Final Agenda of NEBULA’s final event now available!
On March 6th will take place the final event of the NEBULA project, in cooperation with other EU-funded projects related to the Built Environement and the New European Bauhaus (CrAFt Cities, AEGIR, INGUMA and WOODSTOCK).
During the day, we will discuss the projects’ results and lessons learnt on how:
- Clusters can drive innovation for sustainable construction across Europe,
- Renovation can become more sustainable, beautiful and inclusive,
- Digital tools and education can help implement the New European Bauhaus,
- The New European Bauhaus is taken up by municipalities.
We are excited to announce that you can also attend the event online! The Venue in Brussels is now full, but you can register for the online session by clicking here. Detailed instructions on how to connect will be sent to your email once you register
You can download the agenda here: Shaping Sustainable Futures Agenda 6 March
Creating Innovative Networks for a Sustainable Built Environment: Highlights from Nebula’s final Webinar
On 28 January 2025, Nebula’s final webinar, ‘Creating Innovative Networks for a Sustainable Built Environment’, showcased the power of collaboration under the Buil4People (B4P) Partnership.
The webinar’s agenda included:
- Opening by Karine Laffont-Eloire, Dowel Innovation
- The relevance of Nebula in our ecosystem and the interlinkage with the Built4People Partnership by Anastasiya Yurchyshyna, ECTP
- Built4People Innovation Clusters and the New European Bauhaus, a comprehensive approach by Larissa De Rosso, ACE
- The importance of financial tools by Julie Saccomano, Dowel Innovation
- Testimonial from B4PIC frontrunners by Noelia Ortiz, BuildINN
- STAR*track aims and objectives by Lise Raynaud, Nobatek
- Closing by Karine Laffont-Eloire, Dowel Innovation
The Webinar provided insights into Nebula’s role in supporting Built4People Innovation Clusters (B4PICs) in unlocking new opportunities and fostering cross-border partnerships, promoting peer learning activities and facilitating access to funding.
Tools such as the Metabuilding Platform and the finance toolbox were highlighted which promote knowledge sharing, innovation, funding opportunities and collaboration across Europe. The STAR*Track project aims to continue the work of Nebula and expand the B4PIC Network further to promote sustainable and people-centric innovations within the European built environment.
Don’t forget to sign up for the final Nebula event in Brussels on 6-7 March 2025 to learn more about the projects’ results and lessons learned. Sign up here.
Please watch the full webinar here.
Nebula Appoints NEB Advisors to Connect Local Innovation with the New European Bauhaus Initiative
The Nebula project has taken a significant step towards advancing the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative by appointing NEB Advisors, a group of experts in the European built environment.
These advisors aim to connect local innovation networks with the resources and opportunities available via the Nebula project while supporting the broader NEB initiative.
The NEB is a 2021 initiative by the European Commission that aims to create sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful living spaces. It connects art, culture, science, and technology to support the European Green Deal’s goals of climate neutrality and resource efficiency.
The NEB Advisors hope to promote the NEB values of beauty, sustainability, and togetherness. By linking national stakeholders in the built environment with the broader NEB framework, they aim to empower local networks and facilitate the sharing of key resources and insights across Europe.
Key responsibilities of the NEB Advisors include:
- Disseminating the NEB Handbook to local networks as a key guidance tool on the NEB initiative.
- Promoting Nebula’s peer-learning webinars and events, encouraging knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
- Highlighting Horizon Europe (HE) funding opportunities for NEB-related projects within their networks.
- Identifying local needs, such as financing, upskilling, and collaboration, and connecting these with the Nebula consortium.
The launch of the NEB Advisors represents a significant effort to strengthen the NEB initiative’s impact. Their work is expected to drive innovation and sustainability in the built environment, ensuring that the NEB initiative’s values continue to shape a sustainable and people-focused future for Europe.
Synthesis of the workshop’s outcome about implementing the New European Bauhaus in EU-funded projects now online
On September 24th in Luxemburg, the Nebula project organised the very first workshop dedicated to the New European Bauhaus (NEB) at the Sustainable Places Conference.
The objectives of the session were to raise awareness about the NEB amongst a mixed audience of experts from the built environment, question how they address the NEB value in their respective R&D projects, and identify the remaining challenges towards the further implementation of the new Bauhaus.
Participants discussed their perceptions, good practices, and remaining challenges with regards to implementing the NEB values (beautiful, sustainable, inclusive) and working principles (participatory approach, multi-level engagement, and transdisciplinary).
You can read the full synthesis of the participants’ exchanges following this link.
Built4People Innovation Cluster Charter signed by nine clusters at Built4People Stakeholder Forum 2024
Members of the nine B4PICs that signed the B4PIC Charter at the European Convention Center, Luxembourg.
Signing of the charter
On Monday 23 September 2024, nine Prospective Built4People Innovation Clusters (B4PICs) signed the Built4People (B4P) Innovation Cluster Charter as part of a dedicated signing ceremony at the Built4People Stakeholder forum, held at the European Convention Center, Luxembourg.
A B4P Innovation Cluster (B4PIC) is a group of innovation-driven stakeholders from the built environment that engage in a tailored development and maturation process nurtured by the B4P Partnership. Through this process, the cluster aims to expand its geographical reach, cross-sector collaboration, and multidisciplinary expertise, ultimately enhancing the sustainability and impact of its members’ innovations.
The nine B4PICs were supported by the Nebula consortium, each demonstrating their further commitment to the B4PIC network by signing the charter. The B4PICs who signed the charter were as follows:
- Archenerg International Innovative Cluster for Renewable Energy and Building Trade, Hungary
- BUILT CoLAB, Portugal
- Clust-ER BUILD of Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Construction Industrialization Cluster of Navarre, Spain
- Galicia Construction Cluster, Spain
- Galician Wood and Design Cluster / Cluster da Madeira e o Deseño de Galicia, Spain
- Green Net Finland (GNF), Finland
- Innovation 4 Society, Belgium
- STRESS – Distretto ad Alta Tecnologia per le Costruzioni Sostenibili, Italy
Other network clusters
The first members of the B4PIC Network, Build:INN (Basque Country Construction Cluster) and Odéys (Cluster construction et aménagements durables in Nouvelle-Aquitaine), signed the B4PIC Charter on 18 September 2023, thereby becoming frontrunner B4PICs and confirming their participation in the network. These clusters are collaborating to mobilise innovation in the building and construction sector in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Euskadi Navarra euroregion.
Earlier in September 2024, the B4PIC Network welcomed Novabuild, a new Innovation Cluster from Pays de la Loire, further strengthening the network’s commitment to innovation in the built environment.
Six further clusters from Serbia, France, Italy, Greece, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are scheduled to sign the B4PIC charter by March 2025.
Built4People Partnership, Nebula and STAR*track
The Nebula project has developed a robust maturation process that guides clusters through three stages of maturity, from ‘Prospective’, to ‘Emerging’ and then finally, ‘Established’. By signing the B4PIC Charter, clusters commit to progressing towards the required level of maturity over a specified timeline, developing their cluster status from ‘Emerging’ to ‘Established’.
Once the signed clusters have reached the highest level of defined maturity (by meeting at least two mandatory and one optional ‘success factors’), they will be regarded as an officially ‘Established’ cluster.
The B4P Partnership is a co-programmed public-private partnership within Horizon Europe’s Cluster 5 (climate, energy and mobility). The partnership brings together the European Commission (EC) and two leading associations — ECTP and World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) Europe Regional Network — with a membership base of actors in the built environment.
With €780M (a mix of public and private finance) to fund innovations for the European built environment from 2021–2027, B4P also fosters the establishment of an Innovation Cluster Network. This network is supported by two Coordination and Support Action (CSA) projects, Nebula and STAR*track.
Bridging the Built4People Partnership with the New European Bauhaus (an EU movement for sustainable living), the Nebula project has established a network of Innovation Clusters and offers dedicated support to clusters that have joined the network.
Building upon Nebula’s foundational work, STAR*track aims to expand, strengthen, and support the B4PIC Network and to provide the B4PICs and their members with ICT (Information Computer Technology) tools, access to funding opportunities, and training on sustainable and inclusive development.
Laura Pallares, Head of Europe, WorldGBC, said:
“It was incredibly exciting to witness and celebrate the nine B4PICs signing the Built4People Innovation Cluster Charter. Between them, the clusters represent a diverse array of sustainable innovation across the European built environment. Their collective signing of the charter marks a further step in the Built4People Network’s efforts to catalyse change and galvanise actors of the European architectural landscape into sustainable action.”
Learn more about the B4PIC Network here.
Learn more about Nebula and STAR*track.
New Bauhaus Stories Episode #5: New European Bauhaus on Research & Education
The Nebula project is organising a series of peer learning activities to share experiences and insights about the New European Bauhaus. Join Nebula partners for the fifth instalment on 23 October 2024 to learn about the New European Bauhaus attitudes towards research and education.
Education and research were at the heart of the original Bauhaus School founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Germany. Many years later, the Bauhaus School inspired the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative, launched by the European Commission (EC) in 2021. In the Bauhaus spirit of combining art, science, industry and design, the NEB core values have been defined as ‘beautiful, sustainable, and together’, supported by the working principles of the participatory process, multi-level engagement, and a transdisciplinary approach.
In Episode #5 of our New Bauhaus Stories webinar series , four NEB education and research projects (BAUHAUS4EU, NEBINAR, U-RE-HERIT, and Cultuur&Campus) will share their experiences, discuss how they incorporate NEB values and working principles into their activities, and explore the challenges and opportunities for NEB in research and education moving forward.
BAUHAUS4EU is a European university alliance that aims to create a shared campus with joint teaching, research, and knowledge transfer activities to support the resilient, sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful development of their institutions and regions.
NEBINAR is the New European Bauhaus ACE Initiative for young architects. The aim of the program is to disseminate knowledge about the NEB to a wide audience, especially young architects. The program specifically focuses on the Baltic and Balkan countries. However, the open formula of the program does not exclude the participation of organisations from other European countries.
U-RE-HERIT’s ‘Architects for Heritage in Ukraine: Recreating Identity and Memory’ project focuses on the evaluation, preservation, and restoration of urban and architectural heritage in Ukraine during and after the war. It recognises this heritage as vital for fostering sustainable cultural, social, environmental, and economic recovery.
Cultuur&Campus is a sustainable hub that integrates arts, research, learning, and community, catalysing territorial transitions.
You can learn more about the New Bauhaus Stories webinar series here.
Date: 23 October 2024
Time: 11:00-12:00 (CET)
NEBULA will hold two workshops at Sustainable Places Conference on September 24th 2024
NEBULA brought together several EU projects to set up two workshops at the upcoming SUSTAINABLE PLACES conference, to be held on 24 September 2025.
The two sessions will respectively deal with:
➡ 𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘃𝗲: Deep-renovation solutions: this session will showcase seven EU projects developing solutions for deep renovation, and discuss cross-cutting issues embracing circularity, inclusiveness, and aesthetics. The partner projects are: REHOUSE EU – FORTESIE EU Project – Chronicle Project – EBENTO project –
SMARTeeSTORY Project – INPERSO Project – MULTICARE EU project.
➡ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝘂𝗵𝗮𝘂𝘀 (𝗡𝗘𝗕): 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗥&𝗗 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗘𝗕 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵: this workshop aims to raise awareness among participants about incorporating the NEB principles and practices in their R&D approach. The session is jointly held with the projects digiNEB – NEB-STAR – Re-Value Cities – ENACT 15mC – Green Deal ARV – syn_ikiaEU.
Check out the full Conference programme on this page.
Couldn’t participate in our 2nd Matchmaking event? Watch the recording!
On the 7th of June 2024, NEBULA organised its second InfoDay & Matchmaking event dedicated to upcoming Built4People calls, with the support of Greenet.
After a welcoming addressed by Inès Elisabeth Kahin and Mohaddeseh Maktabifard from R2M, Anastasiya Yurchyshyna from ECTP presented the Built4People Partnership, in particular its objectives and the community that is being built around it. Eleftherios Bourdakis from CINEA then introduced the B4P call for proposals that will open in September and close in January 2025, and which includes 5 topics (2 RIAs and 3 IAs) with a total available EU contribution of 50M€. Insights on EU contribution per country and participant type from the past calls were also provided.
The second part of the InfoDay gave the floor to two Innovation Clusters that are in the process of joining the network launched by B4P. Anastasiya Yurchyshyna introduced the session by explaining what a “B4P Innovation Cluster” is, why and how to become one. The digital platform METABUILDING, used by B4P to manage its ecosystem and the network of B4PICs, was also presented. Julie Saccomano from DOWEL Innovation (coordinator of NEBULA) completed the presentation with an overview of the current geographical coverage of B4PICs already in the network or in the process of joining it. CMD (Galicia Wood and Design Cluster, Spain) and Habitech (Italy) then presented their clusters, competences and interest in the upcoming calls.
A demonstration of the matchmaking facility offered by Greenet through the B2match tool was finally offered by Frankie Borg from the Malta Council for Science and Technology: all participants were invited to register to this matchmaking platform to find partners and team up for the next B4P calls.
The event ended with a Q&A session, which included questions about the call topics, the expected reporting toward the B4P partnership and the link to the NEB Facility.
If you missed the event, you can still watch the recording, or download the slides HERE.
Useful links:
- Join the METABUILDING platform and the B4P ecosystem to advertise your innovations for the Built Environment, find funding opportunities and connect with partners from the construction sector
- Sign up to receive the invitations to the Built4People Stakeholder Forum meetings, and our B4P Newsletter by filling in the form at the bottom of this page
- Go to GREENET Partner Search Tool (b2match.io) to find networking opportunities in Cluster 5 of Horizon Europe
