Call for Expressions of Interest, now closed
The second NEB Junction Stakeholder Assembly meets online in October and November 2026.
Two online sessions of three hours, open to the whole New European Bauhaus community and to people who had not been part of it before.
Call closed
The call for Expressions of Interest closed on Sunday 11 October 2026, at 23:59 CEST.
Thank you to everyone who applied. Every application is read by a person, and everyone who applied receives an answer by Wednesday 14 October, selected or not. No new Expressions of Interest can be accepted.
Call window
Closed on 11 October 2026
Open from 21 September to 11 October, 23:59 CEST
Format
Online
Two sessions of three hours, in the cohort you choose
Places
Around 40 per cohort
Up to 100 across the two cohorts
Applicants hear back
By 14 October 2026
Sent to everyone who applied, selected or not
Dates and cohorts
Two cohorts. You take part in one of them.
One cohort meets in the afternoon and one in the morning, so that people in different time zones and with different working hours can take part. Each cohort meets on two dates and you need to attend both, because the second session builds on the first.
Cohort Afternoon
Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 October 2026
14:00 to 17:00 CET
Cohort Morning
Thursday 5 and Friday 6 November 2026
09:30 to 12:30 CET
What happens next
The call closed on Sunday 11 October. This is what happens now.
1. Call closed
Sunday 11 October, 23:59 CEST. No new Expressions of Interest can be accepted. Thank you to everyone who applied.
2. We read them
Every application is read by a person. If something is unclear, we ask you before deciding. Places are confirmed in three rounds: two while the call was open, and a third on 13 October, when the remaining places are allocated and both cohorts are balanced.
3. You take part
Everyone receives an answer by 14 October. Confirmed participants receive a short preparation pack on Monday 19 October, one week before the first session.
If you are not selected
A waiting list stays open until 22 October. Whenever a place frees up, we contact the next person on the list.
Who it is for
Open to organisations in all five New European Bauhaus Community categories, and to individuals.
The New European Bauhaus Community registers organisations in five categories. The Assembly is open to all five, and to people who are not part of a registered organisation.
- Public authorities, at local, regional and national level
- Companies and businesses, in the built environment and in other sectors
- Nonprofit and nongovernmental organisations
- Umbrella organisations and networks
- Academic and research institutions
Individuals are welcome too: residents and neighbourhood groups, cultural and creative practitioners, students, and people who have never worked on a project funded by the European Union. You apply as an individual, not as an organisation.
Your link with the New European Bauhaus
You may have been at the first Assembly or at the Festival, be a member of the New European Bauhaus Community, a Partner, part of a Lab or a Local Chapter, part of an EU funded project, part of a grassroots initiative that works in the same direction, or in first contact with all of it. The form asked which applied to each applicant. None of them was a condition.
How places are allocated
The Assembly is balanced across three criteria. The form asked about each one, and places are allocated to keep that balance.
- Location
- Age
- Gender
Why this Assembly
Not a general conversation about the New European Bauhaus. The sessions are built around what the project is working on now.
NEB Junction is in its second phase, and its strands of work are already under way. Each of them carries questions the project cannot answer from inside itself. The Assembly is where those questions are put to the people the work is meant to serve, so that what you say arrives somewhere specific instead of into a general record.
The tools being built
What you would need to find, and to be able to do, and where what the project is building does not yet work the way it should for the people meant to use it.
What gets in the way
The barriers you meet, the gaps you see and the support that is missing, which shape what NEB Junction asks for at European level on behalf of the people doing this work.
The direction of travel
How the direction the project proposes reads from where you actually work, what it gets right, and what it leaves out.
What the Assembly does
Two sessions of three hours. What you say is reported at European level.
What comes out of the sessions feeds into what NEB Junction reports to the New European Bauhaus Facility and the European Commission.
What you receive afterwards
On Tuesday 17 November 2026 every participant receives a summary of what was said, where it was reported and what happens next. Session documentation does not name anyone who has not agreed to be named.
Key dates
From the opening of the call to the follow-up note.
The call opened
Monday 21 September 2026
The call closed
Sunday 11 October 2026, 23:59 CEST
Answers sent to all applicants
Wednesday 14 October 2026
The Assembly meets
26 and 27 October, 5 and 6 November 2026
| Mon 21 Sep 2026 | The call opened |
| While the call was open | First and second rounds of places confirmed, so that people confirmed early could block the dates |
| Sun 11 Oct 2026 | The call closed, 23:59 CEST |
| Tue 13 Oct 2026 | Third and final round: the remaining places are allocated and both cohorts are finalised |
| Wed 14 Oct 2026 | Answers sent to all applicants. Confirmed participants receive their cohort, both dates and the joining details |
| Mon 19 Oct 2026 | Preparation pack sent to confirmed participants |
| Mon 26 and Tue 27 Oct 2026 | Cohort Afternoon meets, 14:00 to 17:00 CET |
| Thu 5 and Fri 6 Nov 2026 | Cohort Morning meets, 09:30 to 12:30 CET |
| Tue 17 Nov 2026 | Participants receive the summary and follow-up note |
Questions
Now that the call has closed.
I applied. When do I hear back?
By Wednesday 14 October 2026. Everyone who applied receives an answer, selected or not. Confirmed participants receive their cohort, both dates and the joining details, and a short preparation pack on Monday 19 October.
I missed the deadline. Can I still apply?
No. The call closed on Sunday 11 October 2026 at 23:59 CEST and no new Expressions of Interest can be accepted. NEB Junction runs further sessions through the year, announced separately with an open sign up. Write to domenico.ds@demsoc.eu to hear about those.
Will I get the cohort I chose?
Your preference comes first. The form asked for your first choice and whether the other cohort would also work. If we need to move you to balance the cohorts, we ask you before doing so.
Do I have to attend both dates?
Yes. Each cohort meets on two dates and the second session builds on the first, so you need to attend both.
What if I am not selected?
You receive an answer either way. A waiting list stays open until 22 October, and we contact the next person on it whenever a place frees up. NEB Junction also runs other sessions during the year, announced separately with open registration.
Privacy
We care about your privacy.
This call is part of the NEB Junction project, funded by the European Union under grant agreement no. 101215634. Democratic Society is the data controller for the personal data processed through this form, under Regulation (EU) 2016/679. The contact point for any request is Domenico Di Siena, at domenico.ds@demsoc.eu.
This form is not anonymous. It asks for your name and email address, because a place has to be offered to someone and everyone who applies hears back. Please do not write personal data about other people in the free text fields.
We use what you send to assess your Expression of Interest, to compose a balanced Assembly and to run the sessions, including any access adjustments you ask for. It is not shared outside the project consortium, and participation is reported in aggregate form. We keep it until the end of the project, 31 October 2027, and then delete it.
You may ask us at any time to access, correct or delete your data, or withdraw your consent, by writing to Domenico Di Siena at domenico.ds@demsoc.eu. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country.
Read the full notice
| Who is responsible | Democratic Society, partner in the NEB Junction consortium and the organisation running this call, is the data controller for the personal data processed through this form. The project is funded by the European Union under grant agreement no. 101215634. The contact point for any request is Domenico Di Siena: domenico.ds@demsoc.eu. |
| What we collect | Your name and email address; the organisation or community you name, if any; your category; the three balance fields of location, age and gender; your cohort preference; your confirmation of the dates; your access needs; and anything else you choose to write in the free text fields. |
| Why we collect it | To assess your Expression of Interest, to compose a balanced Assembly, to organise and run the sessions, to contact you about this Assembly and about the sessions that follow it if you agree to that, and to report participation at aggregate level. |
| Legal basis | Your consent, given when you submit the form. You can withdraw it at any time, and withdrawal does not affect anything done while it was in place. Where you tell us about an access need, that information is used only to make your participation possible and is deleted once the sessions are over. |
| Who sees it | The team running this call inside the project consortium. It is not shared outside the consortium. Reporting to the European Commission and to the granting authority is in aggregate form and never names an applicant. |
| Where it is stored | In the Drive managed by Democratic Society. |
| How long we keep it | Until the end of the project, 31 October 2027, and then it is deleted. Aggregate figures without personal data are kept for the project reporting record. |
| Your rights | You may ask us at any time to access, correct or delete your data, or withdraw your consent, by writing to Domenico Di Siena at domenico.ds@demsoc.eu. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country. |
| Automated decisions | None. Every application is read by a person, and the composition of the Assembly is decided by people in a selection session. |