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The New European Bauhaus initiative is a creative and transdisciplinary movement that connects the European Green Deal to daily life and living spaces. It aims to bridge the world of science, technology, art, and culture, leveraging green and digital challenges to transform lives. The initiative inspires a movement towards sustainability, aesthetics, and inclusion, bringing citizens, experts, businesses, and institutions together to reimagine sustainable living in Europe and beyond.

New European Bauhaus Investment Guidelines
“The integration of NEB values and principles in design competitions can help select architectural proposals that are characterised by high aesthetic quality while targeting significant environmental and social impacts.”

Read more here about the NEB Guidelines on Architectural Design Competitions on pages 164-166.

The European Green Deal aims to transform the EU into a modern, resource-efficient economy, ensuring no greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, decoupling economic growth from resource use, and ensuring no place is left behind. The European Commission has adopted proposals to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, aiming to transform the EU into a modern, resource-efficient, and competitive economy, ensuring no net emissions by 2050 and decoupling economic growth from resource use. One-third of the €1.8 trillion investments from the NextGenerationEU Recovery Plan and the EU’s seven-year budget will finance the European Green Deal.

In 2018, the European Ministers of Culture adopted the Davos Declaration "Towards a high-quality Baukultur for Europe," promoting the concept of high-quality Baukultur in Europe. The declaration emphasizes that building is culture and creates space for culture. The Davos Declaration forms the basis for the Baukultur movement, which develops scientifically central themes and advocates for political strategies acknowledging cultural aspects of preservation, planning, and building. The Davos Process accumulates various international initiatives and aligns with UNESCO policies, emphasizing cultural diversity, traditional knowledge, and the concept of Baukultur, or the unique culture of an urban ensemble.

The proportion of women among architects and consulting engineers is still very low in Europe. In order to increase the number of female architects, anotHERVIEWture is a Community for Women Architects, which is being established parallel to the anotHERVIEWture Award with the intention of creating a digital library allowing female professionals to present their work. Besides, anotHERVIEWture arranges anotHERVIEWture AWARD every second year. The anotHERVIEWture AWARD introduces women and their work to you and a broader public in order to raise awareness of the female contribution in the building industry and engineering, highlight role models, and transform this field of profession towards equality and diversity.

The NEBULA project, based on the Built4People (B4P) partnership, aims to create a network of B4P Innovation Clusters (B4PIC) to promote a People-centric sustainable built environment. The NEBULA project will provide support activities to improve the visibility, adoption, and uptake of innovative solutions aligned with the New European Bauhaus. The B4PICs will foster cross-sectoral peer learning and cross-border cooperation. The project addresses five dimensions for successful EU-scale, multidisciplinary, and sustainable innovation in the Built Environment: whole value chain, cross-sectoral, locally anchored, cross-border, and access to testbeds and demo spaces.

The Innovation Alliance Circular Design (CiD) project aims to foster entrepreneurship in academia and promote circular design education. It focuses on carbon-neutral cities, bio-based innovation, renewable materials, and bio-machines. The project addresses skills gaps in architecture, urban design, and product/service design, offering a new model for linking design to circularity and urban transformation. It contributes to the New European Bauhaus' goal of merging creativity, arts, and technology for the Green Deal.

UREHERIT is an EU co-funded project to protect the architects for heritage in Ukraine and to support Ukrainian displaced people and the Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors. The UREHERIT project addresses heritage as a resource for sustainable cultural, social, environmental, and economic recovery while solving the challenges of preservation, re-definition, and highlighting the national and local cultural identity and reflecting the memory in the rebuilding. Project participants will share their knowledge and experience and will experiment with the aim of building competence in heritage protection, regeneration of culturally meaningful plans and projects, and empowerment of local communities as a tool for building a new, democratic, and sustainable Ukraine with a unique yet European cultural DNA.

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