Are you building an impact-driven start-up that wants to grow — without compromising your values? Apply now for Catalyse NEB 2026, the EIT Community NEB accelerator for ventures shaping a sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful future.

The New European Bauhaus (NEB) is where innovation meets culture, design, and sustainability. It’s Europe’s creative engine for turning the Green Deal into everyday reality — rethinking how we build our cities, produce materials, and shape communities. The EIT Community NEB aims to bridge the gap between science and technology on the one hand, and arts and culture on the other, promoting business through start-ups, ideation and education, as well as citizen education and engagement. With that purpose, EIT Community NEB engages with European innovators to overcome fragmentations in the European innovation landscape, works together with universities and stakeholders in the identification of problems and solutions, and ensures civil society engagement in the NEB movement.

Catalyse NEB will support 20 NEB-minded businesses that put at the core social innovation as key to deliver systems change and new ways of living together. Making available NEB solutions for end-users, cities and regions, and other companies is essential to develop successful long-term solutions that match the needs of the wider community. By supporting NEB-minded businesses, Catalyse NEB promotes a true synergy of innovation, business, creativity, and design, improving citizens quality of life and driving green and digital transformations.

Eligible companies should be in the pre-seed, seed, or, in exceptional cases, Series A stage. Applicants should have raised no more than EUR 1,000,000 in total funding at the time of applying. Must be incorporated after 1st January 2021.