NEB Prizes 2024: All Applications

"Rea: Health & Wellbeing" is an innovative mobile app from Kosovo designed to improve public health through environmental awareness. The app provides real-time air quality data in Kosovo, health tips tailored to the users health, and engaging sleep stories in the Albanian language. The app also offers discounts on eco-friendly products and services, encouraging users to make greener choices, supporting environmentally responsible businesses, and contributing to a more sustainable economy.

This project represents an initiative to set up a new capacity to enhance the participation from civil society in the transition towards a sustainable, fair, just and inclusive society. The idea is to develop a collective capacity to be framed on the new mission’s strategy that is currently being shaped in Europe to support the transition towards a circular society in view of Agenda 2030 global sustainability objectives, the Green Deal and New European Bauhaus.

Youth events against the current is an event that takes place in an unusual place for the city - the bed of the river Yantra. For three days, young people have the opportunity to touch good music, various artistic projects, discussions. The aim of the event is to create a strong youth community in the city, to develop the potential of a non-standard and unused place in the city center and turn it into a youth zone initiated, developed and managed by young people for the needs of young people

The Asertos programme has been developed by Arquitectura Sin Fronteras España and Quatorze, with the certainty that the solution to urban vulnerability lies in the communities. Certain areas of our territories accumulate social, economic and residential problems, which represents a public health problem. To tackle this, we abandon the deficit approach and focus on discovering, connecting and mobilising the strengths of communities in order to ensure adequate housing and quality common spaces.

We encourage designers to embrace more conscientious urban decorating with PEEL. It is a 65% plant based upholstery material, upcycling waste from chestnut harvest, associated with an important forest resource to rural population in Portugal. Real transition towards sustainability, must provide also performance, reliability and aesthetics. With PEEL we offer a fully tested bioproduct, complying with the highest upholstery standards, in 8 charming colours and readily available from stock.

The Path of the Barene represents the naturalistic dimension of the Lazzaretti Veneziani Ecomuseum, located on Lazzaretto Nuovo Island, in the heart of the Venice Lagoon. The Path of Barene project has given new meaning to a path walked in the past for military purposes, that is now an immersive contemplative experience of nature, along the lively rumble of Venice, and an activator of environmental sensitivity and scientific curiosity for citizens and visitors of all ages.

Architecture exhibitions are designed for children to learn about the modernism of Siauliai and Kaunas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here, children can experience live by climbing, touching, exploring, opening windows, and doors to see fragments of history. And to play, play, play!- build roads, manage the funicular wagons, plant trees, play in little modern houses. And most important, to regain a sense of belonging and restore the connection with the local historical heritage by playing.

The Giants' Field is a vibrant fusion of art and nature in Salento, Italy. Born from the aftermath of the Xylella epidemic, this participative land art initiative is a testament to resilience. A public space where creativity blossoms, forging connections between people and their environment. The Giants' Field is an ongoing journey of reconnection, renewal, and resilience, showcasing the transformative power of art and community collaboration amid environmental challenges.

Kajža was created as a platform for connection, education, knowledge exchange and support for people interested in or expertly working in the field of adaptive reuse, architectural renovation and sustainable building. It explores potentials for living in rural or remote environments today, as well as possibilities of adaptive reuse in cities. It presents quality projects from across Europe, offers one-on-one advice, produces online learning tools and live talks, workshops and discussions.

The project aim is to provide a space for elderly people living in the Meliana area. The building is developed around an interior courtyard, where all the different functional spaces are visually related while providing environmental quality to the users. The construction system is based on a prefabricated wooden structure and thick walls where the rice straw insulation is housed, previously dehumidified and compacted. The atmosphere created is unique for the needs of the users and their well-be