Registration now open
10 December 2025 — 26 February 2026
The CCCB is announcing the call for the 13th edition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, which recognises the best creation and transformation interventions in the public spaces of European cities.
In times like the present, when cities around the world are facing new challenges—climate-related, technological and social—the value of public space is perhaps more significant than ever before. Accordingly, the European Prize for Urban Public Space aims to recognise and make known a wide array of works creating, recovering, and improving public space in European cities.
The Prize involves the cooperation of various European institutions that make up its Advisory Committee, as well as a Board of Experts consisting of specialists from around Europe who guarantee wide-ranging geographic cover and the quality of the works presented for the Prize. This year the jury will be chaired by the architect Eva Prats and will be made up of six members and a secretary.
Competition
The spirit of the Prize is to recognise, highlight and make known the most significant projects of creating or redesigning public space in Europe, which have been completed between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2025 and located in the geographical area of the Council of Europe, and which have not been submitted to previous editions of the Prize.
This is an honorary Prize and is awarded jointly to the institution that has initiated the project and the author/s of the work. The winning projects, the finalists and a selection of the best projects that have presented for the Prize will subsequently form part of the section “Works” at the website, a collection of the most outstanding interventions that have been presented for the Prize since it was first awarded.
Participation
The competition rules and all the necessary information for presenting for the 2026 European Prize for Urban Public Space, along with the online form that is to be completed for free-of-charge inscription, may be found on the Prize's website.
The registration period opens on December 10, 2025 and ends on February 26, 2026.
