NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

How do we feed the world now and in the future in a way that gives back to the earth as much as it takes? The Food Museum addresses this question with a pop-up exhibition about the versatility of our food system. Artists, food producers, chefs, scientists and students come together to think, research, eat, taste and discuss the potential of designing our food system for positive change. Part on the project revolves around co-creation with secondary vocational students.

The project is led by the local authority of Saint-Étienne Métropole, to give a new start to the Manufacture district, the former industrial area of the arms factory. La Perm' was created by students and teachers from the Saint-Étienne School of Art and Design to co-design part of the district.
The project consists of taking education outside its walls. La Perm' team works with designers, companies, local authorities and residents in a transversal and interdisciplinary way.

Sustainability, gaming, inclusion, youth, empowerment are the key words of GYGA project. GYGA - Green Young Gaming Ambassadors is an innovative project by Generativa! APS that approaches the challenge of environmental sustainability engaging a young people community under 25 and mixing education and gaming. The outputs were two environment themed video games.

The Innovative Approaches in Early Childhood Education virtual global conference, to be held on October 10-11, 2023, aims to unleash the potential of young minds. Since the foundation for success and well-being is established in the early years the quality of early childhood education is crucial. Early childhood educators will have the chance to learn from leading experts in the field and discover the latest strategies for nurturing and inspiring the next generation of leaders and innovators.

This project seeks to explore the role of neighbourhood movements as creators of a new citizen identity and their impact on the city from a perspective that includes other forms of activism. Focusing on the role of women, who are often invisible, it aims to understand the neighbourhood struggle from a new perspective. We set up a workshop and a methodology that addresses this history through the memories of the neighbourhood's women residents.

Mind over Matter draws inspiration from the humankind's aspiration to create a better world. Our initiative wants to help shape young minds so that they can use creativity and intellect to transform matter into something that is useful, sustainable and adds value to the world. With an innovative methodology that forms a transdisciplinary approach to scientific problem-solving by integrating art into science, we aim to demistify scientific processes and motivate young people to approach STEM.

Together through Art is an independent self-supported project, born in May 2022 and dedicated to young Romanian artists. The physical space of this project hosts an NGO active in the cultural area and an art gallery which fosters young artists. The location of this space is in a degraded area of ​​Bucharest, the houses in this area being occupied by the Roma community and homeless persons. By choosing this location, we want to bring together diverse communities, overcoming segregation.

Carbon Garage is an industrial ecosystem, functioning as an open learning and co-development environment, where solutions for sustainability challenges and mitigating climate change will be concretely promoted in the short and long term through inclusive projects.

WHAT COULD/SHOULD CURATING DO?—WCSCD was established as an educational platform in 2018 around notions of care. From 2023 we will further institute WCSCD exploring what it means for an art institution to become custodian of the land while working towards an economically and ecologically sustainable future. We prioritize long-term ways of working together, based on equal sharing of resources, creating conditions for equal participation within economically uneven contexts.

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