WITH LOVE FOR EUROPE
Wonderful and complicated, just like us.
Europe is made
by people
Europe holds a great richness of cultures, languages and histories, close together. Its cities were shaped over centuries by the people who live in them, and it shows. Within a day's travel you pass through places built in completely different ways, each with its own habits on the street. That diversity is what we love about working here.
European cities also face real challenges. The climate is changing, mobility has to change with it, and living together is not getting easier. We take that seriously. And we believe in the European project: countries that chose to work on these questions together, and keep choosing it, even when it's hard.
Learn together, choose locally
A good idea from Rotterdam does not automatically work in Helsinki. And not every city needs to reinvent the school street. The skill is knowing the difference.
What we already know together
Across Europe, cities have tested a lot already. School streets, low-traffic neighbourhoods, shared mobility, new ways of involving residents. Much of that knowledge is there for the taking. Where it is, we use it, so cities don't spend time and money learning the same lesson twice.
Common ground takes work
Real collaboration across borders means we all feel a bit lost in translation sometimes. A "quick coffee" can take ten minutes or the whole afternoon, and Dutch directness doesn't always land as intended. Then we don't step back. We listen better and work harder to find common ground. That's often where the best ideas come from.
What the local context needs
Every place has its own traditions: how people use the square, who speaks up at a meeting, what is decided at the kitchen table and what at city hall. We go into the street to find out where a place needs something of its own. That's how we help cities make smart choices about what will and won't work for them.
From Europe and beyond
Our roots and our work also reach beyond Europe, including many years of youth programmes in Argentina. Cities everywhere have answers worth learning from, because many of the challenges are similar. We bring those lessons into our European work, and in return we share what we learn here with the rest of the world.
In the spirit of the New European Bauhaus
Beautiful, sustainable, together.
Beautiful
A street that works is not enough. We look at how a place feels to the people who use it, and whether they want to spend time there. That experience decides if change will last.
Sustainable
Climate goals only become real on the street. We make the green transition practical: more green, less asphalt. Small interventions show the alternative working before it is set in concrete.
Together
Change only sticks when people can make it their own. We work with residents, children, civil servants and researchers. And those who are easily overlooked are part of it too.
The New European Bauhaus asks a simple question: how do we make the green transition something people actually want to live in? It starts in neighbourhoods, respects the diversity of places and traditions, and puts people first. We feel very much at home there. This is what it means in our work.
Our European work
What we do in European programmes and projects.
