The second edition of the Next Gen Design Competition invites young designers and thinkers across Europe to engage with a world in flux—and to step in boldly to protect values they stand for and shape what will come next. If you are aged 18 to 35, born, studying, or living in Europe, this is your moment. Whether you’re an individual innovator or part of a collaborative team, you’re welcome to submit up to five entries showcasing your vision for a sustainable future. Winning this competition is an entry into a pan-European movement of change-makers. As a winner, your work and your voice will be amplified through The Next Gen Design Traveling Exhibition, The Next Gen Design Digital Showcase, The Next Gen Design Residency Program and The Next Gen Design Residency Awards, with a total prize fund of 2,000 EUR per festival.

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The premiere edition of the Next Gen Design Competition invites all creatives aged 18-35 across Europe to explore bold, regenerative, and inclusive design solutions. Under the theme “Redesign Tomorrow, Today,” this competition empowers the next generation to tackle the pressing challenges of our time with ingenuity and imagination. Submit your innovative ideas addressing sustainability themes like circular products, eco-friendly textiles, solutions to food waste, urban farming, and more. Up to 5 entries are welcome.

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With the outbreak of COVID-19, Roca has decided to launch a special edition of its international design competition jumpthegap®. This time the competition is focused on proposing new products or services related to the functions of the bathroom space, such as sanitation, hygiene, and wellbeing, but that could now be required in so many spaces, public or private, in a COVID scenario. A total of 5 prizes of 1,000 Euro each will be awarded to the 5 selected projects.

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The 8th Roca jumpthegap® competition has been announced and will soon open registration for conceptual, sustainable and innovative solutions for the bathroom space of the future. The competition is open to any architect, interior architect, industrial designer, interior designer, building engineer or another related professional under 40 years old. Students in architecture, industrial design, building engineering or other related discipline currently enrolled in an university, college or school under 36, are also eligible. The 2018-2019 competition is endowed with 26,000 Euro in prizes: 10,000 Euro in the student category, 10,000 Euro in the professional category and a special We Are Water Foundation Prize awarded by the We Are Water Foundation of Roca, set at 6,000 Euro.

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