Shaping liveable futures: EUniWell showcases well-being at the New European Bauhaus Festival
How can universities contribute to places where people and the planet thrive? This question connected EUniWell’s participation in the 2026 New European Bauhaus (NEB) Festival in Brussels, held from 9 to 13 June 2026, with the Alliance’s mission and goals.
The New European Bauhaus (NEB) brings together sustainability, inclusivity, and quality of experience to shape the places where people live, learn, and work. At the NEB Festival in Brussels, held from 9 to 13 June 2026, EUniWell presented the Alliance’s work in a wider European setting, connecting its academic community with practitioners, policymakers and citizens working towards more sustainable, liveable environments.
The participation built on EUniWell’s NEB Lecture Series, held online from 13 to 28 April. Across five lectures, experts from partner universities explored how higher education institutions can apply NEB principles and engage in civic initiatives to help shape more liveable cities and thriving rural regions.
The series addressed topics ranging from urban heat islands to sustainable transitions, bio-based materials and timber construction, as well as European urban policy and transformative city design. It also highlighted the connections between environmental change and well-being: for example, how sustainable building materials, climate-resilient design, and participatory urban planning can improve both ecological outcomes and people’s quality of life.
As part of the series, three students were selected to represent EUniWell at the Festival. Their participation turned the learning programme into a practical opportunity for exchange, allowing students to bring their perspectives into a European forum. At the EUniWell stand, poster presentations gave students and researchers a platform to showcase projects and ideas from across the Alliance. The session made academic work accessible to a wider audience, encouraged dialogue with Festival visitors, and showed how university education and research can contribute to NEB goals of sustainability, inclusivity and aesthetics.
The experience also lays the groundwork for a more continuous EUniWell presence at future editions of the Festival and reinforced the value of continued cooperation across EUniWell’s member institutions on NEB-related themes. Building on the momentum of the Lecture Series and the Festival, the Alliance can further develop joint work on sustainable urban development, inclusive public spaces, climate adaptation, and the links between environmental change and well-being.
Further information
EUniWell NEB Lecture Series: https://www.euniwell.eu/news/new-european-bauhaus-meets-euniwell-lecture-series-2026
New European Bauhaus Festival 2026: https://new-european-bauhaus.europa.eu/festival_en
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