HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03 wants the sensory and emotional experience of a street – beauty, belonging, safety, who feels at home and who doesn’t – turned into evidence solid enough to move real planning and procurement decisions. The soft subject carries hard conditions: findings validated across three neighbourhoods in three countries; genuine social-science-and-humanities weight rather than a token work package; the NEB self-assessment method for comparability; and at least 0.8% of the budget routed to the New European Bauhaus hub.

Fifty-five organisations have already registered a partner search – for three grants.

The call opens on 5 May 2026 and closes on 1 December. This dossier decodes the ten things a proposal on this topic actually has to do, in the call’s own words.