The Degree at design of the University of Navarra has been awarded the award New European Bauhaus in the category Interdisciplinary Educational Models, in an international ceremony held in Brussels. The Degree at design is one of four University of Navarra projects that were finalists in this call among 2,000 applications submitted. 

The director of the University's School of Architecture , Carlos Naya, collected the award and pointed out that this recognition "values the strategic decision we made to train designers with a broad and generalist vision, oriented in its work to a design that takes care of the environment and people. Professionals who can play a role core topic in the Europe of the 21st century, as in the 20th century those who promoted the original Bauhaus did". 

In addition to the Degree at design, the academic center has competed for these awards with three other projects in different categories: the campus of the University, the Master's Degree at design and management Environmental Building and the University Museum of Navarra. 

In this respect, Carlos Naya underlined the importance of having reached the final stage of these awards with four projects that are so different and so closely interwoven in the University's project . "This consolidates the line of work of the University of Navarra focused on the student, on its integral development , attentive to the reality that surrounds us to train future professionals in the face of the challenges we face as a global society and allows us to look to the future with the confidence of feeling supported by the rest of European actors". This award also helps to reinforce in the institution the idea that the work begun so many years ago, and consolidated within the 2025 Strategy, is a long road that requires the perseverance and commitment of innovative, transversal and creative work teams, open to collaboration in order to face the challenges of the future together. 

The winning project will receive an award of 30,000 euros and a communication package. 

The awards ceremony submission was also attended by Pilar Lostao, Vice President of International Office of the University of Navarra; Cristina Muñoz Corsini, Director of Planning and design of Campus; and Guillermo García del Barrio, director of Education of Innovation Factory. 

The University of Navarra is partner European of the New European Bauhaus and acts at European level as such, together with the rest of the partners, as well as an agent in the project Navarra Bauhaus Lighthouse Region, which is being implemented by the Government of Navarra and coordinated by Nasuvinsa. 

The New European Bauhaus initiative is one of the major European commitments to promote a common and sustainable development , through the circular economy, the recovery of the founding principles of the European Bauhaus and its updating from the collaboration and know-how of the different public and private actors in Europe.