Prizes: All applications

Renaturalization of the River Somes is a contemporary example of river regeneration efforts that reimagine the role of the river as it flows through the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, for over 15 kilometres. This project incorporates urban and ecological strategies to extend the river's edge, allowing it to merge with the urban fabric. As a result, it becomes the city's primary axis for mobility, activates ecological processes, and serves as a focal point for community engagement.

Plantea en Verde (@planteaenverde) is a project that reconnects people with nature through urban gardening and plant care. By offering both free and paid educational content, based on science and adapted to everyday life, it provides tools to transform balconies, terraces, and homes into thriving ecosystems. This approach promotes urban biodiversity and nature conservation in domestic spaces, contributing to greener, more resilient, and sustainable cities where people and nature coexist.

Arts Lab 5.0 brought together 12 international volunteers and 1,700+ participants to rethink culture, heritage, and identity. Through four alternative museums, we turned forgotten stories into interactive experiences, combining art, non-formal education, and community engagement. The project connected people across generations, created sustainable cultural spaces, and empowered young people to become leaders in their communities through creativity.

The Dauerwald Bärenthoren Foundation preserves with the management the Continuous Pine Forests, an important heritage of German forestry history, developed by Prof. Dr. A. Möller and F. von Kalitsch as a sustainable alternative to clear-cutting. To advance its heartfelt project, the foundation acquired Kalitsch Manor, which now serves as an inclusive Environmental Education Center. It is open to all and connects generations to make the regional natural heritage visible and lasting for everyone. 

Echoing the ideals of the New European Bauhaus, the Hypha_etc camp building seeks to pioneer an innovative new typology – a camp offering a pedagogical programme for artists, scientific researchers and educators – a platform for exchange and debate. The lightweight timber building both reflects and grows out of its rural context, offering accommodation and learning spaces, as well as serving as a tool for teaching sustainable building ecologies.

The project proposal is aimed at promoting equal opportunities for people with disabilities, who in their daily lives constantly face discrimination and a disadvantageous position in relation to other participants in society. Project activities are designed with the aim of ensuring conditions and opportunities for the inclusion of as many people with disabilities as possible in cultural activities.

Byggåterbruket is inagurated, The city of Umeå has in collaboration with local companies opened a market hub for reused construction material. The companies shall identify residual and dismantled material, deliver it to the Market Hub where it will be sold to new customers. The collaboration shall also share insights and knolwdge, build capacity togehter. Develop circular processes and pilots

Our mission is to rethink traditional furniture, modernise it and return it to the cycle of use as customised designer objects. We have redesigned an old wooden cabinet to create modern home-office furniture. This approach, applied on a larger scale, offers numerous benefits: it supports generational dialogue, preserves local culture and traditions, and employs artisans and designers. Furthermore, it creates chances for young creatives to develop a sustainable, shared and individualised future.

FL is an investment group immersed in generating a strong corporate brand. The company owns several workspace buildings it leases across multiple locations. Unifying the character is key to strengthening the FL identity. This office is located in Berlin, Germany. The project created spaces that foster a healthier working environment, adapted to the evolving needs of the corporate world. Achieving flexible and sustainable offices that align with the FL's standards for the post-pandemic era.

The original garden city concept, where private gardens connect to a central green space, has largely disappeared in this neighbourhood. Many gardens turned into garages or enclosed extensions, disrupting connections between homes and neighbours. This project revitalizes the inner area, transforming the back into a second front while enhancing home quality and flexibility. By focusing on participation and material reuse, social and societal concerns are identified and integrated into the project