Become part of the 2024 cohort of the EIT Community New European Bauhaus (NEB) Catalyse programme, a start-up accelerator for ventures working to implement NEB values across Europe.

The New European Bauhaus is an environmental, social and cultural initiative that is guided by three core values:

• Sustainability: from climate goals, to circularity, zero pollution, and biodiversity
• Aesthetics: from design beyond functionality, to quality of experience, lifestyle and well-being;
• Inclusion: valorising diversity, equality for all, accessibility, and affordability.

Most encouraged to apply are those European start-ups trying to drive change in climate, cities, transport, industry, and food systems. Winners of the call will receive EUR 50 000 from the EIT and will benefit from NEB trainings, leadership coaching, business mentoring, and access to Europe's largest innovation network.

Total budget: 1 400 000 EUR

Applications are open until 4 December 2023.

The range of EIT Community NEB supported activities includes a list of challenges thematically arranged across four Thematic Axes and sub-challenges. Applicants’ products and services must address at least one of the NEB Thematic Axes, indicating one or more sub-challenges in their local ecosystem, and demonstrate their potential to scale-up.

In addition, the products and services must clearly address an identified social challenge, ideally determined within a specific social group who would benefit from the existence of such products or services.

The four Thematic Axes are:

• Reconnecting with nature
• Regaining a sense of belonging
• Prioritising the places and people that need it the most
• Fostering long-term, life-cycle and integrated thinking in the industrial ecosystem

The programme is divided into three core pillars: 1. business, 2. NEB, and 3. communications. The services provided are in the form of interactive workshops, one-on-one mentoring on both the design and business dimensions, and in-person and online networking events, with the aim to assess and further develop both the business structure of the company and its alignment with NEB core values and principles within each organisation.

Each of the activities mentioned above will be deployed in the form of meetings, workshops and events that will be carried online or in person at the EIT Community’s discretion. External visibility and networking opportunities are guaranteed during the full length of the programme. The EIT Community NEB reserves the right to alter certain services provided based on the assessed needs to the start-ups selected in the cohort.

In addition to the above services, each company will also receive a grant of EUR 20 000 to be used for travel, participation in events, and other goods and services needed for dissemination and exploitation purposes.

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Source: EIT