Europan Notebook #2

1.Europan is directed at young professionals of the architectural, landscape and urban design under 40 and with a European degree or working in Europe. Students with a bachelor's degree or equivalent in architecture or other disciplines can participate in a team with at least one qualified architect.
Following the sites, the teams must include or not an architect (see in the synthetic file of each site).

2.Europan is a call for projects of ideas at the urban, landscape and architectural scale, followed by implementations.

3.Europan is a European federation of the national structures (non profit associations) organising the competitions, launched simultaneously on a common theme (Re-sourcing) and with common objectives.

4.Rules and judging methods are identical in all the participating countries. The competitions are open, public, European and anonymous. Competitors can register freely in the country of their choice.

5.A series of urban sites in European cities, accompanied with a brief and a complete site folder, is proposed to competitors. Competitors choose from these sites the one(s) on which they want to submit their projects.

6.Each project must have two types of entries: the first one is a strategic reflection project responding to the session topic – for Europan 18 RE-SOURCING – on the territorial scale of the site; the other one is an urban-architectural project on a clearly defined area of the site.Submission is strictly digital and is done on the European website.Besides the 3 panels and the digital document, submission must include 3 images and a short text for the communication of the project.

7.In each country a national jury of experts first shortlists the most innovating projects per site (around 25% max. or at least 3 per site). The Europan Scientific Council then compares and analyses these projects on a European level, launching the debate between the sites representatives and the jury members during the Forum of Citites and Juries. Finally, the national juries meet a second time to make the final decision of the winning teams.

8.Each of the national competitions has their own jury that designates winners and runners-up, who receive a prize. Some non-rewarded projects may receive a special mention.

9.The Europan organisers then help the prize-winning teams to secure commissions to be implemented. After the announcement of the results, meetings are organised on each site with the city representatives, the juries and the winning teams.