The NEB-STEAM LABS Action Network aims to support European cities in implementing innovative, integrated and participatory approaches that connect education, creativity, technology and entrepreneurship, in line with the principles of the New European Bauhaus (NEB).

Alba Iulia Municipality is preparing an URBACT Action Planning Network focused on transforming cycling strategies into real, connected, and scalable urban mobility solutions.

Main topic: Dual-use urban spaces for climate resilience: rethinking sports and green areas as multifunctional infrastructures that combine everyday wellbeing uses with climate adaptation functions such as flood management, heat mitigation, and ecological regeneration.
• Rethinking sports and green areas as dual-use urban infrastructures.
• Positioning traditional public spaces into strategic assets for climate adaptation and everyday urban life.

Main Objective: To present the project and its best practices, exporting the concept to other regions of Europe that can learn from our experience.

Context: Promoting cultural democracy, cultural heritage and artistic creation and circulation through music.

European classrooms are facing unprecedented linguistic fragmentation. The Josefa de Óbidos Schools Group (AEJO) exemplifies this reality: 193 migrant students from 35 nationalities, with many languages spoken by only one or two students. This scenario makes traditional human mediation impossible to scale, resulting in real-time comprehension barriers, inaccessible teaching materials, and biased assessments that penalize students for their language proficiency rather than their actual knowledge.