The NEB Lab is a co-creation space at the service of the New European Bauhaus community, for the delivery of beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive projects to improve our daily lives.
The Lab is where the New European Bauhaus is implemented through concrete and tangible projects. It is about what we can achieve when we work together in a spirit of openness and trust. It focuses on connecting people, leveraging knowledge and resources across silos, and tapping into each other’s experiences.
NEB Lab projects are guided by two broader missions:
- to create enabling conditions for the green transition, such as new tools, frameworks, policy recommendations, etc.
- to trigger tangible transformation on the ground
What does the NEB Lab do?
The NEB Lab is a project-based structure where Community members self-organise around different topics, often with the goal achieve tangible change in a specific place or context.
The New European Bauhaus Community and EU institutions autonomously develop projects proposals for the NEB Lab. Proposals become NEB Lab projects following a process that ensures a clear purpose, transparency towards the Community, and well-defined beneficiaries.
The NEB Lab:
- Ensures coherence across projects and alignment with the New European Bauhaus principles.
- Supports project development by challenging proposals, connecting projects with the community and institutions for additional support, and bridging local action with the European and international dimension.
- Offers projects space on a dedicated online platform, mentoring and communication support.
The NEB Lab does not provide funding for projects, however project teams can consider support and financing options, e.g. support in kind, EU, national, regional or local public funding, sponsorship.
What are the key characteristics of NEB Lab projects?
NEB Lab projects are developed autonomously by a team of Community members interested in coordinating the project but may also receive support from entities outside of the New European Bauhaus Community. They count on independent experts and most often are expected to deliver change on the ground.
NEB Lab projects:
- Create or replicate beautiful, sustainable, inclusive places, products or experiences or enable initiatives to achieve that.
- Provide results that are practical, replicable or adaptable.
- Are based on international and cross-sectoral partnerships.
- Inform the policy-making processes with their outputs, outcomes, and learnings.
- Offer open-source learning opportunities for NEB Community members.
- Use participatory design methods and tools and draw on cross-disciplinary competences.
What is the relationship between the NEB Lab and the New European Bauhaus Community?
The New European Bauhaus community includes:
- the initiative's partners
- the national contact points
- the New European Bauhaus prize winners and finalists
- The entities behind the beneficiaries of New European Bauhaus calls
The NEB Lab is an engagement structure that exists within the NEB Community.
It combines
- NEB Partners from the non-profit sector coming with priority focus areas and initial project proposals and
- NEB Partners that are for-profit organisations, companies, and public or political entities able to complement with knowledge and resources from the private or institutional sector. NEB Lab proposals must be jointly proposed by these two types of entities in the Community.
The New European Bauhaus team supports the maturing of emerging projects and validates the ones ready to become part of the NEB Lab.