Connect local communities to new ideas
Connect NEB supports community-rooted organisations testing ideas, participatory methods, living labs and new forms of local governance inspired by NEB values.
EIT Community New European Bauhaus
EURAN NEB — CONNECT / CO-CREATE
Call closure date · 2026-09-30, 17:00 CET
COUNTDOWN
01 · What the call wants
The opportunity in brief
Co-create visible place-based transformation
Co-create NEB supports partnerships between communities, municipalities and other local actors delivering improvements in neighbourhoods and public spaces.
Move from participation to implementation
Projects translate participation into locally embedded, sustainable, inclusive and beautiful action, with the capacity to generate learning and longer-term impact.
02 · What EURAN proposes
ART CLUBS AS LOCAL CULTURAL HUBS FOR PLACE-BASED PARTICIPATION
EURAN activates established art communities as local connectors between residents, artists, galleries, cultural venues and neighbourhood environments. The model begins with cultural communities that already exist rather than constructing a network from zero. Local art clubs identify people, creative resources and places through which participation becomes visible and operational. The model can operate as a community-led Connect NEB prototype or within a Co-create NEB partnership bringing together a municipality and complementary local actors.
03 · Why EURAN
Relevant foundations already exist
Specialised art-community experience
EURAN has longstanding experience working with organised art communities and understands their capacity to connect people, artists, exhibitions and cultural activity.
Art & Design 2day
A substantial existing body of artistic and design material provides resources for local activation, interpretation and participatory activities.
COS™ instruments
EURAN's cultural frameworks structure relationships between cultural participation, place and local value.
European network architecture
EURAN connects local experimentation with a wider European framework for learning, exchange and dissemination.
04 · The partnership
Defined capabilities — not symbolic association
Community / art-club organisation
For Connect NEB, an established community-rooted organisation provides the local foundation for a participatory prototype.
Municipality or region
For Co-create NEB, a municipality, region or affiliated eligible entity forms part of the consortium and anchors the proposition territorially.
Local artists and cultural venues
Artistic practice, cultural knowledge, spaces and community relationships bring the local cultural environment into the project.
Place / participation expertise
Design, facilitation and research capabilities document, test and evaluate the local model and its potential for transfer.
05 · Why this matters
From existing cultural communities to place-based action
Existing cultural communities become an operational resource for participation rather than a peripheral audience. Municipalities gain access to an organised cultural layer connecting neighbourhood transformation with residents, artists and local cultural life. The initial prototype remains focused and manageable; the resulting model establishes the basis for replication.
The cultural network exists. The NEB framework creates the opportunity to activate it locally.
06 · Participation
EURAN NEB — CONNECT / CO-CREATE is now being structured
The project configuration is now being developed for the 30 September 2026 call. Participation is established where local capability, eligibility and strategic relevance converge. No organisation is presented as a partner before its role and participation are agreed.