The European Commission announced the 22 winners of the new European Bauhaus awards for 2025. For the fifth consecutive year, the awards of the new European Bauhaus reward projects and initiatives that have stood out and combine viability, integration and aesthetics, Technology, innovation and design. Also, a special prize was also recognized for the urgent need for more affordable and sustainable housing. Among the winners was the Tavros Project project, the renovation and energy upgrading of a working -class apartment building in the Athens Taurus.

In addition, for the first time this year, the award was awarded to 20 small municipalities for the strengthening of small municipalities, including the local community of Agnon for the work of restoring the old Fraston Elementary School. This award highlights the role that these communities play in shaping a more viable, including and beautiful future. This new initiative is supported by a pilot plan of the European Parliament.

The awards were awarded at a ceremony on September 30, in which the Commission also announced a student competition for the design of the official trophy of the new European Bauhaus awards for 2026, inviting new talented people to propose an object that symbolizes it. Students and students can submit their proposals by January 31, 2026.

President Ursula von der Laien said: “Every year I am impressed by creativity in this competition. And I am very pleased with this year’s special housing award. It will help us think of solutions to the housing crisis with a new mind, and it is also a source of inspiration for our work on the European housing plan. Our goal is to make housing more accessible, more sustainable and more qualitative. These are the goals of the new European Bauhaus. The house is not just walls and a roof. Home is the feeling that you are safe and that you belong to one place. “

Nikos Andritsos