NEB Festival 2026 Events

The Manual of Public Spaces in the Brussels Capital Region

Participants will hear directly from EUI-funded cities and explore how urban practices can combine sustainability, inclusion, and aesthetics in practical and inspiring ways.

Learn how the first six New European Bauhaus (NEB) lighthouse demonstrators use place-based experiments as catalysts for lasting territorial transformation.

This workshop builds on the findings of the NEB4All project and makes them subject to an open exchange with the public that reflects the diversity of national contexts and experiences in NEB NCP work.

Design, tinker, sew, cut, and assemble with curated materials all while exploring how to make fashion sustainable.

Closing speech from Commissioner Jessika Roswall

The D. Dance Alliance project explores the relationship between architecture and the arts through contemporary dance.

Celebrating the winners of the Trophy Competition, their creativity and innovation.

This event brings together landscape planners, urban designers, civil society initiatives and policy-related perspectives in Vienna to discuss concrete approaches for integrating green infrastructure into dense urban contexts.

s on the regeneration and contemporary valorisation of minor urban centres, rural inner areas, and traditional and vernacular architecture that are often marginalised in mainstream planning, design and policy frameworks.

CitySenZ presents COST Action CA23145 as a living laboratory to rethink European cities through their lived and sensory qualities.

Led by STARHAUS, this satellite event explores open innovation within the New European Bauhaus, focusing on participatory design, co-creation and inclusive governance that turn New European Bauhaus values into social, cultural and economic impact.

Heat, heavy rain and daily stress affect bodies long before they affect public decision-making.

Fast trends and digital algorithms are driving a cycle of overconsumption, exclusion, and anxiety.

In a dance duet full of hope, two humanoids moving through the remnants of a forgotten past begin to rediscover what it once meant to be human.

Keynote Speech

Europe's AI factories are not merely computing infrastructure — they are the new ateliers. Like the original Bauhaus workshops, they are spaces where craft, creativity, and technology converge to prototype new ways of making and living.

Noi Împreună Festival is an inclusive cultural event organised in Ploiești, Romania, dedicated to people with disabilities.

This satellite event at POLE unites policymakers and practitioners to explore how sustainability can drive true transformation across Europe.