment. To change the destiny of the children residing there and making education more appealing, the local education unit's square will be transformed and regenerated for the whole community

Aedicula is a digital participatory magazine covering cultural topics of tradition and current affairs.
It features gamification and augmented reality elements that encourage students to visit local GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archivers, Museums) cultural venues, stimulating them to rediscover their sense of belonging.

As natural stone waste grows, kids’ illiteracy increases. Every year, tones of natural stone rarities, mainly from the luxurious market industries, estimated in more than one fifth,are lost in the chain of the Circular Economy. By another hand, at our schools, kids are losing the sensitive contact with the ground. We believe teaching must be innovative, dynamic, and creative. So, our goal it’s make these rarities to be touched and kept alive, in the Circular Economy,in unique geo-didatic panels

Lifestyle Medicine for Everyone (LM4everyone): Recover and Inspire
The initiative to create a Lifestyle Medicine program (Programme) has been in line with education tradition at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU), based on research of scientifically based evidence about healing power of nature and its resources, for prevention of diseases and regaining health.

Make cool your school is an activity in which high school students are involved in an architectural project of their own educational centres, accompanied by architecture students and professors from the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT). In five years, more than 800 students and 50 centres have designed spaces for the topics: ‘better together’, ‘working together’, ‘think in/is change’, ‘new spaces 4 new learning’ and ‘old spaces/new normality’.

Every individual is valuable and contributes. Sharing reduces sadness and increases joy. Our program includes young people with all their individualities and talents. We believe that only through education and solidarity can we create a better society and a sustainable future. By bringing together professionals, artists and teachers in the realization of an integrative teaching model, we create a place where everyone wins and no one loses. Join us too. Find out why it's important that everyone h

The Anatomy of Islands Initiative has been carried out for 10 years on the Croatian islands with the aim of forming international platform for island research and development as an active participant in the affirmation of life on the islands. Our main activities include the organization of symposiums and workshops, in close cooperation with island communities, focusing on themes involving island futures and development of island communities, and implementing the ideas through local projects.

Architecture facing the global events we are witnessing cannot remain neutral. Climate change, pollution, gentrification, reprivatization, residents’ rights, or homelessness should be architecture’s concerns. The Architecture Snob magazine emerged out of a need to discuss modern architecture and reality from diverse, critical perspectives. The purpose of the magazine is to promote best practices and role models and to educate society about the importance of architecture in life.

VISKAĻI is a social innovation platform for creators of future. We co-design better quality of life and create tools for societal development, based on sustainability, inclusion, placemaking and non-formal education. Inspired by the Bauhaus movement, based on the New European Bauhaus values, VISKAĻI provides 15 000 sq.m. of space and holds nurturing framework for countless social innovation forms in the former faculty of Aeronautics, Riga, Latvia.

Cultural and artistic project created to value the emotional aspect of fashion and recover antique and vintage textile pieces, from family closets, actualize them and create photographic documentation of the stories that belong to them. The premises of the development are creating a network like users and people interested in the transmission of experience, knowledge, and artisanal: cultural and artistic dissemination creating an expansive form of teaching, awakening involvement.