NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

`Take a Breath of Nature!` is an organic place in our educational centre in rural area of Bicacel village, Lazareni Commune, Bihor where we want to arrange a beautiful artistic landscape with local medicinal plants, flowers, shrubs and other natural wide number of elements that have come together to create amazing shapes and features. We want to create a dream place where people can enjoy nature, near forest and get in touch with core forgotten feelings.

MATERIA is a community process on the reuse of plastics, led by the communal coworking space of Ruvo di Puglia, La Capagrossa. All the citizens (administration, schools,shops,entrepreneurs,etc.) are involved in the collection of the plastic wastes that are used in free laboratories dedicated to children and adults. Over the years,La Capagrossa became a territorial reference for training,research and small prototyping in the context of 3d making and sustainable design.

Youth social engagement (formed by students and teachers of the Nikšić School of Economics and Hospitality) implemented the "Green Challenge for All" project, which aims to improve and advance project and field teaching, student and teacher competencies, as well as awareness of the rational use of natural resources.

Type is a platform for design in the built environment. Our mission to share knowledge, increase accessibility, and support new insights in the fields of architecture, landscape, urban design, and planning in Ireland. These goals are supported through our online library. This digital repository is open to all, with each membership sustainably financing future projects, allowing for a truly long-term contribution to building a sense of place and belonging to the wider built environment.

A network of innovative bird observatories are placed around the the Klisova Lagoon, linking nature with urban life, and forming new landmarks to mark the need for its protection.Their design, the result of a multidisciplinary and paricipatory approach, incorporates elements of innovation on sustainability aspects, structural system and architectural expression, offering a new educational paradigm for the development of future innovative projects in sensitive ecosystems worldwide.

We help make the NEB global and intercultural with multinlingual know-how sharing podcasts engaging communities in Europe and beyond our (mental and cultural) borders. Experiment others' experience through their voice, sounds and differences, and wider the size of the worlds you belong to.
The green sounds of our podcasts will connect you in new ways to feel part of both local and global communities - one planet many cultures millions of experiences

JUSThood is a methodology based on participatory futures that empowers citizens to envision equitable urban places for humans and non-humans by democratizing masterplanning process.

JUSThood is a three-layered approach aimed for participatory action and learning activities consisting of JUSThood methodology for spatial equity based on participatory futures, JUSThood network with regional hubs and mentors, and JUSTHood index to measure spatial equity of urban places.

DI4all aims to improve the key competencies, skills, and learning outcomes of young people in schools by promoting quality improvement, innovation excellence at the educational level and mainstreaming digital inclusion, as well as improving the competencies of teachers and educators to promote digital inclusion and combat disinformation through education and training.

Building Back Better by a constructive mobilization of human potential. Reconstruction has enormous potential for progress. It involves locals, not just experts from an industry that’s currently responding inadequately to climate targets, energy poverty, and reliance on conventional products and methods. RECON UA brings independent expertise for guidelines and material flows of crisis areas. Efficiency with construction and demolishing waste and agricultural by-products.

The Designer’s Material Compendium is a website intended for everyone who is interested in natural materials and crafts. It is an educational project aimed at restoring knowledge about traditional materials and crafts practiced in Poland. It is addressed to all enthusiasts of ecological solutions in the low-tech design trend. It is an attempt to build a platform which accumulates the knowledge about natural materials in the context of product design, materials science, ethnology.