NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Our dream is to make Liguria a Bauhaus region and NEBland@Liguria is open to whoever wants to make this dream real.

NEBland@Liguria is a one-year mentorship program that will allow the Ligurian placemakers to learn from certified experts in an innovative way.

The best ideas will win the opportunity to be supported and improved by the mentors during all 4 events which will take place on the territory and be presented in the big final event at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Everytime you open a bottle of wine you might have a bit of Montado in your hands. Cork, and other products, are retrieved from this agro-silvo-pastoral system, of extreme importance for Mediterranean livelihood. Yet, 5000 hectares per year of Montado are lost by decreased density or coverage area. In Tertúlias do Montado we bring the specificities of this ecosystem in the overall value chain of its products and collectively define scientifically based action to halt its decline.

IMEC is traveling across Slovenia and beyond, transforming places of education for a day with accessible on-site exhibition, promoting critical thinking through creative "minds-and-hands-on" exhibits and interactive open-ended STEAM shows.Empowering local communities by providing safe environment for making mistakes and encouraging discussion. Changing the community's mind-set where mistakes are seen as shame and failure into a community that encourages mistakes as learning-for-life methodology.

In this series participatory metamorphosis land art workshops the participants shpashifted into endangered animals for coexisting compassionately. The workshops were also an apparatus to deal with eco-anxiety. The aim was to change participants’ perspectives and demonstrate the power of collaboration, by making an allegory of the collaboration of herd species. Alone they/we are nothing but, with determination we can create visible change in both the environment and in attitudes: create empathy.

The Multicultural Center we are a special space in Brno, which serves as a mean for the dissemination of different educational, artistic, cultural expressions to unite people from different backgrounds Our Center allows inter-generational exchanges and community-building for the inhabitants of our city to have a physical space to openly express themselves and celebrate their diversity in unison.

SPP is a free-spirited educational initiative about architecture, built environment and sustainable development. To educate future consumers of architecture. To foster more humane living. Founded in 2009 under the auspices of Latvian Association of Architects, SPP brings together architects who organise architecture workshops for children, students and teachers. SPP has developed its own unique approach, summarised in a methodological ‘Notebook’ and gradually incorporated into school curriculum.

The guide helps designers to develop a basic understanding of sustainability in the textile industry and to translate this knowledge into products or systems. The key points are raising awareness of sustainability, one's own responsibility as a designer, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among all stakeholders in the supply chain, substantive education on the sustainability of materials and processes, circulardesign strategies, and the creation of holistically conceived concepts.

Varagnes is an inspiring place created by Marc Seguin, a forerunner of the industrial revolution in 1860. It is situated in Annonay (France). At 75 years old, he
invented Varagnes to keep in touch with the world, to research, to create and to transmit.

Our main objective is to create a Fondation Seguin to perpetuate Varagnes' spirit and to
transform it into a place of learning and research to encourage creativity.

Ugena, a town in Toledo, in Castilla La Mancha (Spain), has used leisure and free time as a tool for equality, social transformation and social innovation, implementing spaces, times and experiences of emotional well-being in the different life groups of the municipality (childhood, families, seniors, youth...). It constitutes an instrument of learning, coexistence and social co-responsibility through leisure.
"What drives and drags the world are not machines but ideas"
(Victor Hugo)

We're reaching out to you because we want to help you make the world a better place. We know that you have lots of stuff that you don't need or use anymore, and we want to help you do something good with it. That's why we created BoxOfHope-to promote the idea of a circular economy by helping you give your unwanted stuff new life. It's simple: register on the platform and order a free pickup from our courier service. Then we'll unpack them and sell them in our shop giving all proceeds to charity.