Catalyse NEB
A one-year start-up acceleration programme for NEB-minded businesses.
Objective
Catalyse NEB identifies and empowers businesses that embed social innovation into their products, services, and operations.
By integrating the core values of the New European Bauhaus – sustainability, inclusion, and beauty – these ventures drive systems change and propose new ways of living and working together.
How
The programme offers tailored entrepreneurship training, mentoring, and access to a growing ecosystem of investors, experts, and peers.
Selected startups receive support to strengthen their business models, refine their purpose-driven strategies, and scale their impact across Europe and beyond. Through Catalyse NEB, NEB-minded innovators are equipped to become international game-changers in fields that matter.
A peek into the Catalyse NEB kickoff event of 2025
Catalyse NEB news & stories
A New Wave of NEB Innovation: Introducing the Catalyse 2026 Cohort
A new generation of start-ups is rethinking how we build, produce, move and live. Meet the 20 ventures of the 2026 Catalyse NEB cohort, challenging the status quo across sectors, from materials and energy to mobility, water, agriculture and healthcare, with sustainability, inclusivity and design at the core.
Growing the Future of Sustainable Materials: How MycoLutions Is Scaling Circular Innovation with EIT NEB Catalyse
What if the future of insulation was grown from fungi, not made from foam? MycoLutions is turning agricultural residues into high‑performance mycelium panels.
What It Takes to Build Sustainable Materials at Scale
The NEB values do not enter industry through slogans. They enter through people and their perspectives.