The New European Bauhaus is a creative and transdisciplinary movement in the making!
- It is a bridge between the world of science and technology, art and culture.
- It is about leveraging our green and digital challenges to transform our lives for the better.
- It is an invitation to address complex societal problems together through co-creation.
By creating bridges between different backgrounds, cutting across disciplines and building on participation at all levels, the New European Bauhaus inspires a movement to facilitate and steer the transformation of our societies along three inseparable values:
- sustainability, from climate goals, to circularity, zero pollution, and biodiversity
- aesthetics, quality of experience and style, beyond functionality
- inclusion, from valuing diversity, to securing accessibility and affordability
The New European Bauhaus brings citizens, experts, businesses, and institutions together to reimagine sustainable living in Europe and beyond. In addition to creating a platform for experimentation and connection, the initiative supports positive change also by providing access to EU funding for beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive projects.
- 4 May 2022Lighthouse projects to be financed across Europe
Five projects selected for the €25 million call for the development of ‘lighthouse demonstrators’ of the New European Bauhaus (NEB).
- 7 April 2022Launch of ‘NEB LAB' with new projects and call for Friends
The NEB LAB is a ‘think and do' tank to make the New European Bauhaus a reality through concrete and tangible projects. By connecting the initiative's growing community and sharing ideas, it will bring about beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive changes on the ground.
The launch of the ‘NEB LAB' starts with a call for Friends of the New European Bauhaus to involve companies and public actors such as regions, villages and cities, more directly in the New European Bauhaus.
On 7 April, the Commission also announced the winner of an international architectural contest for a new building that will house 400 researchers at the Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain.
- 30 March 2022Open calls: support for citizens, cities, and towns
Three new New European Bauhaus calls are available to support citizens, cities and towns to bring their beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive initiatives closer to their communities.
Support to New European Bauhaus local initiatives (ERDF)
Co-creation of public space through citizen engagement (EIT)
- 17 February - December 2022Open call: Transformation of places of learning
Share your project and join other passionate individuals and organisations making a difference in where and how people learn across Europe and beyond - from classrooms to streets and from playgrounds to libraries.
- 11 February 2022Horizon Europe-New European Bauhaus Nexus report published
The report is opening a window over the potential for the EU research and innovation framework programme to contribute to the New European Bauhaus.
- 9 February 2022Open calls to co-create the first New European Bauhaus Festival
The Festival of the New European Bauhaus will take place from 9 to 12 June 2022 as a hybrid event. The core activities will take place in Brussels, with side events across the EU and beyond. The call to creators and organisations to join and be part of the Festival is open until 21 March 2022.
- 18 January 2022Launch of the 2022 New European Bauhaus Prizes
The 2022 New European Bauhaus prizes will celebrate new inspiring examples of the transformations the initiative wants to bring about in our daily lives, living spaces and experiences.
- 16 September 2021New European Bauhaus Prize Winners
European Commissioners Ferreira and Gabriel awarded 20 inspiring projects and ideas that pave the way for the future.
- 15 September 2021New European Bauhaus Communication adoption
The Commission adopted a Communication that sets out the framework, core principles and key actions that will drive the New European Bauhaus forward, as it moves from co-design to delivery. The delivery presents also the first elements of a support framework at EU level.
- 30 June 2021End of the co-design phase
During the co-design phase, more than 200 multidisciplinary conversations took place and about 2000 contributors shared their ideas, challenges and visions via the New European Bauhaus website. All the inputs fed into the sense-making process and helped shape the concept of the initiative.
- 22-23 April 2021New European Bauhaus Conference & launch of 2021 Prizes
The 2-day conference brought together architects, engineers, urban planners, climate activists, scientists, local representatives, creative minds, students and educators from all over the world. More than 8500 people from 85 countries followed the debates, panel discussions and workshops on the future of living. As part of the event the first New European Bauhaus Prize was launched.
- 18 January 2021Launch of the co-design phase
The goal of the 6-month design phase was to shape the New European Bauhaus concept through a co-creation process by exploring ideas, identifying the most urgent needs and challenges, and connecting interested parties. Key actors in this process of collecting contributions from across Europe and beyond have been the initiative's ambassadors - the members of the high-level roundtable and our official partners.
- September 2020State of the Union Address by President von der Leyen
"I want NextGenerationEU to kickstart a European renovation wave and make our Union a leader in the circular economy. But this is not just an environmental or economic project: it needs to be a new cultural project for Europe. [...] This is why we will set up a new European Bauhaus – a co-creation space where architects, artists, students, engineers, designers work together to make that happen. This is shaping the world we want to live in."