INTBAU is excited to announce the new edition of its Grassroots Grants Programme for 2024-2025. Starting in November 2024, this initiative will award small grants of up to £5000 to projects that explore how local building traditions, materials, and techniques can be adapted to address contemporary challenges in environmental, social, and cultural contexts.
The programme aims to support innovative and sustainable solutions for the built environment, promoting ideas that blend vernacular design with current needs such as climate resilience and social inclusion. Eligible projects include community-building prototypes, research on local techniques, training workshops, and resources that encourage sustainable practices.
Who can apply?
Researchers, architects, designers, entrepreneurs, small businesses, local collectives, and other individuals or entities with creative solutions to today’s built environment challenges are encouraged to apply. Fully developed ideas are not required at the first stage of the application.
How to apply
To participate, applicants must submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) by 19 January 2025 using the form available on www.intbau.org. Selected projects will advance to a second phase, where full proposals will be requested. Finalists will be reviewed by an international committee, and results will be announced in April 2025.
For more information about the programme and examples of previous projects, visit the official INTBAU website or email grassroots@intbau.org.
This initiative is a unique opportunity to develop projects that connect tradition with innovation, providing concrete and sustainable solutions to global challenges in the built environment.
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