Design Equality International SDG-Focused Design Competition 2025 for students and recent graduates/young professionals (€15,000 prize)

Application Deadline: January thirty first, 2026

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 Design Equality International SDG-Focused Design Competition. In a quickly evolving world, world challenges have gotten more and more advanced and interlinked. Innovative approaches are wanted with a view to enhance the way in which we reply and adapt to this altering surroundings, the place established strategies don’t all the time guarantee impression. Achieving the formidable Sustainable Development Goals – and notably the objective on gender equality and ladies’s empowerment – requires transformative shifts, built-in approaches and new options.

BE OPEN will focus the competitors on modern options that:

• take away the limitations to the development of girls and ladies in innovation, expertise and entrepreneurship.
• advance gender equality,
• combine gender points inside innovation,
• promote ladies as innovators and entrepreneurs,
• promote technology-driven modern options that meet the wants of girls and ladies,

Requirements

• It is open to students and recent graduates/young professionals internationally.

BE OPEN strives to make the competitors programme extra helpful for students and graduates:

• the contributors can broaden their information in sustainable practices and motion plans
• the contributors can compete for cash prizes starting from €2,000 to €5,000
• the contributors can get worldwide publicity as proficient creatives and innovators
• the winners will go on a visit to a significant worldwide UNSDG-related occasion and pitch their concepts to worldwide audiences

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

• Solutions to advocate and advance gender equality
• Solutions that meet the wants of girls and ladies
• Solutions to advertise 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

Application Timeline

• Deadline for submissions — January thirty first, 2026
• Announcement of winners — March to April 2026
• Celebration of winners — TBC

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Design Equality International SDG-Focused Design Competition