NEB Festival 2026 Events

Opening Ceremony featuring official speeches from President Ursula von der Leyen, President Antonio Costa setting the stage for the days ahead

Inaugurating the NEB Festival 2026 with a live performance to welcome participants and inaugurate the opening ceremony

Walking with Water #2 builds on the first edition held during the second Festival of the New European Bauhaus.

This online event, organised under the SURE project (SUstainable and REsilient Communities), brings together citizens, local authorities, civil society organisations and experts to discuss sustainable living and housing solutions in rural areas across Europe.

A special building is to be constructed at Dresden University of Technology: the “Projekthaus Zukunft”. The construction of this building not only meets functional requirements but also reflects the visions of the New European Bauhaus.

FACTS2 is a cultural forum exploring how urban imaginaries shape the way cities are experienced and transformed.

Stockholm Region EU Office and Stockholm Green Innovation District welcome you to a breakfast seminar in Brussels.

Resilient by design: cutting carbon, cutting costs

Making use of what we have: rethinking vacant and underused spaces

Building Europe’s future: transforming the construction sector for a climate-neutral, circular and competitive economy

Concluding perspectives with Commissioner Dan Jørgensen

This event is dedicated to young students and will take place at the Łukasiewicz Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics (IMiF), Poland.

Viana STARTS: A Living Lab for the New European Bauhaus opens the renovation site of the former Municipal Slaughterhouse of Viana do Castelo, Portugal.

Aracelis connects the Baixo Alentejo region of Portugal with the Santuario de la Virgen de la Peña in Andalusia, Spain.

This NEB Satellite Matchmaking Event brings together third-sector organisations, New European Bauhaus practitioners, researchers and technical partners to explore how inclusion can be embedded in the New European Bauhaus.

The event combines a series of nature-based activities employing arts-based methods and digital tools to co-create nature-based solutions in Pansio-Perno, a post-industrial landscape in coastal Turku, Finland.

A hybrid seminar and roundtable of 120 minutes organised by Madrid City Council together with the Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Madrid.

Moving from research evidence to practice, we examine how craft and creativity supports wellbeing across different stages of life.

FAIR Projects in Action. Interactive hands-on workshops led by FAIR exhibitors