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| Application deadline: | End of March |
| Benefits summary: | Prize money (€ 1000) |
Last update: 18 October 2011
Description
This ideas competition is organized within the framework of the Programme for Transnational Cooperation Slovakia - Austria 2007-2013, a project that aims at finding innovative solutions for Europe to become a more socially attractive and ecologically sustainable environment. The competition is open to entrants living in the European Union and looks for unrealized ideas and designs involving waste products (re-use design) that will be presented to the public and offered to companies active in the socioeconomic field in order to be eventually implemented.
The project is directed at the creation of both jobs and a sustainable environment. Socially deprived or permanently unemployed people are meant to find long-term employment through the establishment of new work opportunities in the field of re-use design, such as in the collection of waste materials and in the production and distribution of re-use design products. As a cross-border initiative, the project promotes the development and implementation of new re-use job opportunities in socio-economic organizations and companies in Slovakia and Austria. In addition, the idea of manufacturing (trendy) products of everyday life made from recycled waste products is meant to raise an ecological awareness among consumers and contribute to sustainability and the preservation of natural resources. Involving professional designers in the process will ensure that consumers increasingly recognize the attractiveness of re-use products.
Eligibility
Employed and self-employed professional designers and design students in the European Union are invited to submit their unrealized designs. By entering participants grant the organizers the right to present their works publicly in exhibitions and publish them in the context of this competition.
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test. More information
Benefits
The total prize money is 3,000 euros and will be equally distributed among the winners in the three categories (1,000 euros each). The prizes are indivisible and their distribution is obligatory.
Application information
The designs, sketches, models, dummies, or prototypes entered must be presented true to scale, regardless of the products´ actual dimensions and applications. The production of the designs entered must involve exclusively recyclables that can be collected and separated in larger quantities in order to ensure the possibility of serial/industrial production. Unique items, handmade works, and products made from unseparated domestic waste are excluded.
Possible materials to be used are: automobile tyres, safety belts, books, wiring, CDs/DVDs, bicycle wheels and tubes, film canisters, tiles, aluminium cans, plastic bottles, boxes, corrugated cardboard, clothes hangers (wood, plastic, metal), crown caps, conductor plates/circuit boards, truck tarpaulins, beverage cartons, textiles (clothes, fabric, felt, wool), glass bottles.
Each entry must be accompanied by:
- Two completed entry forms
- A summary description (one page)
- A two-dimensional documentation (drawings, sketches, or photographs of the design), mounted on up to two panels (cardboard or foamboard) measuring 70 by 100 cm or up to five panels measuring 35 by 50 cm (the entrant´s personal data must be attached to the reverse side of the panels). Videos, CDs, and DVDs are not acceptable.
- Models, dummies, or prototypes must be securely wrapped. If you want your entries to be returned, please use reusable package materials.
Entries that do not comply with these conditions will not be considered. The number of entries per entrant is not limited.
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The realization or production of the design by a socioeconomic company in Slovakia and/or Austria will be based on a customary licence agreement to be negotiated between the designer and the producer before the project has expired. A sample agreement published by designaustria will serve as the basis for such negotiations. The prize money will be considered an adequate compensation for the design as such; additional royalties will be paid according to the licence agreement after the project has expired.
Moreover, the jury can assign up to five merit awards per category to design solutions envisaging a particularly innovative and visionary use of recyclables. Each selected designer will receive a certificate.
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