The Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) is proud to announce the new edition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space. This biennial award celebrates projects that create and improve public spaces across Europe. The call for submissions for the 2026 edition is now open: registration is available from 10 December to 26 February.
The new call for submissions for the European Prize for Urban Public Space is now open. Public space projects from across Europe completed between January 2021 and December 2025 are eligible.
The call is free of charge and consists of two rounds:
Timeline:
10 December 2025
Start of submissions at 12:00 (GMT+1)
26 February 2026
Deadline for submissions at 12:00 (GMT+1)
2–3 July 2026
Jury meeting to select shortlist and finalists
9 July 2026
Announcement of the shortlist with 25 selected projects
9 September 2026
Announcement of the 5 finalists
15–18 October 2026
Presentation of the 5 finalists at the CCCB, jury deliberation, and award ceremony
The international jury is composed of independent experts who change with each edition to ensure fresh perspectives on the project. The 2026 jury consists of Eva Prats (President of the Jury), Lluís Ortega (Secretary), Angelika Fitz, Monika Konrad, Inês Lobo, Bas Smets, and Philip Ursprung.
The Prize counts on a network of institutions of recognised prestige which consolidate the project throughout Europe and ensure that the most interesting interventions in public space will have access to the call.
The institutions have an advisory role in proposing Jury members and expert nominators. They also review works that are nominated for the competition, as well as supporting the dissemination of information about the Prize –the call for entries and the results, in the country and network of influence: Cosmin Caciuc (Romania), Rodrigo Coelho (Portugal), Daniela Colafranceschi (Italy), Pelin Derviş (Turkey), Anneke Essl (Austria), Žaklina Gligorijević (Serbia), Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (Spain), Tinatin Gurgenidze (Germany), Valeri Gyurov (Bulgaria), Konstantinos Ioannidis (Norway), Jelena Ivanovic Vojvodic (Serbia), Juulia Kauste (Finland), Igor Kovačević (Czech Republic), Višnja Kukoč (Croatia), Piotr Lewicki (Poland), Dan Merta (Czech Republic), Henrieta Moravčíková (Slovakia), Maroje Mrduljas (Croatia), Nedim Mutevelić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Shane O’Toole (Ireland), Sarhat Pertrosyan (Armenia), Sille Pihlak (Estonia), Levente Polyak (Hungary), Ewa Porębska (Poland), Jelena Prokopljević (Spain), Gustavo Ribeiro (Denmark), Socrates Stratis (Cyprus), Hans Teerds (Netherland), Ed Wall (United Kingdom).
Additional expert confirmations currently in progress...
The Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona is a multidisciplinary cultural centre that deals with the key challenges of contemporary society. One of its key areas of interest are cities as physical structures but also, and essentially, as basic political and cultural entities.
The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition which, since 2000, has recognised the creation, recovery and improvement of public spaces whose condition is understood as a clear indicator of the democratic health of our cities.
Throughout its 12 editions, the Prize has received 2,507 works from 43 European countries. The Prize has therefore become a window with privileged perspectives on the transformation of public spaces in Europe and a gauge of the main concerns of European cities.
Emerging from the Prize, the online archive of the web brings together the best 382 works from all the awards.