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SUMMARY:We Are Desco: Egyptian Graduation Projects Competition 3.0 Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nWe Are Desco presents the Egyptian Graduation Projects Competition 3.0 Ceremony\, the awards event closing the third edition of Egypt’s dedicated architectural graduation projects competition\, proudly sponsored by Aedas. The ceremony brings together leading architects\, industry professionals\, academics\, and emerging talents to recognise and award the most outstanding student projects across architecture\, interior design\, and urban design submitted from Egyptian graduates of the 2024/2025 academic year. \nWe Are Desco is an Egyptian design community platform founded to bridge the gap between architecture and design students and the professional world. The competition\, now in its third edition\, was launched from the observation that architecture graduates present their projects to a small jury and a few friends\, then the work disappears. The competition creates a national platform for that work to be seen\, evaluated\, and connected to professional opportunity. \nFocus\nThe Egyptian Graduation Projects Competition 3.0 is restricted to Egyptian graduates in architecture\, interior design\, and urban design from the 2024/2025 academic year. It operates across multiple selection stages\, beginning with a top 150 shortlist determined by a public community vote (the DESCOMMUNITY AWARD)\, followed by jury evaluation of the shortlisted projects. \nThe competition’s primary prize structure is tied to professional development rather than cash alone. Winners are directly connected to Aedas\, one of the world’s leading global architecture firms\, with opportunities for international exposure\, career development\, and future collaboration. The total prize fund is 150\,000 EGP\, with internship positions at Aedas as the flagship award. This structure positions the competition as a career bridge rather than a purely academic exercise\, making the ceremony the moment when student design work is formally connected to the professional sphere. \nThis is not just a competition\, it’s a career opportunity.\nWe Are Desco\, Egyptian Graduation Projects Competition 3.0 \nCompetition History and Format\nWe Are Desco launched the first Egyptian architectural graduation projects competition in 2023\, originally hosted in the metaverse\, making it the first event of its kind to use a virtual environment for this purpose in Egypt. The platform’s founding insight\, articulated by co-founder Hazem Gouda\, was that graduation projects deserve a national audience and professional evaluation beyond the traditional academic jury. Each edition has expanded the scope\, prize structure\, and industry partnerships. \nThe third edition’s jury and partnership with Aedas\, combined with a total prize fund of 150\,000 EGP and a multi-stage selection process\, represents the most significant scale-up yet. The competition is open to participants in all three design disciplines: architecture\, interior design\, and urban design\, reflecting the full range of spatial education programmes at Egyptian universities. \nSponsor: Aedas\nAedas is one of the world’s largest and most internationally active architecture firms\, with studios across Asia\, the Middle East\, Europe\, and beyond. Its sponsorship of the competition’s third edition provides the prize structure with genuine professional weight: an internship at Aedas is a direct entry point into an international design practice\, not a token reward. The connection between Egyptian architectural education and a firm of Aedas’s scale is one of the most substantive elements the competition offers its participants. \nAudience\nThe ceremony targets architecture and design graduates\, students\, educators\, and professionals active in Egypt’s design community. It also draws industry leaders and potential employers who use the competition as a talent pipeline. For those tracking the development of architectural education and emerging talent in Egypt\, the competition and ceremony offer a consolidated view of the country’s current student output across spatial disciplines. \nEvent Details\n\n\n\nEvent Type\nAwards ceremony closing Egyptian Graduation Projects Competition 3.0\n\n\nDate\nApril 2026 (exact ceremony date not published — verify at wearedesco.com)\n\n\nVenue\nNot published at time of writing — verify at wearedesco.com\n\n\nAdmission / Fees\nNot publicly listed — check wearedesco.com for attendance details\n\n\nOrganizer\nWe Are Desco\n\n\nSponsor\nAedas\n\n\nEligible Participants\nEgyptian graduates 2024/2025 in architecture\, interior design\, and urban design\n\n\nTotal Prize Fund\n150\,000 EGP\n\n\nTop Prize\nInternship at Aedas + international exposure and collaboration opportunities\n\n\nRegistration Period\nJuly 15 – October 1\, 2025\n\n\nWinners Announcement\nNovember 30\, 2025 (shortlist and winners)\n\n\nContact\nwearedesco.com\n\n\n\n\n✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight\nThe Egyptian Graduation Projects Competition’s structural logic is sound: graduation projects represent a significant body of design research and spatial thinking that Egyptian universities generate annually\, and almost none of it reaches a professional audience. We Are Desco identified this gap at the first edition in 2023 and has consistently expanded the platform since. The Aedas partnership in the third edition is the most significant signal yet that the competition is developing real professional gravity rather than operating purely as a community event. The multi-stage selection\, combining public vote and jury evaluation\, has the advantage of building a visible community around the work before the ceremony\, which is more pedagogically honest than jury-only competitions. The 150\,000 EGP prize fund and internship structure make this the most consequential version of the competition to date. For Egyptian architectural education\, the question the competition implicitly raises is whether visibility and professional opportunity at graduation can affect how students approach the work during their studies. \n\n\nClosing Note\nIn three editions\, We Are Desco has built the only national platform in Egypt dedicated to architectural graduation projects as a distinct category of design work deserving public and professional recognition. The third edition’s ceremony is the culmination of a process that involved top-150 shortlisting\, community voting\, jury evaluation\, and industry partnership. For anyone engaged with the development of design education and emerging talent in Egypt\, it is the most concentrated single event in that conversation.
URL:https://archup.net/event/we-are-desco-egyptian-graduation-projects-competition-3-0-ceremony/
LOCATION:Cairo\, Ghurnata Palace\, Cairo\, Cairo\, -\, Egypt
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