NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The project tends to apply the "slow food movement" in city planning and persistently seeks to propose possible resilient scenarios that promote environmental justice, soft mobility, sustainable design, heritage and social integration. Multi-scalar research that is based on multiple drivers of socio-economic and socio-political factors, is crucial in order to develop a generic design framework for a singular layered strategy that will follow the initial conceptual ambitions.

Building on a project example of St Brendan’s Community School, located in a decarbonising peatland in Ireland, we have developed a social value based methodology for conservation and retrofit of 20th century school buildings. The school is an internationally recognised exemplar of modern architecture. It suffers from material degradation, environmental issues and reliance on carbon technologies. Our research is exemplary for the conservation of social ideals and built fabric of the 20th century

Karev Skills Creation promotes the initiative to provide chances for employability for unskilled or low-skilled people with fewer opportunities (economical, social, geographical, physical, age etc.) by developing a renovation plan for an old portable metal roofing structure and its relocation in the school yard to create a self-sustainable facility - free-of-charge VET centre for the referred groups by our staff. Refurbishment will be carried out by school students, using eco-friendly materials.

HalloSophia is an initiative born out of EUvsVirus that provides affordable expert advice to small businesses through microadvisory packages. We recognize that it is difficult for small businesses to understand what their next steps are before they dare to talk to an advisor. BusinessAssistant is a pre-trained GPT-3 model enriched with additional information from HalloSophia expert offers, that helps users structure their problems and connect with the right experts in low-cost video sessions.

Through this project, we strive to set an example which accentuates responsible behavior towards nature, the importance of care for the environment and preservation of natural resources and nurturing positive attitude towards nature and its preservation in an appropriate manner, following children's interests. With these projects, we raise awareness about the importance of composting and sustainability of life in an urban area among the youngest residents of our municipality and beyond.

Wood be better is a 2-year research project in which more than 120 children and young people from the Tulln area (Lower Austria), together with scientists and technicians were able to learn about various issues in the field of wood research and wood technology in a playful and age-appropriate way, in order not only to understand and use wood as a material, but also to gain impulses for future training and career paths in the wood research and industry.

The multi-year project is aimed at researching how Slovak theatre (especially as regards its themes and knowledge concerning the activities and operation of theatres) relates to the tendencies in environmental sustainability as well as the approaches in fine arts that address the interaction between humans and nature. In the project, we will focus on two main areas: the ecological and environmental themes in Slovak theatre and the broad possibilities of ecological thinking in theatre practice.

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Romanias Apuseni Mountains offer a unique natural landscape, that hosts very old villages, where live and tradition still survive. The "LONG AGO" camp for children, situated in this special cultural surrounding, connects kids from all kind of backgrounds to the few people living in these areas. Besides creating a beautiful bond between the generations, our activities aim to also transmit the archaic handcrafts and the ecological values of rural life to the future generations.

The boy who harness the wind is a story that we wanted to bring to our rural school. A story full of values and similar situations with our students. The story is very up to date, and we have been working about poverty, critical thinking, renewable energies, sustainability and many other ideas that appear in the novel. We are linking the story with some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015.