Design Equality 2025 International Design Competition (up to €15,000 in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: January 31, 2026

Applications are open for the Design Equality 2025 International Design Competition. Design Equality with Innovation is a world design competitors, developed and held by BE OPEN and their companions. 2025 is the thirtieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action accepted by all 189 UN international locations unanimously on the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women. It is an agenda for girls’s empowerment and the important thing international coverage doc on gender equality.

Inspired by these 30 years of dedication and exhausting work, BE OPEN’s Design Equality with Innovation programme hopes to mobilize pressing and sustained motion to obtain gender equality and the empowerment of all ladies and women and assist the achievement of the SDGs.

In a quickly evolving world, international challenges have gotten more and more complicated and interlinked. Innovative approaches are wanted in order to enhance the best way we reply and adapt to this altering atmosphere, the place established strategies don’t at all times guarantee affect. Achieving the bold Sustainable Development Goals – and notably the objective on gender equality and girls’s empowerment – requires transformative shifts, built-in approaches and new options.

BE OPEN will focus the competitors on progressive options that:

• advance gender equality,
• combine gender points inside innovation,
• promote ladies as innovators and entrepreneurs,
• promote expertise-pushed progressive options that meet the wants of girls and women,
• take away the boundaries to the development of girls and women in innovation, expertise and entrepreneurship.

Categories

DESIGN EQUALITY has three classes for the submissions to relate to, to assist contestants select their strategy to the problem:

• Solutions to advocate and advance gender equality
• Solutions that meet the wants of girls and women
• Solutions to promote ladies as innovators and entrepreneurs

Prizes

• First prize – €5,000
• Second prize – €3,000
• Third prize – €2,000
• BE OPEN Founder’s Choice prize – €3,000
• Public Vote prize – €2,000

Eligibility

• Open to college students and up to date graduates/younger professionals internationally.
• Participants might enter as people or as part of a multidisciplinary crew (there isn’t any restrict to the variety of members in the crew). Individuals are invited to submit one mission. They also can submit one crew mission for a complete of two initiatives entered in the competitors. Participants are inspired to search tutorial {and professional} mentorship/recommendation/sponsorship.

Application

In case your mission matches in multiple class, select the one in which the answer may generate the best constructive affect.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Design Equality.