The deadline for timely submission of all entries to the competition is Monday, 1 December 2025, 02:00 p.m. CET.
Project authors must be young professionals or students with a maximum age of 40 years at the opening of the competition (date of birth must be later than 31 August 1984).
All relevant dates of the competition procedure:
• Online Webinar 1 Monday, 8 September 2025, 10:00 a.m. CEST
• Online Webinar 2 Monday, 22 September 2025, 10:00 a.m. CEST
• Competition Deadline Monday, 1 December 2025, 02:00 p.m. CET
• Jury Meeting January 2026
Auslober:
United Nations University-FLORES: established in Dresden, Germany, in 2012, is one of thirteen institutes and programmes, located in 12 different countries, which together comprise the United Nations University. UNU-FLORES operates at the intersection of science, policy, and education to address complex sustainability challenges through a holistic understanding of resource interconnections.
The jury composed of the persons listed below, each representing a continent around the world:
Tatiana Bilbao, Architect, Mexico City, Mexico
Barbara Buser, Architect, Basel, Switzerland
Momoyo Kaijima, Architect, Tokyo, Japan
Mark Lee, Architect, New York, USA
Zegeye Cherenet Mamo, Architect, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Jane Wernick, Engineer, London, Great Britain
For more information and to register for participation: houseofnowaste.org