EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025
Overview
The EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025 is a prestigious competition that aims to recognize and support the best diploma projects from recently graduated architects, urban planners, and landscape architects. This initiative, part of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards, invites architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning schools from Creative Europe countries to nominate outstanding student projects.
The award focuses on qualifying master’s degrees that include a design proposal, regardless of whether the projects are built or not. The goal is to highlight the essential skills students have acquired, including art, history, aesthetics, technology, and science.
Why You Should Participate
- Prestige & Recognition: Winning and shortlisted projects gain exposure through publications, exhibitions, and the EUmies Awards archive.
- Career Advancement: Winners receive a profile in World Architects, enhancing their professional visibility.
- Financial Support: Three winners will receive €5,000 each along with furniture from USM to organize their workspace.
- Global Exposure: Finalists’ works will be exhibited at Biennale Architettura 2025 in Venice, one of the most important global architecture events.
- School Recognition: Participating schools will receive special acknowledgment for their contributions to architectural education.
Key Highlights
Eligibility:
- Open to qualifying master’s degree projects in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
- Projects must be completed and approved between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024.
- Schools from Creative Europe Programme countries can nominate projects.
Nomination & Submission:
- Nominations must be submitted by schools and are free of charge.
- Nomination Deadline: January 29, 2025.
- Project Submission Deadline: February 2025.
Selection Process:
- A prestigious jury will select the finalists and winners.
- Shortlist Announcement: April 2025.
- Finalists Revealed: May 2025.
- Winners Announcement: June 2025 at EUmies Awards Day in Venice.
Entry Fees
| Category | Fee |
|---|---|
| Single Project Submission | Free |
Prizes and Recognition
| Award | Prize |
|---|---|
| Winner (3 projects) | €5,000 + Diploma + USM Furniture + Profile in World Architects |
| Finalists | Diploma + Exhibition + Profile in World Architects |
| Shortlisted Projects | Online & Catalogue Publication + Archive Inclusion |
Submission Details
- Schools must submit nominations directly through the competition platform.
- Nominated projects must include a design proposal that reflects the student’s training.
- Finalists’ projects will be showcased at the Biennale Architettura 2025 in Venice and the EUmies Awards Young Talent Traveling Exhibition.
- All nominated projects will be archived and published online and in a catalogue.
Important Dates
| Stage | Date |
|---|---|
| Nomination Deadline | January 29, 2025 |
| Submission Deadline | February 2025 |
| Shortlist Announcement | April 2025 |
| Finalists Announcement | May 2025 |
| Winners Announcement | June 2025 |
How to Join
- Schools must nominate their best final diploma projects.
- Authors must submit their projects before the deadline.
- Shortlisted and finalist projects will be reviewed by the jury.
- Winning projects will be announced and exhibited at major architectural events.
Jury
The jury panel will be announced soon and will consist of renowned architects, urban planners, and educators. They will evaluate projects based on design excellence, innovation, and impact on the built environment.
Young Talent Open
In parallel, Young Talent Open invites schools from Council of Europe member countries not in the Creative Europe Programme, such as:
- Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Turkey. Additionally, non-European invited countries:
- Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The jury will select six finalist projects, with one ultimate winner. Young Talent Open is not funded by the European Union and is managed by Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
