New European Bauhaus Prizes 2024

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 the societies according to three inseparable values:

• sustainability, from climate goals, to circularity, zero pollution, and biodiversity
• inclusion, from valuing diversity, to securing accessibility and affordability
• aesthetics and quality of experience for people, through design, and cultural benefits

The initiative was launched by the European Commission in 2020 and co-designed with thousands of people and organisations across Europe and beyond. Since then, the New European Bauhaus community has never ceased to grow. To celebrate this achievement and to further promote the values of sustainability, inclusion and aesthetics, in 2024 the New European Bauhaus Festival will gather for its second edition people from all walks of life to debate and shape the future. Under the moto of ‘Resources for all’, from April 17 to April 21, numerous workshops, activities and discussions will take place in Brussels at the same time with satellite events in cities across the EU. The Festival will also host the Awards Ceremony of the New European Bauhaus Prizes 2024, where the will celebrate the brilliant projects and concepts of all finalists, and announce the winners of the competition.

What is new in the 2024 edition?

• For the first time, they welcome applications of projects and concepts in Ukraine, in addition to EU Member-States and the Western Balkans.
• In this edition, they will award the ‘Special Recognition to Ukraine’s Reconstruction and Recovery Effort’ prizes to support Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery effort and recognize the country’s commitment to build back better.
• The New European Bauhaus Prizes 2024 will also put the spotlight on regions across the EU facing more intensively socio-economic constrains, and places challenged the most by the need to evolve to a carbon neutral economy. One fourth of the Prizes will be awarded to projects and concepts with a positive transformative role for these regions.

Categories and Strands of the Award

• The Prizes 2024 will be awarded in four established categories based on the thematic axes of transformation that guide the delivery of the New European Bauhaus:
  • Reconnecting with nature
  • Regaining a sense of belonging
  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most
  • Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking
• In each of the four categories, two parallel competition strands are established:
  • Strand A: ‘New European Bauhaus Champions’ – will be devoted to existing and completed projects with clear and positive results.
  • Strand B: ‘New European Bauhaus Rising Stars’ – will be devoted to concepts submitted by young talents aged 30 years old or younger. The concepts can be at different levels of development, from ideas with a clear plan to the prototype level.

Award Information

• The winners and runners-up will receive a monetary prize of:
  • EUR 30,000 for winners of the New European Bauhaus Champions (Strand A)
  • EUR 15,000 for winners of the New European Bauhaus Rising Stars (Strand B)
  • EUR 20,000 for runners-up of the New European Bauhaus Champions (Strand A)
  • EUR 10,000 for runners-up of the New European Bauhaus Rising Stars (Strand B)
  • EUR 30,000 for the winner of the ‘Special Recognition to Ukraine’s Reconstruction and Recovery Effort’ prize.
  • EUR 15,000 for the runner-up of the ‘Special Recognition to Ukraine’s Reconstruction and Recovery Effort’ prize.
• In addition to a monetary amount, each winner and runner-up will benefit from a communication package provided by the European Commission (e.g., promotion in the European Commission’s social media and websites, production of a short video and support in promoting the projects).

Eligibility Criteria

• All applicants for the New European Bauhaus Prizes must meet the following criteria:
  • Applicants can be EU or non-EU residents, as long as their projects and concepts are implemented in the EU, in the Western Balkans, or in Ukraine.
  • Special rules apply for certain entities (e.g. entities subject to EU restricted measures under Article 29 of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and Article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU) and entities covered by Commission Guidelines No 2013/C 205/056). Such entities are not eligible to participate in any capacity.
  • The application must be submitted by:
    • In Strand A: the individual(s) or the organisation(s) (city or region, funder, organiser) who is/are entitled to represent the project.
    • In Strand B: the individual(s) or the organisation(s) who are the author(s) of the concept. If several co-authors are behind the concept and have participated in its design/development, all authors must be listed accordingly. All applicants in this strand must be 30 years old or younger on the final day of call for applications, including all representatives of the organisation involved in the creation of the given concept.
  • The applicant should not be in one or more of the exclusion situations foreseen under Article 136 of the Financial Regulation.
  • The applicant will assume sole liability in the event of a claim relating to the activities carried out in the framework of the contest.
  • The name of the legal representative must be indicated.

For more information, visit European Commission.