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ImperfectCity
The city of Aarhus aims at increasing public awareness for the perpetual imperfection of our cities. Aarhus ran into several “wicked” problems (WiP) by trying to build a perfect welfare state, such as the deteriorating mental health of youth and brutalist buildings. To tackle these challenges, ImperfectCity is a re-thinking neighbourhood-planning method created by and built for its citizens. The solution is based on changing the mindset and reducing the stigma of both Brutalist buildings and mental health patients by applying heritage innovation, environmental innovation and social innovation, using New European Bauhaus principles. With Lego Serious Play methodology, an innovative combination for urban planning and building self-inclusion, ImperfectCity will develop an inclusive future, sustainable and beautiful for the eyes, mind and soul.
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NatUR-W
NatUR-W (Nature-based Urban Regeneration through Water) project aims at regenerating the urban area of the city of Lorca, to face energy poverty and the inefficient use of natural water resources caused by climate change. The city will implement innovative, inclusive, sustainable and self-sufficient nature-based solutions that integrate the natural water cycle of the area to improve the energy efficiency of social housing and public buildings, rehabilitating an old prison into a citizen's university. These solutions will improve the living conditions of the dwellings and create new green areas that can act as bioclimatic shelters and provide Ecosystems Services, using New European Bauhaus principles.
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RELAUNCHTOWIN
The City of Burgas aims to create an aesthetic, functional and sustainable urban environment which inspires creativity, collaboration, and life-long learning. RELAUNCHTOWIN will renovate a Sports Hall with energy efficiency measures and transform the surrounding areas with nature-based solutions to combat climate change. The Municipality of Burgas aims at adding new functions to the site including creating a community centre for social collaboration and the sustainability of local culture and traditions. RELAUNCHTOWIN will lead to better physical and mental health of local people and give citizens a stronger sense of belonging whilst improving their knowledge of energy efficiency and climate adaption measures.
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S4T
The alpine town of Rovereto needs to improve the quality of life of its citizens by regenerating and transforming the cultural heritage of the territory in face of mounting climate and biodiversity challenges. Therefore, the city proposes to transform the empty main building of the train station and its surrounding area into a public-civic hub whose spaces will serve as interactive venues for training, co-design, co-production and knowledge transfer for promising public, civic and economic initiatives on to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and heritage regeneration. The implementation of the S4T solution mobilizes NEB’s three core values and principles of “Understand, Adapt and Use”.
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SHARE
Revitalizing the center of Fuenlabrada is crucial for addressing the city's main challenges, including deteriorated housing quality, high vacancy rates for both residential and commercial spaces and an aging population that exceeds the city's average. The main concept of the SHARE project is to propose a new housing model based on intergenerational solidarity, aligning with the principles of the new European Bauhaus. The project involves renovating a former school to establish a Lifelong Housing Center for elderly people residing in the city center, while their previous apartments are transformed into social housing for young individuals. This innovative model seeks to preserve the autonomy of the elderly while providing stability for the younger generation, ultimately enhancing the downtown area by creating accessible, affordable and high-quality living environments for both seniors and youth. To support this innovative vision, a City Centre Community Care Unit (4CU) will be established, facilitating collaboration among municipal authorities, key partners, and stakeholders.
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SOFTacademy
The SOFTacademy project seeks to accelerate neighbourhood level circular renovation of large multi-owner apartment buildings with a hardware and software approach demonstrating how residents’ initiatives in renovation boosts re-design of the whole neighbourhood, including spaces in between buildings. The project will develop a collaborative innovation model for urban governments to accelerate private renovation by improving overall urban liveability, creating better micro-climate, increasing biodiversity, accommodating community functions, changing the scale of buildings and creating “cozier” and more human scale living environment. The intervention logic as well as digital tools developed as a part of the solution are transferable to any mass-produced mono-functional apartment building districts that needs a change that goes beyond just renovation and is able to give a sense of place and identity.
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Time2Adapt
The temperature has increased by 2°C between 1955 and 2017 in the metropolitan area of Lille, questioning the liveability of urban areas especially in summer, causing discomfort and inequalities. The Metropole of Lille seeks to adapt to climate change and regenerate urban spaces by intensifying the way we use them to have more places adapted to become thermal shelters. Time2Adapt project will put in place a co-development process to make the city more liveable, more attractive, in a more egalitarian and socially just place, following New European Bauhaus principles. The idea is to test at metropolitan scale a time-based urbanism as a lever for better use of public buildings and spaces, thereby answering the need for more cool places in warm periods in cities, while limiting land artificialisation, building on the existing urban fabric. To reach this objective, innovative solutions will consist in adapting opening schedules of cool places, creating new uses and transforming other places to make them cooler and opening them to all, as well as temporary occupying public spaces with refreshing artistic installations, with a focus on encouraging appropriation and innovative methods of managing these places.
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Urban Biodiversity Parks
The city of Turku has an ambition to become one of the world’s leading nature and climate cities. Therefore, Turku Biodiversity Action Plan seeks to protect and restore biodiversity in urban areas where habitats are lost due to rapid urbanization, through innovative solutions. Following New European Bahaus principles, Urban Biodiversity Parks project will develop an innovative concept of urban biodiversity park as a tool to establish a platform for developing and testing experimental approaches, for preserving and actively enhancing biodiversity in urban environment. This project will involve different groups such as local inhabitants, NGOs, education institutions and private actors, to increase stakeholders’ awareness and capacity for biodiversity conservation.
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Viana S+T+ARTS Centre
The Municipality of Viana de Castelo aims to increase city’s attractiveness towards young talents by triggering its blue innovation potential. The project will deliver a creative and community lab operating in the spirit of Science+Technology+ARTS and potentiating art-driven blue innovation, to co-create unconventional solutions and revitalise the surrounding poor neighbourhood. To host this Centre, the project will transform the municipal old slaughterhouse building, demonstrating a set of innovative energy-efficiency, low carbon and circular solutions and using New European Bauhaus principles. The retrofitted and amplified building will be a fusion of innovative components (including experimental technologies currently available in prototype version) that have never been brought together in one single establishment, which will be tested in a real environment. This includes the use of experimental practices involving natural local residues as construction materials, a novel system for storing surplus electrical renewable energy of the building in the form of green hydrogen and turning this back into electricity when there is deficit of production, as well as the first building to integrate a digitally controllable rotating pilot division to maximise solar energy harvest. Viana S+T+ARTS Centre project will provide novel sustainability solutions and contribute to environmentally responsible behaviour in the community.
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WATSUPS
WATSUPS project aims at mitigating the risk of gentrification by developing a new public space alongside the river Dyle in the city of Mechelen. A visible blue-green corridor will connect people, water and nature. The city chooses to preserve water in the urban landscape, assuring access to all citizens rather than privatizing urban water. They will establish a permanent outdoor swimming area, create river terraces and lowered riverbanks around the Dyle, connect the fragmented walking and cycling zones and develop brand new public parks and park lanes for recreation and social cohesion. The multi-species approach will be strengthened by augmented and virtual reality. Using New European Bahaus principles, the innovative solution will raise awareness on water ecosystems and biodiversity and will strengthen the ecosystem by new technologies and nature-based solutions.
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We-Z
We-Z tests a transitional model of urban regeneration to improve mental health in young people. The experimental site is a ‘70s public housing complex called Vigne Nuove located in the North-Eastern periphery of Rome, remained largely unfinished, and today characterised by a diffuse sense of neglect and isolation. The We-Z project will experiment an innovative de-medicalized approach to urban regeneration through the activation of collective imaginations and co-creation activities. We-Z will re-activate affective bonds between people and places and build an attractive district, based on transitional spaces and objects to trigger the active and self-reflective engagement of young people.
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AHA Budapest
The AHA Budapest project aims to address housing insecurity and energy poverty with new flexible and affordable solutions. The project aims to develop an Integrated Housing Service Model with a set of offers for permanent and temporary housing relying on both the public and private housing stocks. An early warning system will be set up to anticipate social and energy interventions for new at-risk target groups. A smart support scheme will be developed to promote safe temporary cohabitation and flat exchange arrangements based on engagement, trust building, mentoring and mediation. A revolving fund for energy efficient retrofit grants and other flexible interventions will be tested to reduce energy poverty and prevent the degradation of dwellings. An unused non-residential public building will be renovated and repurposed for near-zero energy social housing using energy efficient technologies and low-cost, aesthetic modular interior by inclusive design approaches involving beneficiaries.
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InterACT Green
The Agglomeration of Varaždin and Ludberg, located in the north Croatia, have a high strategic interest: the River Drava Forest Park. However, this Drava Park faces three main challenges: management difficulties, unused public spaces and forest degradation. Therefore, the InterAct Green project aims to create a Green Infrastructure Platform that will serve to answer the interdisciplinary management issues, to ensure a proper functioning of it while securing usable information for visitors to the park. This platform will serve as a tool in decision making and communication between all stakeholders. By doing so, the proposed physical infrastructure investments together with the long-term forest regeneration plan for the ecosystem in the area will result in high quality, inclusive and safe-public space.
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Rock the Block
The City of Egaleo seeks to tackle the vicious cycle created between low housing quality/unsatisfied housing needs and weak community bonds. To reach this goal, the Rock the Block project proposes an innovative Urban Policy and Funding tool to improve housing via technical transformations and renovations. Residents will also benefit via community building and upskilling and institutional interventions for care and support. Following New European Bauhaus principles, the innovative project uses “Polykatoikia” as the intervention unit to deal collectively with common problems, setting up a new transferable urban policy
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude Centre
For 30 years a wide community has been working for the establishment of a new art center in Gabrovo, the hometown of artist Christo. The project aims to address local and global social challenges through artistic license, cross-disciplinary sustainable and future-oriented solutions.
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The Urban powerhouse
The project will develop an old, abandoned power plant into a sustainable platform for human encounters, art and culture, municipal services, retail and affordable housing. The idea is to conceptualize and renovate the building by valuing cultural heritage, aesthetics, circularity and urban porosity.
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Vridsløse
The project aims at transforming Vridsløse – a former prison complex in the heart of Albertslund - into a new liveable and green neighbourhood, where the future residents of the area as well as the rest of Albertslund feel a sense of belonging.
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Creative and digital industries quarter RAINIS
RAINIS is a meeting and working place for the creative community in the heart of the city with its own ecosystem, where people of all ages meet to set the direction for a better and greener future through the prism of art, culture and action.
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Faial Island Arts Bank
The project will create a transformative island, community, cultural, digital and arts-based, participatory hub, renovating a very beautiful public heritage building, in a spirit of circularity, connecting sea, island’s culture and its human diversity, creating a “glocal” islander regeneration wave or “swell”.
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GAIACELLS
The eradication of shanty towns in agricultural areas through the bioconstruction of temporary accommodation using the Superadobe technique. GAIACELLS is proposed as a dignified, effective, aesthetic, participatory and sustainable solution to the serious problem of social inclusion.
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Innovation Campus Project
The Innovation Campus project consists of the renovation and extension of the Herzog site (3.5 ha), into a to a space of innovation for creation, training, entrepreneurship and organization of cultural and social events, through a collaborative process bringing together different stakeholders.
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LEDSROAR
Ledras and Onasagorou are the main pedestrian commercial streets in the walled historic centre of Nicosia. They have fallen into decadence, more so following the economic crisis and the pandemic. The project aims at bringing life back to the area in an aesthetically pleasing, inclusive and sustainable way.
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Minda
Resita's dynamic urban regeneration envisions for 2030 a green and vibrant city, by treasuring the 250 years of metal industry inheritance. This is clearly illustrated by 'Minda' experience - redesigning a former industrial site into a living place for the community and a space for creatives.
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Network of Villages for the Future
The project idea is to define and implement a new policy mix for the Villages of the cross-border EUROACE Euroregion, structure catchment areas based on complementary network services and foster new rural-urban relationships.
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Positioning of the military heritage at the soviet army missile base in Zeltini to a tourism, entrepreneurship and nature research infrastructure
The aim of the project is to create a high-quality and safe tourism, entrepreneurship and nature research infrastructure and a complex management solution in the territory of the Soviet army Missile base in Zeltiņi, Alūksne municipality.
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Revitalisation of the 'TUP' Carbon Graphite and Electrical Contact Products Factory
The project proposal aims at transforming the factory into a place that promotes local creative ideas, coexistence of the local community and tourists, and implements the concept of self-sustainability using a transdisciplinary approach.
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Rural Patterns
The project proposal rests on re-designing the urban space of the city’s center through extended water-permeable paving systems, natural materials, natural elements such as trees, and customized objects that integrate natural sources such as rainwater and sunlight, shaping a new sustainable identity.
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Step by step to sustainable inclusion
The idea of this project is the renovation and upgrade of the Roma settlement in the City of Kutina, whose ultimate goal is a fully infrastructurally equipped and functional, resilient and above all sustainable part of the city with a well-integrated, satisfied and happy community.
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SURE-Kalmar
This project will be the first step to transform a 100-hectare centrally located industrial zone in Kalmar into a resilient, sustainable and inclusive urban design/spa. The project team, with close cooperation of local communities, will turn the industrial zone into living space reflecting the core values of the New European Bauhaus.
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From Ironworks to FutureWorks!
The project aims to support the transformation of the Old Ironworks Museum Area in the Slovenian town of Ravne na Koroškem into a contemporary urban centre for inhabitants and visitors by using the town's industrial cultural heritage as the key element of its cultural and economic transformation.
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Furniture and Lacework Widespread Museum
Furniture and lacework widespread museum with headquarters between Villa Calvi and former Sant'Ambrogio Church, aimed at enhancing and preserving the productive and cultural traditions of the territory, upgrading of the architectural heritage and enhancing tourist-cultural-commercial attractiveness.
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L'Olivera DigitALL
The transformation of an existing building into an innovative education public facility. It will have new room arrangements and services that facilitate the digital transition, leaving no one behind. It is intended to become a green, neutral-emissions building with a spirit of full circularity.
NEB Local Initiatives
Taxonomy
The initial clustering of digital tools and projects resulted in a comprehensive taxonomy that is used as tags in the directories.
Parametric design
A design method in which features, such as building elements and engineering components, are shaped based on algorithmic processes.
Community
Digital participation, deliberation, e-voting and other digital tools and projects for political processes and organisations.
Training/Skills
Any means to transfer knowledge or skills by courses, training, MOOCs or other educational methods.
BIM/Digital Twins
Digital representations of the physical and functional characteristics of buildings and other physical assets. Digital Twins are best used for building maintenance and operations while Building Information Modelling (BIM) is best used for construction and design.
AI
Artificial Intelligence is a set of technologies that provide computers the ability to extract insights from images, documents, and videos, to understand and translate spoken and written language, analyze data, make recommendations, and more.
Data/Digital/Monitoring
A collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system, used to check performance.
Energy
With a focus on renewable energy and energy-efficiency in buildings and the built environment.
Platforms/Networks
Models that use online infrastructure to facilitate interactions between groups and communities.
Smart/IoT
Smart devices and smart city concepts that (among others) derive data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are omnipresent in the built environment.