The European Commission has announced the 15 winners of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Prizes for 2023 and the 14 successful projects under the first European Urban Initiative.
The winners receive a monetary prize of up to €30,000 and support to help them further develop and promote their projects and concepts.
The winners are:
- Community Garden in Podgorica (Montenegro) winner of the online public vote
- Ripple (Ireland) in the category ‘Reconnecting with nature’
- Sacromonte Caves Museum (Spain) in the category ‘Regaining a sense of belonging’
- Aalborg East: From isolated to inclusive (Denmark) in the category ‘Prioritising the places and people that need it the most’
- TOVA (International) in the category ‘Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking’
The winners of the ‘New European Bauhaus Rising Stars’, applicants under 30, receiving a monetary prize of €15,000 for their promising concepts are:
- Roofscapes (France)
- Noi Ortadini Community Garden in Matera (Italy)
- Nature’s Library (Lithuania)
- SAGA – a healing journey through play (Denmark)
- CREATIVE FACTORY SHOP (France)
The winners of the ‘New European Bauhaus Education Champions’ receiving a monetary prize of €30,000 for learning and education initiatives are:
- Klimaatspeelplaats (Belgium)
- Floating University Berlin (Germany)
- Science in Migrant Communities (International)
- Danube Design Lab Ruse (Bulgaria)
- Land&Hand (Netherlands)
This third edition received more than 1,400 applications and for the first time, also included applications for initiatives in the Western Balkans.
The 14 projects under first European Urban Initiative (dedicated to the New European Bauhaus) came from 12 EU countries, with a majority of small and medium-sized cities.
The ‘laureates’ of the first EUI-Innovative actions call are:
- NatUR-W (Lorca, Spain)
- Viana S+T+ARTS Centre (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
- ImperfectCity (Aarhus, Denmark)
- S4T (Rovereto, Italy)
- AHA Budapest (Budapest, Hungary)
- Rock the Block (Egaleo, Greece)
- SHARE (Fuenlabrada, Spain)
- SOFTacademy (Tallin, Estonia)
- RELAUNCHTOWIN (Burgas, Bulgaria),
- Time2Adapt (Lille European Metropolis, France)
- WATSUPS (Mechelen, Belgium)
- We-Z (District III of Rome – Montesacro, Italy)
- Urban Biodiversity Parks (Turku, Finland)
- InterACT Green (Varaždin, Croatia).
The winning projects will serve as demonstrators in the areas of constructing and renovating in a spirit of circularity and sustainability.
Each project will receive up to up to a maximum of €5 million ERDF co-financing and project implementation will take place within a maximum period of 3.5 years. The initiative attracted 99 applications from 21 EU Member States and 125 urban authorities involved, 76% of which from small and medium size cities (less than 250 000 inhabitants).