The NEB Festival

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The next edition of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Festival is taking place in Brussels from 9 to 13 June 2026. The Festival will show participants what they can accomplish when they join together to make their communities more eco-friendly, inclusive, and beautiful.

It will offer three different event components: a Forum, where current key issues will be discussed; a Fair, where the latest projects will be displayed; and a Fest, where participants can let loose with art and music. Independent Satellite Events are being organised across Europe and beyond, including the 1st International (NEB Satellite) Event of the Minority Report Project.

The goal? Reimagining our living spaces and exploring how citizens and local authorities can help shape this transformation.

NEB and its core values

NEB is about making our communities more sustainable, inclusive, accessible, and affordable.  NEB spurs democratic action, encouraging civil society, businesses, and innovators to come together and change entire neighbourhoods, awakening participants to their own agency and the power of co-creation.

NEB includes a strong grassroots movement with hundreds of community projects across Europe. It’s mobilising funds, research, and on-the-ground action, producing a cultural explosion of sustainable shared spaces.

Beautiful. Sustainable. Together. This is the New European Bauhaus.

The Minority Report NEB Satellite Event

The Minority Report Project is organising a New European Bauhaus (NEB) Satellite Event “Co-creating Green & Climate Resilient Cities”, with contributions from the MULTICARE, MULTICLIMACT, CLIMRES, RETIME, CARMINE, MAIA, and GreenInCities projects. The event will take place on 9 June 2026 in Delft, The Netherlands.

Bringing together a diverse and transdisciplinary audience — including local authorities, urban planners, architects, civil society organisations, researchers, students, EU project partners, and members of the NEB community — the event will showcase innovative approaches to climate-resilient urban regeneration.

Participating projects will address key topics such as nature-based solutions, low-carbon modular construction, participatory governance, and people-centred digital decision-support tools. The programme is organised around three thematic sessions, each introduced by short project contributions and followed by moderated dialogue:

• Inclusion & Co-creation for Resilient Communities – exploring how participatory approaches engage and empower citizens and vulnerable groups in shaping climate-resilient cities.
• Resilient Places: Nature, Buildings & Identity – examining how natural systems, resilient building design, and human experience contribute to climate-adaptive environments.
• Tools, Technologies & Systemic Approaches for Future-Proof Urban Transformation – showcasing digital tools, construction innovations, and integrated frameworks that support long-term, life-cycle adaptation.

The event reflects the core values of the New European Bauhaus by reconnecting with nature, fostering a sense of belonging, and prioritising the places and people that need it most. An optional guided site visit to The Green Village at TU Delft — a living laboratory for sustainable innovation — will highlight blue-green infrastructure as a model for climate adaptation that is both functional and aesthetically valuable.

The event is hosted with the support of TU Delft and local partners, leveraging their technical expertise, educational reach, and proximity to real-life innovation environments.

Agenda

10:30 – 11:00
Arrival & Welcome

11:00 – 11:30
Opening Remarks
EC Project Officer & Policy Officer

11:30 – 12:20
Session 1 – Brief introduction to the NEB context | Co-creation for Inclusive and Climate-Ready Neighbourhoods
How participatory approaches engage and empower citizens in shaping climate-resilient cities
Moderated by Katharina Faradasch | Prospex Institute

12:20 – 13:10
Lunch Break

13:10 – 14:00
Session 2 – A Place-Based Approach for Holistic Resilience & Nature-Based Strategies in the Built Environment
How natural systems, resilient building design and human experience shape climate adaptive places
Moderated by Dimitra Xidous | Trinity College Dublin

14:00 – 14:50
Session 3 – Tools, Technologies & Frameworks for Future-Proof Urban Transformation
How digital tools, construction innovations, and integrated frameworks support long-term, life-cycle adaptation in practice
Moderated by Niall Buckley | Integrated Environmental Solutions

14:50 – 15:15
Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:45
Site Visit
Guided Tour (The Green Village, fieldlab voor duurzame innovatie)

Speakers

Session 1 – Co-creation for Inclusive and Climate-Ready Neighbourhoods
How participatory approaches engage and empower citizens in shaping climate-resilient cities.

• Gabrielle Froes | Minority Report Project
Co-creation framework & inclusive stakeholder engagement
• Eylul Aksekili | RETIME Project
Supporting public strategic engagement through targeted communication and targeted local empowerment
• Max Beihofer | CARMINE Project
Leipzig Case Study Area: climate resilience, adaptation measures and socio-economic impacts

Session 2 – A Place-Based Approach for Holistic Resilience & Nature-Based Strategies in the Built Environment
How natural systems, resilient building design and human experience shape climate adaptive places.

• Thomas Grey | Minority Report Project
Human-centred resilience & identity of place
• Fiona Demeur | GreenInCities Project
Focus on Nature-based Strategies
• Simona Bianchi | MULTICARE Project
Focus on low-carbon modular building solutions

Session 3 – Tools, Technologies & Frameworks for Future-Proof Urban Transformation
How digital tools, construction innovations, and integrated frameworks support long-term, life-cycle adaptation in practice.

• Niall Buckley | Minority Report Project
People-centred digital tools
• Juan Pablo Aguilar-López | MULTICLIMACT Project
Monitoring and early warning technologies for flood resilient infrastructure
• Moatasim Mahmoud | CLIMRES Project
Developed VR Training for Fire Evacuation
• Andrea Geyer-Scholz | MAIA Project
The MAIA Marketplace

Location

Address:
Delft University of Technology (Van Den Broekweg 4), 2628 CR Delft

The Green Village: accelerator of innovation for a sustainable future

Researchers, students, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and government bodies work every day at The Green Village on the innovation challenges of today and tomorrow. The focus is on three themes: Sustainable building and renovation, Future energy system, and Climate-adaptive city.

A sustainable future requires innovative ideas and new, usable methods and techniques. At The Green Village, knowledge institutions, businesses, governments, and citizens research, test, and improve innovations that contribute to making neighborhoods energy-efficient, climate-resilient, and circular. In the heart of the TU Delft Campus, you will find our regulation-free “open-air laboratory” with a focus on the built environment, where we test at the neighborhood, street, and building levels. With access to the TU Delft innovation ecosystem, science is always close at hand. People live, work, and learn at The Green Village.

The relaxed regulatory status makes it possible to try out concepts that cannot simply be tested elsewhere. Experimenting in a real-life environment with residents and other users keeps you sharp and ensures that after a test period at The Green Village, you are ready for the next step: the outside world.

Registration

Interested in joining the discussion on inclusive and climate-ready neighbourhoods?

This event will bring together EU projects, researchers, and urban innovation practitioners to exchange experiences and explore solutions for more resilient and inclusive cities. The programme includes interactive sessions and a site visit. We encourage you to register early to secure your participation as places are limited and expected to fill quickly.

➡ Register here to secure your place!

• Registration is required (no registration fee);
• Limited number of seats available;
• Registrations are handled on a first-come, first-served basis;
• Once capacity is reached, participants will be placed on a waiting list.