New European Bauhaus Facility

A facility providing funding for fundamental research, testing and demonstration projects related to the New European Bauhaus’ three core values of sustainability, inclusion and beauty. A roll-out component will also promote the uptake, further development and deployment of outputs of the R&I component.

The New European Bauhaus is an environmental, economic and cultural project, aiming to combine design, sustainability, accessibility, affordability and investment in order to help deliver the European Green Deal. Launched in 2021, the objective of the New European Bauhaus is to articulate, in an innovative way, its three core values of sustainability, inclusion and beauty.

The NEB Facility is a multi-annual (2025-2027) and cross-cutting tool to revitalise European neighbourhoods with design for sustainability and inclusion. It will support projects on the sustainable transformation of the built environment. The NEB Facility aims to make the inhabitants of the built environment partners of change.

Activities under the NEB Facility should contribute to the wider social acceptance of the innovative solutions developed, accelerating the just green and digital transformation and strengthening and restoring citizens’ trust in democracy. They should also explore the built environment’s function in the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems, its relation to historical urban, peri-urban or rural areas, the improvement of social cohesion as well as people’s health and well-being.

The NEB Facility is composed of a research and innovation (R&I) component and a roll-out component:

• The R&I component will cover fundamental research, testing and demonstration. It will be implemented as a cross-cluster issue in the Horizon Europe Work Programmes with an indicative budget of €120 million per year for the period 2025-27.
• The roll-out component of the NEB Facility will seek to facilitate the uptake, further development and deployment of new knowledge, methods, approaches and technologies developed under the R&I component. It will also include all actions delivered under EU programmes that contribute to the goals of the Facility and particularly the implementation of the NEB values and principles at the neighbourhood level. It will build further on the projects and experiences from the first three years of the NEB.

The knowledge produced by NEB projects, the NEB Community and other relevant NEB actions will be collected, centralised, managed and monitored in a New European Bauhaus Hub. This will give an overview of all the knowledge produced, the progress made, the challenges faced and the research gaps yet to overcome. Thereby, the Hub will contribute to informing the implementation of the NEB Facility and will help to increase its impact. In the upcoming years and following work programmes after 2025, the Hub will be essential to facilitate potential synergies and joint actions between the NEB Facility and other projects.