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New European Bauhaus funding: turn sustainable, inclusive and beautiful ideas into EU-funded projects

The New European Bauhaus (NEB) connects Europe’s green transition with the way people live, use buildings and experience their neighbourhoods. Its goal is practical: to make places more sustainable, inclusive and beautiful, while involving the people who use them in the process.
For organisations developing solutions in urban regeneration, construction, housing, circularity, social innovation, cultural heritage, public space or new investment models, the New European Bauhaus Facility opens a new route to EU funding.
Zabala Innovation helps companies, cities, universities, research organisations and other public and private actors find the right NEB funding opportunity, shape a competitive project and take it from an initial idea to a funded European programme.

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New European Bauhaus at a glance

🎯 Programme: New European Bauhaus / New European Bauhaus Facility
🔬 Main R&I funding programme: Horizon Europe
📅 Facility period: 2025–2027
💶 R&I budget: Around €360 million in Horizon Europe R&I funding is planned for the NEB Facility across 2025–2027.
🏦 Additional deployment funding: at least a comparable level from other EU programmes, complemented by national and private funding
📢 2026 Horizon Europe call: €101.1 million available under the main 2026 Horizon Europe NEB call.
⏰ 2026 call deadline: 1 December 2026, 17:00 Brussels time
🏙️ Main project areas: neighbourhood transformation, sustainable and circular construction, affordable housing, social inclusion, citizen participation, regenerative design and innovative financing
🌱 Core NEB values: sustainable, inclusive and beautiful
🤝 Working principles: participatory process, multi-level engagement and transdisciplinary approach

New European Bauhaus calls in 2026

Participation, social inclusion and local democracy

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-01

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-01

Addressing homelessness through housing-led approaches aligned with the New European Bauhaus
Indicative topic budget: €12.6 million
Expected EU contribution per project: around €6.3 million

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-02

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-02

Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods
Indicative topic budget: €10 million
Expected EU contribution per project: around €5 million

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03

Understanding inhabitants' experiences of neighbourhoods to support their health and well-being
Indicative topic budget: €15 million
Expected EU contribution per project: around €5 million

Circular and regenerative built environment

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-REGEN-01

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-REGEN-01

Sustainable, inclusive, affordable and beautiful solutions for thermal comfort in buildings
Indicative topic budget: €12 million
Expected EU contribution per project: around €4 million

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-REGEN-02

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-REGEN-02

Advancing sustainable maintenance and repair measures for existing buildings
Indicative topic budget: €10 million
Expected EU contribution per project: around €5 million

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-REGEN-03

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-REGEN-03

Innovative solutions for the sustainable and beautiful use of vertical space
Indicative topic budget: €15 million
Expected EU contribution per project: around €5 million

Funding and business models

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-01

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-01

Structurally addressing homelessness through coordinated social infrastructure and services in neighbourhoods
Indicative topic budget: €10.5 million
Expected EU contribution per project: around €3.5 million

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-02

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-02

Understanding capital market dynamics for increased investment in New European Bauhaus projects in neighbourhoods
Indicative topic budget: €7 million
Expected EU contribution per project: around €3.5 million

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-03

HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-03

Approaches to reuse vacant, obsolete or underutilised spaces
Indicative topic budget: €9 million
Expected EU contribution per project: around €4.5 million

What is the New European Bauhaus?

The New European Bauhaus is a European Commission initiative that brings the European Green Deal into buildings, neighbourhoods and everyday life.

It asks a broader question than how to make a building or city greener. A New European Bauhaus project also considers whether a solution improves people’s experience of a place, whether it is inclusive and accessible, how it reflects its cultural and local context, and whether people affected by the transformation have a meaningful role in it.

Three values sit at its core:

New European Bauhaus (NEB )

  • Sustainable

    NEB projects should contribute to environmental sustainability, circularity and, at their highest level of ambition, regeneration and reconnection with nature.

  • Inclusive

    Solutions should improve accessibility, affordability and participation while considering people and groups with different needs.

  • Beautiful

    Beauty in NEB goes beyond appearance. It includes the quality of people's physical, sensory, cultural and emotional experience of a place.

What is the New European Bauhaus Facility?

The New European Bauhaus Facility is the dedicated multiannual funding instrument created to support the implementation of the New European Bauhaus. Running from 2025 to 2027, it covers the path from research and innovation to deployment. Its Research and Innovation component is funded through Horizon Europe. A separate roll-out component connects NEB projects with other European, national and private sources of finance so that solutions can move beyond demonstration and reach wider implementation. This makes the Facility particularly relevant for organisations that need to combine technological innovation with social, environmental, spatial and economic impact. For 2026 and 2027, its Horizon Europe R&I component is organised around three destinations.

This area looks at the human dimension of neighbourhood transformation.

Projects may address issues including:

  • Affordable and inclusive housing
  • Homelessness
  • Participatory design
  • Health and well-being
  • Citizen engagement
  • Cultural identity
  • Local democracy
  • Social cohesion
  • Co-governance
  • Intergenerational neighbourhoods

This destination focuses on the physical transformation of buildings and neighbourhoods.

It covers subjects such as:

  • Low-carbon and circular construction
  • Renovation and repair
  • Thermal comfort
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Bio-based materials
  • Regenerative design
  • Cultural heritage buildings
  • Efficient use of existing buildings and infrastructure
  • Vertical space
  • Biodiversity and climate resilience

The third destination deals with a question that can determine whether urban innovation survives beyond a pilot: how it is financed and scaled.

It includes:

  • Investment models for NEB projects
  • Place-based impact investment
  • Community investment and ownership
  • Reuse of vacant or underused spaces
  • Business models for renovation
  • Social infrastructure
  • Long-term neighbourhood planning
  • Mobilisation of private capital

What New European Bauhaus funding is available in 2027?

The published 2027 work programme continues the same three destinations under HORIZON-NEB-2027-01, with an indicative budget of €93.76 million.

Topics cover:

  • co-governance and citizen participation;
  • intergenerational neighbourhoods;
  • new combinations of scientific and local knowledge;
  • sustainable construction materials and techniques;
  • healthier construction and renovation sites;
  • regeneration around rail and motorway corridors;
  • modular construction;
  • collective community investment and ownership;
  • long-term neighbourhood planning.

A further €15 million joint NEB–Soil Mission call, HORIZON-NEB-2027-02, will support solutions to reduce soil sealing through sustainable urban and territorial design.

Organisations considering a 2027 application can therefore use 2026 to develop the concept, validate the consortium and strengthen the evidence behind the proposed solution.

Who can apply for New European Bauhaus funding?

Companies and SMEs

Companies and SMEs

developing innovative materials, construction solutions, digital technologies, services or business models.

Cities, regional authorities

Cities, regional authorities

testing new approaches to neighbourhood regeneration, housing, public space, participation and climate resilience.

Universities and research organisations

Universities and research organisations

providing technical, environmental, social sciences or humanities expertise.

Architects, urban planners

Architects, urban planners

contributing directly to the transformation of the built environment.

Social economy organisations, NGOs

Social economy organisations, NGOs

working on inclusion, housing, citizen engagement or local services.

Cultural and creative organisations

Cultural and creative organisations

bringing expertise in arts, cultural heritage, design and place-making.

Investors, financial institutions and real-estate actors

Investors, financial institutions and real-estate actors

developing or testing new funding and investment models.

Is your project really a New European Bauhaus project?

  • Is the project sustainable?

    Does it produce measurable environmental benefits and consider circularity, climate, biodiversity or resource use?

  • Is it inclusive?

    Does it address accessibility, affordability, equality or the needs of groups that may otherwise be excluded?

  • Does it improve the quality of the place or experience?

    Can the project demonstrate architectural, cultural, spatial or experiential quality rather than treating aesthetics as decoration?

  • Are users and local stakeholders genuinely involved?

    NEB expects participation to influence the project, not simply communicate its results.

  • Does the consortium combine disciplines?

    Many calls require technical expertise to work alongside social sciences, humanities, architecture, planning, culture or other relevant disciplines.

  • Can the approach work beyond one demonstration site?

    Replication, transferability, uptake and longer-term financing matter.

What types of projects fit the New European Bauhaus?

A strong NEB proposal normally combines several dimensions that are often treated separately in other programmes.

A construction project, for example, may need to demonstrate not only energy and carbon performance but also affordability, architectural quality, local identity, user involvement and long-term social value.

A city-led project may combine spatial planning with citizen participation, nature-based solutions, cultural actors, digital tools and new forms of governance.

A new business model may need to show financial viability alongside measurable environmental, social, cultural and aesthetic value.

Potential NEB projects include:

  • regeneration of neighbourhoods and public spaces;
  • sustainable renovation of buildings;
  • solutions for affordable and inclusive housing;
  • new circular or bio-based construction solutions;
  • adaptive reuse of vacant buildings and infrastructure;
  • neighbourhood climate adaptation;
  • solutions that improve biodiversity or reconnect neighbourhoods with nature;
  • participatory urban planning and co-governance;
  • cultural heritage and place-based innovation;
  • new investment structures for sustainable urban projects;
  • community ownership models;
  • digital tools for neighbourhood planning, participation or building management.

How Zabala helps with New European Bauhaus funding

A good NEB proposal begins before the writing starts. Our teams work with organisations to determine whether their project genuinely fits the programme, where it can compete and what is missing from the concept.

Funding strategy and call selection

We analyse the project against the relevant NEB Facility and wider EU funding landscape to identify the most credible route to finance.

This may include Horizon Europe as well as complementary opportunities under programmes and instruments supporting regional development, climate, cities, the environment, digitalisation, culture or deployment.

Project concept and NEB alignment

We help translate an initial technical or urban project into a proposal that addresses the complete logic of the call: expected outcomes, impacts, NEB values, working principles, European added value and exploitation potential.

Consortium building

NEB projects can require an unusually broad combination of partners.

Zabala Innovation supports partner identification and consortium design, helping bring together companies, research organisations, municipalities, social actors, cultural organisations, users and other stakeholders where the call requires them.

Proposal preparation

We support the development of competitive Horizon Europe proposals, from the initial concept through the Excellence, Impact and Implementation sections.

The work includes project structuring, work packages, impact pathways, risk analysis, exploitation, communication, budget planning and consistency checks across the proposal.

Impact, exploitation and communication

A NEB project needs to demonstrate what changes if it succeeds.

We help define measurable outcomes, impact pathways, stakeholder engagement, exploitation routes and communication activities suited to the communities, markets and public authorities involved.

Project management

Funding is only the beginning.

Zabala Innovation also supports funded projects with administrative, financial and technical coordination, reporting, communication, exploitation and innovation management.

+1,100

European proposals between 2021 and 2026

40%

success rate (EU average rate of 13%)

250

U proposals submitted yearly

€7B+

return since 2021.

We turn your idea into European funding

FAQ about New European Bauhaus funding

  • What is the New European Bauhaus?

    The New European Bauhaus is a European Commission initiative that combines sustainability, inclusion and quality of experience in the transformation of buildings, public spaces and neighbourhoods. Projects are expected to apply these values together with participatory, multi-level and transdisciplinary ways of working.

  • What is the New European Bauhaus Facility?

    The New European Bauhaus Facility is a dedicated EU funding instrument running from 2025 to 2027. It supports the transformation of neighbourhoods through a Horizon Europe research and innovation component and a roll-out component linked to other European, national and private funding sources.

  • How much funding is available through the NEB Facility?

    The Facility envisages around €360 million from Horizon Europe for research and innovation across 2025–2027, together with at least a comparable level of investment through other EU programmes and additional national and private funding.

    The main HORIZON-NEB-2026-01 call has an indicative budget of €101.1 million.

  • What is the deadline for the 2026 New European Bauhaus call?

    The HORIZON-NEB-2026-01 call opened on 5 May 2026 and closes on 1 December 2026 at 17:00 Brussels time.

  • Is the New European Bauhaus part of Horizon Europe?

    The New European Bauhaus is a broader European Commission initiative. Its dedicated NEB Facility includes a Research and Innovation component funded through Horizon Europe, while its roll-out component can draw on other European, national and private sources.

  • Who can apply for New European Bauhaus funding?

    Depending on the call, applicants can include companies, SMEs, universities, research organisations, cities, public authorities, architects, designers, construction organisations, social economy actors, cultural organisations, NGOs and other relevant entities. Horizon Europe topics normally require an international consortium.

  • Do companies qualify for New European Bauhaus calls?

    Yes, companies can participate where they meet the conditions of the relevant call. Particularly relevant fields include sustainable construction, circular materials, digital solutions, housing, climate resilience, urban technologies, services and new investment or business models.

  • Can cities and municipalities apply for NEB funding?

    Yes. Local and regional public authorities are particularly relevant to many New European Bauhaus projects because neighbourhood transformation, public space, housing, citizen participation and urban planning are central themes of the programme.

  • What makes a project eligible for New European Bauhaus funding?

    There is no single NEB eligibility test for all funding opportunities. Applicants must first comply with the formal conditions of the specific call. A strong NEB project should also demonstrate how sustainability, inclusion and quality of experience are integrated into its concept and how participatory, multi-level and transdisciplinary approaches are applied.

  • What are the three New European Bauhaus values?

    The three core values are sustainability, inclusion and beauty or quality of experience. They are intended to work together rather than as separate project features.

  • What are the New European Bauhaus working principles?

    The three working principles are participatory process, multi-level engagement and transdisciplinary approach.

  • What is the NEB Compass?

    The New European Bauhaus Compass is a European Commission framework for assessing and developing projects according to NEB values and working principles. It provides different levels of ambition and helps project developers understand how closely a concept aligns with the NEB approach.

  • How can I find the right NEB call for my project?

    Start with the project’s problem, maturity, target users, expected impact and type of organisation rather than selecting a call based only on keywords. ZABALA can assess the project against current NEB, Horizon Europe and complementary EU funding opportunities and identify the strongest route before proposal development begins.

  • How can Zabala Innovation support a New European Bauhaus application?

    Zabala Innovation can support the full funding process: opportunity assessment, call selection, project positioning, consortium development, proposal preparation, impact and exploitation planning, budgeting and subsequent project management.

  • Should I start preparing a New European Bauhaus proposal before the call opens?

    Yes. Projects with complex demonstrators or international consortia benefit from preparation well before the deadline. Early work allows applicants to validate the concept, identify missing partners, collect evidence and ensure that the project addresses the NEB values and the expected outcomes of the call rather than adapting an existing proposal at the last minute.