Prizes: All applications

The New European Bauhaus offers a unique opportunity to teach future designers values that can genuinely transform the way we shape the world. Inspired by this vision, the teachers leading the project created NEB LEARNING, a methodology that integrates NEB values into higher technical education.We implemented it between 2022 and 2025, involving 206 students, 14 experts and 5 organisations, working on real-world challenges through co‑creation and demonstrating that is transformative and scalable

The Brno Coat is a design project exploring how fashion can reconnect beauty, sustainability, and European craft traditions. Inspired by the functionalist architecture of Bohuslav Fuchs in Brno, the coat reinterprets the principle “form follows function” for today’s ecological challenges. Made from 99% biodegradable materials, including Portuguese wool from the Serra da Estrela and crafted in Brno, it proposes clothing that respects material origins, craftsmanship, and the full life cycle.

The B3 is a public third place developed by the Province of Liège on the site of a former abandoned hospital known as Bavière, in Liège. Housed in a sustainable, open and light-filled building, it brings together a Resource Centre, a Business Incubator and an Exploratory of Possibilities dedicated to artistic and digital creation. Culture, knowledge, innovation and creativity come together here in a space accessible to all, where people can learn, experiment, create and imagine possible futures.

FishArt piloted a participatory process to transform the Fishermen’s Harbour in Anzio, Italy, into an art&science community hub via co-creative events, for ocean literacy, public space care and sustainability. FishArt functioned as a living lab, including workshops, transect walks with fishermen, community plogging with schools, a participatory art vibrant FishArt with international artists, associations, migrants, seagoing people, businesses, scientists and institutions.

ECCO is a participatory project that brought together schools, local health services, civil protection, municipalities, volunteers and civil society in small towns and rural areas to co-design practical crisis-preparedness routines. Through three sector workshops, participants turned COVID-19 lessons into ready-to-use measures for clearer communication, fair access to services, and better local coordination when the next emergency hits.

The Hub-Human Bits is where people and digital technologies meet. Based in a 1925 renovated building in the heart of Mestre, The HuB stands as a bottom-up, privately led publicly open, initiative to foster open access to digital and to hybridate culture and innovation. At the HuB you can: learn how to use softwares and tools, participate in creative workshops and cultural initiatives as part of the free public programme, collaborate and work in the co-space, experiment and produce at the fablab.

Our project turns recycling into a rewarding experience. Through gamified recycling stations, people can bring their post-consumption waste and exchange it for circular products, discounts, and exclusive benefits. By combining sustainability, technology, and incentives, we make it easier and more exciting for communities to participate in the circular economy and reduce waste.

Jardins do Bombarda is a Cultural and Community Center created in 2024 in the space of a former psychiatric hospital in Lisbon, the Miguel Bombarda Hospital. The center was created by Largo cooperative in an outdoor area using placemaking methodology and is based in a sociocratic governance, gathering collective and individual members in an ecosystem that works with the community through cultural and social activities, following a model of economic and environmental sustainability.

The Shandon Integrated Urban Strategy (IUS) is Cork City Council’s co created framework enabling NEB aligned transformation in a historic neighbourhood. Through new governance structures, inclusive participation, community capacity building, and integrated planning, the IUS has already produced its flagship next step: the Shandon Exchange, a €7m adaptive reuse enterprise and community hub currently in development (planning approved; delivery scheduled 2026–2028).

The project "Sky Blue Insulation" is the first experimental development in Austria of an insulation material made of recycled cotton, mainly jeans, with the aim to replace mineral wool, which is critical to health, energy-intensive in production and difficult to dispose of, with a product made of renewable raw materials that is harmless from a building biology point of view. The vision is to replace mineral wool as façade insulation, especially in multi-storey timber construction.