NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Many forms of Urban Farming aim to promote socialization and learning through the production of food in urban or peri-urban areas. However, many aspects of urban life are incompatible with the commitment and attention required by the cultivation of a crop field. Geosmin is a pilot project that will show how technology, a farming robot with internet connection and a powerful software, can give urban people a chance to fit a piece of nature in their daily lives.

“Transformative Perspectives of Spaces In-Between” is an initiative that focuses on education and learning and presents a pedagogical methodology that enables students to explore between science and art, individual and collective, thus realizing that a New European Bauhaus triangle of values -sustainability, inclusion and experience- shapes their design strategies for transformation of spaces. The initiative realizes through the course of "Interior Architecture" at the University of Prishtina.

HolyShit aims to educate citizens about the value of their pee and poop. The food that we eat and digest contains valuable nutrients which are essential in agriculture: phosphorus and nitrogen. HolyShit conveys this message in a playful card game. Furthermore, HolyShit develops public dry toilets in order to collect and compost citizens’ digested food and the valuable nutrients it contains. Let’s put the poop back into the loop!

"Unleash your child's creativity with Echorroes – a playful non-verbal interactive music experience that transforms children’s everyday space into a dream-like playground. Kids explore contemporary music principles through playful interactive sound games, becoming the creators of their own musical ecosystem. Join the fun with minimal adult intervention!"

Our organization rescue and transforms large quantities of urban waste into massive art installations. Beside the art installations we have side activities based on non-formal education methods and upcycling. The main idea of the project is to activate citizens toward environmental protection and raise awareness about climate change, sustainable development, and responsible consumption.

Through the Carousel of Careers project we want to give deaf children the opportunity to dream about what they want to be when they grow up. We want the children to meet their heroes from all walks of life - doctors, teachers, firemen, policemen, photographers, actors and so on, and to get to know what their jobs are. Learning about the professions, the knowledge and skills they need, will boost their motivation for success. Supporting them to build a world where Deaf Kids Can Do Anything!

Imagine a world where plastic, wood and metal are no longer used, and with the help of children and young people, they become works of art playing music, emitting light or moving through cities on wonderfully decorated old bicycles.
In essence, all those materials that usually appear in landfills or recycling plants can be used for creation.
My idea about a simple and aesthetic way to turn plastic, metal and wood waste into attractive works of art.

Digital revolutions and how it can bring about positive changes in European countries by improving efficiency and connectivity in various industries ie; healthcare, transportation and energy. Also in improving access access and information as well as promoting the participation of people in democracy through the use of online voting and other digital tools.

"Germinar um banco de sementes" [GBS] aims to create a seed bank from school space, involving the local community. Our goals are to educate for active citizenship, make society more aware of its natural heritage, and use dematerialization mechanisms (collaborative economy and sustainable consumption) to preserve natural genetic diversity.
The project is structured in several activities, expanding from schools to educators and the local community or national level through free seed sharing.

By consolidating with compatible regeneration, it educates by restoring the organization of relations to the producers' products, opened by integrating the continuation of artistic centers of resonance, it reactivates by revitalizing it by revitalizing it by correlating by linking by coordinating. The innovation of space imagination in the products of manufacturers produced with a lack of imagination of existence, introduces the idea of adapting other products to the space.