Europan 18

EUROPAN 18 IS LAUNCHED ON THE THEME RE-SOURCING

Europan is a biennial competition of ideas followed by implementation processes.

The competition is open to professionals of the architectural, urban and landscape design under 40. Students with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent can be associates, yet under the condition that the team representative is a graduated architect. 
More info and registration to the competition www.europan-europe.eu

EUROPAN 18 – RE-SOURCING

12 European countries offering 47 sites in different cities are participating in the Europan 18 edition, through a common theme: Re-sourcing

The 12 participating countries of the E18 session are: Austria (Associate), France, Germany, Hrvatska, Italy, Nederland, Norway, Portugal (Associate), Spain, Suomi-Finland, Sweden, Switzerland.

Theme

The fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem and social crises lead to the imagination of alternative practices to harmful extraction of resources, overconsumption and pollution of living milieus. Regenerating projects embracing nature and culture are to be though and implemented. It is about weaving synergies between biogeophysical data with socio-spatial justice and health ones. Three main directions for designing forms of resilience and resourcing of inhabited milieus make possible to reactivate other forms of dynamics and narratives around the ecologies of living and caring.

Link to the theme: www.europan-europe.eu/en/session/europan-18/topic

Calendar

Launch: March 3rd, 2025
Submission: June 29th, 2025 (before 23:59 pm UTC+2)
Results: Nov. 17th, 2025

There is no registration deadline (same than submission)

Link to the calendar: www.europan-europe.eu/en/session/europan-18/calendar

Entry conditions

Europan 18 is open to any team consisting of one or more professionals of the same or related disciplines within the architectural, urban and landscape field (such as architects, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers, artists) or from other relevant fields (such as sociology, geography, biology) and may further be associated with one or more students with a bachelor degree or equivalent (3 years of study) in architecture or related disciplines. Every team member must be under the age of 40 years old on the closing date for submission of projects.

Multidisciplinary teams are strongly recommended with regards to the sites’ issues.

One team can submit a project on different sites in different countries with participation limited to one site in the same country.

Link to the rules: www.europan-europe.eu/en/session/europan-18/rules

Registration form: www.europan-europe.eu/en/session/europan-18/team/registration

The registration implies the payment of a €100- fee. This fee includes one Complete Site Folder and the printing –necessary for the evaluation– of the panels on a rigid support by the national secretariats.

The registration to additional site(s) costs €50- per site.

Submissions

Digital submission includes 3 A1 panels (visual elements), a 4 pages illustrated text (max) explaining the link between the project and the theme of the ongoing session as well as the implementation and building processes of the project.

Link to the rules: www.europan-europe.eu/en/session/europan-18/rules

Evaluation

One national jury is organized in each of the 12 participation countries of the session which will meet twice.

The jury is composed of famous professionals from the country and from abroad. A first meeting will allow to preselect 20% of the projects maximum including the most interesting ideas.

The second meeting to select the winning teams (Winner-Runner-up and Special mentions on each site) will stay after a European Forum of Cities and Juries where all the juries’ members and representatives of the 47 sites will meet together.

Link to the composition of the 9 juries: www.europan-europe.eu/en/session/europan-18/jury

Prizes per site

Winner (1st prize) = 12 000€

Runner-up (2nd prize) = 6000 €

A Special Mention can be awarded to a project considered innovative although not completely adapted to the site.

Communication of the results

The announcement of the results for all the juries will be communicated at the European level on November 17th, 2025.

Then at the national scale of the organizing 12 countries: Ceremonies and presentations and/or workshops are organized, creating a first contact between the winning teams and the site representatives.

Later at the European scale: A European event called “Inter-Session Forum” is the link between a finishing session (E18) and the beginning of the new one (E19). This forum gathers the winning teams and site representatives of the last session (E18) and the site representatives of the next one around the results and first implementation steps of the projects awarded during Europan 18.