NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The Trash Traveler & Team aim to raise awareness about environmental issues with fun, creativity and the extraordinary since 2019. A 58 day hiking adventure along the entire coast of Portugal by the founder Andreas Noe connected a community. A year later, 1.1 million cigarette butts were collected within 2 months. These and further projects brought 2000 people and 100 NGOs on the ground together to raise awareness complemented by Ukulele awareness songs, trash art pieces and documentaries.

"Agriculture 4.0": creating educational workshops within the rural field, by using digital tools such as the hydroponic technology, i.e. a method of growing plants in water rich in mineral nutrients instead of soil

“One trop of love has more value than an ocean full of intellect” Blaise Pascal
The aim of this project is the development of emotional intelligence of children with learning difficulties through aesthetic education (painting, theater playing, dancing). As emotional intelligence is seen as very important for a better learning success and a positive self-image.

REFRAMING A BOSNIAN DELIGHT: Coffee and Co-creation
Bringing together creative professionals, individuals, academics and representatives of associations, networks, groupings and civic society in Bosnia and Herzegovina, its diaspora and friends in the EU and the US; Identifying and strengthening synergies for action to advance the professionalism and quality in built environment and society focused on collaborative and sustainable methods and measures locally and internationally.

In the course 'Plastic Soup? Close the Loop', students from various study programs
are in charge to halt plastic pollution together. In an active and hybrid learning environment,
transdisciplinary teams design in iterations sustainable solutions for the plastics sector, which they
test, evaluate and communicate with the stakeholders. The content is important, but its
application in the context is key. This leads to problem-solving skilled students with
an inclusive way of thinking.

Sueño Mediterráneo Nuestro Patio is a participatory project of the Educational Community of CEIP Mar Mediterráneo for the renaturalisation of its playground, turning it into a natural, co-educational, inclusive and learning space.
It is a co-creation project to create a sustainable school, where students are agents of change, promoting biodiversity through a physical transformation of the space, and a real pedagogical transformation through active methodologies and learning through nature.

The Innovation Academy initiative, was intended to implement an integrated intervention to stimulate young people in utilizing their entrepreneurial skills by making available the physical infrastructure to start a business and the necessary assistance to be consolidated in the market. The main goal of the project is to develop, test and implement a supportive environment for young people with entrepreneurial ideas.

In Europe, digital revolution has had a significant impact on evonomies, transforming traditional industries and reating new ones as well as changing tye way people interact and access information.

Zuid.Boijmans is a branch of Museum Boijmans in the Hillevliet district of Rotterdam Zuid. This district with 200,000 inhabitants has many social and economic problems. And although it has a rich and diverse cultural life, no cultural institutions are located here. In Zuid.Boijmans, we discuss what can be learned from Zuid and share knowledge with residents of the district. Everyone is welcome. Residents, students and talented makers come together, organise activities and learn from each other.

A project developed within the framework of the Master in Eco-Social Design and born from the common intentions and collaboration between the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Faculty of Design and Art), the social cooperative OfficineVispa with the support of the Office for Family, Women, Youth and Social Promotion of the Municipality of Bozen-Bolzano. The student teams collaborated with OfficineVispa, other local actors and citizens o develop convivial and social-ecological projects