NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

"We Are the Flood" is a creative and interdisciplinary research, training and transformation platform on the climate crisis, anthropogenic interference and ecological transition implemented by a science museum, the MUSE of Trento (Italy).
Starting from water as a symbol of the climate crisis, “We Are the Flood” wants to trigger through emotions and the universality of art a change of perspective that can reflect on a global scale to imagine desirable futures.

Customers will have a pivotal role in making the circular economy work. Their customer experience should be joyful and effortless. The Circular Experience Library offers 72 free UX design patterns to service- and ux designers and companies. This toolkit can be used to develop ideas and build prototypes for circular services fast. The aim is to accelerate the adaption of circular services by customers and lower the costs for companies and experience designers developing them

Our initiative aims at preparing students and workforce for the changes brought about by the Circular economy, we want to learn them to understand the system, embrace and plan for it in their domains of professional interest. Since there is significant skills gap we aim to support closing the skills gap between the present skills of the workforce and the future skills in demand for smooth transition toward circular economy.

The way of our functioning as individual human beings is reflected in our movements, the solutions we choose, which can teach us about ourselves and our fellow human beings. It is an intense learning and self-reflective process, which gives us the opportunity to change our habits and open up to the world in an honest way. The liberating power of improvisation contributes to creating new and productive forms of the dialogue between body and mind. These statements are our starting point.

G4A is the one multidisciplinary masterpiece in which each citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina can enjoy. Creation of unique urban Garden in 2023 in front of the space for high schools for children with disabilities will provide the platform for education, intergenerational exchange of knowledge and cooperation between children and elderly, and it is meant to be a role model for other local communities – in the meaning that green spaces can be put in functional use.

A proposal of educational game focused on the creativity of Nature. A game that
encourages to draw, think, connect concepts and ideas, enhance creativity, work
together, in connection with nature and its elements.

How can we imagine different ways of looking at and knowing about plants beyond established botanical systems? Wardian cart is a traveling research station that facilitates other ways of knowing, based on embodied views and experimental methodologies that encourage reflection and empathy toward our environment. The cart tries to re-imagine the colonial botanical artifact “Wardian case” into a tool for workshops to re-frame botanical heritage as a learning tool for a more symbiotic future.

#FoodForEarth-youth creates a network of active students composting communities in schools. #FfE builds sustainable net-zero carbon composting facility in school yard. #FfE inspires and engages the students for regeneration of the soil and climate through inclusive education, art and gardening. It rises awareness and conveys a new quality of experience being part of nature and highlights the curial importance and participation of everyone in solving problems with soils, air and biodiversity.

Using green manual jobs as an integration tool, the schools of ecological transition (ETRE) provide training courses adapted to the needs of young NEETs, combining the acquisition of green soft and hard skills with the discovery of job opportunities in the green economy. It already has 21 active or emerging schools in different places in France which adapt the ETRE pedagogy to the economic needs and social challenges of their territories.

Born in Albania and nurtured with love by students, teachers, and professionals from across the Western Balkans and beyond, the Regional Restoration Camps (RRC) are the living embodiment of Cultural Heritage without Borders’ motto “we restore and build relations.” For 15 years, the RRC have revitalised traditional knowledge and crafts while restoring buildings and instilling a sense of belonging among participants and residents – starting in one small town and now reaching across borders.