Festival of the New European Bauhaus, 9 - 13 June 2026 in Brussels
For the third edition of the Festival of the New European Bauhaus, communities, creators and changemakers will come together to celebrate creativity, explore innovative ideas and shape a more inclusive, sustainable and vibrant future.
The biennial Festival showcases the best practices of the New European Bauhaus, the European Commission initiative that brings the clean transition to our built environments and improves everyday life for everyone. It aims to inspire communities to reimagine spaces, design better living environments and drive sustainability and inclusivity.
The 2026 edition of the NEB Festival will focus on Democratic Engagement, showing how citizens can be involved in shaping their communities, and on Affordable Housing, the foundation for strong, inclusive societies.
Explore the Festival of the New European Bauhaus
The Festival of the New European Bauhaus takes over Brussels with three pillars of activities: Forum, Fair, and Fest. In parallel, Satellite Events bring the movement to local communities in Europe and across the world.
- Forum: Discuss the future of Europe through live debates on affordable, sustainable and inclusive living.
- Fair: Explore innovative concepts and prototypes that are already transforming Europe. Two Irish projects will be showcased:
- Social factory: The architecture of connection. Social Factory Limerick presents a new civic building typology that transforms underused industrial and urban spaces into vibrant hubs for connection, creativity, wellbeing, and enterprise. Integrating Social, Work, Health, and Market domains in one architectural system, this embeds preventive public-health science, participatory governance, and circular design in everyday life.
- THRIVE: Mainstreaming NEB in cohesion policy. Southern Assembly Region, Waterford presents a transformative system in Ireland that mainstreams NEB in Cohesion Policy. The scheme funds the development of integrated urban strategies and the regeneration of vacant and derelict heritage buildings. It is community-led and citizen-centred to create vibrant, sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful urban centres. The overall vision is to restore heritage spaces as living community assets, enabling urban centres to function as thriving hubs where people can live, work, visit, and connect.
- Fest: Celebrate the movement through music, dance, art, and hands-on creative workshops.
- Satellite Events: Discover events showcasing NEB values across Europe and beyond in this programme of in-person, hybrid, and online events. Includes topics such as: Are we integrating the Inclusion Principle into the NEB? Matchmaking Event Exploring European Funding Opportunities'; Sustainability Forum for Emerging Practices; Islands of hope: democratic, community-led initiatives to foster sustainable innovations.