Develop innovative approaches to spatial design
The topic seeks new participatory and transdisciplinary approaches for designing neighbourhood public spaces for diverse users.
Horizon Europe · New European Bauhaus
EURAN ADP — PARTICIPATION & NEIGHBOURHOOD DESIGN
Application deadline · 2026-12-01
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What the call wants
The opportunity in brief
Work with communities and different disciplines
Projects should integrate inhabitants, spatial-design expertise, social sciences and humanities and other relevant actors.
Demonstrate in at least three neighbourhoods
The approach must be demonstrated in at least three neighbourhoods in urban, peri-urban and rural areas, located in different Member States and/or Associated Countries, with plans for replication and uptake.
Gender, age and identity patterns of use
The topic requires assessment of how spatial design shapes gendered, age-appropriate and identity-related patterns of use, including mobility, safety, sense of security and access to public and private spaces.
Inclusive and security-aware design methods
Proposals should integrate diverse user perspectives and may use approaches such as research-by-design, security-by-design and life-centric design to support inclusive, accessible and deliberative public-space transformation.
Climate, water, civil security & biodiversity
The spatial-design approach must address climate resilience, water resilience, civil security and biodiversity of public space, together with the safety, well-being and security of users.
Beauty, aesthetics & multisensory perception
The approach must assess users’ and communities’ multisensory perception of public space, including beauty and aesthetics. This creates a direct entry point for EURAN’s art-led and perception-based methods.
SSH expertise is required
The topic requires effective contributions from social sciences and humanities disciplines, with the involvement of SSH experts and institutions.
Take-up, skills needs & gaps
The take-up plan must assess application to other areas of the green transition, including water-resilient planning, public-service design and procurement, and identify skills needs and gaps.
NEB Hub engagement budget
At least 0.8% of the project budget must be allocated to engagement with the Horizon Europe-funded New European Bauhaus hub for results and impact.
What EURAN proposes
ARTISTIC INTELLIGENCE FOR PARTICIPATORY NEIGHBOURHOOD DESIGN
EURAN proposes an art-and-design-led participation framework in which artistic practice becomes a practical instrument for understanding how people perceive, use and value neighbourhood spaces. EURAN ADP would combine artistic observation, participatory design, visualisation, community engagement and evaluation, then test the approach in multiple neighbourhoods. Art clubs and local cultural communities may provide grassroots access and cultural intelligence, while municipalities and spatial-design partners provide the formal territorial framework.
Why EURAN
Relevant foundations already exist
Architectural and urban-planning foundation
EURAN's professional background in architecture and town planning supports a direct understanding of spatial design and territorial transformation.
COS™ instruments
EURAN's cultural operating concepts can provide a framework for linking cultural participation, place quality and strategic decision-making.
Artistic networks
EURAN can connect artistic practice with community-level cultural activity and local knowledge.
Existing project concepts
EURAN's portfolio provides starting propositions that can be adapted into research and demonstration work packages.
Who EURAN is seeking
Defined capabilities — not symbolic association
Research coordinator
A Horizon-capable university or research organisation able to lead scientific methodology and project management.
Municipal / territorial partners
At least three suitable neighbourhood environments in different eligible countries, with committed local authorities or equivalent territorial actors.
Architects / urban designers
Experts in spatial planning, public-space design and participatory processes.
Artists and cultural organisations
Practitioners able to use artistic methods for community participation, perception and co-design.
SSH / evaluation experts
Experts in participation, social research, human experience, inclusion and impact assessment.
Why this is interesting
A concrete opportunity for participants
Municipalities and research partners gain a concrete method for making participatory neighbourhood design more perceptive, inclusive and culturally informed. Artists gain a substantive role in spatial research rather than a decorative one. The three-site structure also creates a credible basis for comparison, replication and European learning.
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Participation
Start with a conversation
Expression of interest does not constitute partnership. No organisation is presented as a partner until eligibility, role and participation have been discussed and agreed.
Operation Renaissance
THE RETURN OF ALEXANDRE MIMOGLOU — ARCHITECT, URBANIST & ENTREPRENEUR
This operation extends the Renaissance from art and design into architecture, neighbourhoods, public space and urban transformation. It explicitly expands Alexandre Mimoglou's architecture and urban-planning background as an operating professional field.
OPERATION RENAISSANCE
HORIZON NEB — ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM RENAISSANCE
Project expands architecture, urban planning, public space, waterfronts and real-estate transformation as central EURAN professional territories.
EU Call Universe
HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-02 provides the European research and demonstration framework for participatory spatial design in multiple real neighbourhoods.
Commercial Universe
EURAN can independently pursue paid architecture, urbanism, public-realm, waterfront, hospitality, marina and real-estate commissions. Commercial work remains separately financed.
Operation Renaissance 2026–27.
This initiative forms part of EURAN’s wider Global Growth architecture linking selected European cooperation with independent commercial development.
OPEN OPERATION RENAISSANCE →
CONNECTED EURAN INFRASTRUCTURE
THIS OPERATION DOES NOT STAND ALONE
The European proposal is one accelerator inside a wider commercial and intellectual system.
Operation Renaissance 2026–27
Master architecture: eight EU operations, eight commercial routes.
EURAN Projects
The project inventory connecting concepts, pilots, clients and European cooperation.
Constellation
EURAN's active intellectual platform from which selected concepts develop into projects and ventures.
Industries
SEA · LAND · SKY deployment environments and sector-specific commercial routes.
EURAN XPO™
Physical, hybrid and virtual cultural deployment across industry environments.
Art Production Systems™
Technical production, prototypes, manufacturing, quality control and deployment.