This is the first multi-year budgetary support tool for the New European Bauhaus, established for the period 2025-2027. It is based on the Horizon Europe 2025-2027 Strategic Plan, which sets out the European Union’s strategic guidelines for research and innovation.
Its purpose is therefore to promote innovative solutions that revitalize built environments, especially neighborhoods, using a design approach that promotes sustainability, inclusion, and beauty.
Essentially, and in the long term, the NEB Facility seeks to provide stability for investment and creativity, so that projects aligned with NEB values can have a real impact on local communities. This explains why it coordinates with other European programs such as Horizon and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to maximize technical and financial support.
NEB Facility Components
It has two main components: Research and Innovation (R&I); Implementation (roll-out component). The first is intended to develop ready-to-use solutions, with “co-creation” between different disciplines.
The second aims to deploy these solutions and provide technical assistance, taking advantage of other EU programs. Each of them has €120 million until 2027.
First call for proposals. Horizon NEB 2025
The first call for proposals from the NEB Facility, open until November 12, 2025, focused on three areas of work: Participation; Entrepreneurship and Business; and Urban Regeneration. It included 11 calls for proposals, with budgets ranging from €2.5 million to €12 million.
The fundamental requirements that projects had to meet were the application of NEB values (Sustainability, Beauty, and Inclusion), as well as following a participatory and transdisciplinary approach (in other words, promoting co-creation between professionals in architecture, design, the arts, and engineering, and collaboration between citizens, entrepreneurs, and public institutions).
This first Horizon NEB call has focused on the Research and Innovation (R&I) component, which is why the Spanish National Contact Point for the NEB, located in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, has collaborated in its monitoring with the Center for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI) of the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities.
Looking ahead to 2026, the European Commission has announced that the next calls for proposals for the NEB Facility will focus particularly on the roll-out component. In this way, the initiatives proposed in the field of regenerative urban design and affordable housing solutions using biomaterials, which will be studied and analyzed in depth during 2025, will be able to be implemented efficiently through direct application in built environments.
