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How Green are you REALLY?


To many, sustainability is little more than a trendy slogan or the latest marketing gimmick. To leaders in design, industry, manufacturing, and the corporate world, GREEN DESIGN adheres to strict guidelines in order to shape an international agenda and the international community's attitude toward economic, social, and environmental development.
 
Both organizing institutions in Europe and America are inviting open submissions to honour design innovation and pioneering achievements in this 2025 Awards Program. Architects, designers, urban planners, governments, manufacturers, corporations, institutions, organizations, individuals, as well as individual products, buildings, concepts, projects, programmes, and technology are eligible for submission.

A professional jury in the field of sustainability will review submissions and examine their substance and pursuit of excellence and determine the 2025 GREEN GOOD DESIGN SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS accordingly. Awards are announced in Spring 2024 to the international press and public. Awarded individuals, corporations, institutions, products, projects, and programmes form a traveling exhibition in Europe and in the U.S.
 
We invite your application for this 2025 Awards Program. Nominations are also made by The European Centre's International Advisory Committee. 


HOW TO APPLY

In order to apply you need to visit awardapplication.com Organization Page. You need to create an account applying all your company information. If you already have created an account please log in with your username and password. All required fields must be filled in. If a required field is left blank the form will be rejected. After a successful application you will receive an email with a unique ID number for your submission, a pre-invoice for your submission and a pdf document with all information in case you choose to pay with bank transfer. All final invoices are sending to all clients periodically after we check all transactions passed through correctly. You can always log in to your account to see passed submissions or download your passed invoices.

PROJECT DETAILS & MATERIAL

Credits
All information submitted will be included in all online presentation, exhibition and Award publication catalogue. Please ensure that possible changes or mistakes according to credits, images and project description may incur costs. During your submission please advise all examples given in every section to ensure all credit details filled in correctly.

Project Description
All project descriptions should be edited in English, should be ready to use in any type of online presentation or publication and should not be more than 500 words. There is a specific text tab to include it when submitting so please do not forward it with email or any other way to us.

Project Images
1. ASPECT RATIO 16:9 (1920px Χ 1080px Landscape or Portrait).
2. ASPECT RATIO 1:1 (1080px X 1080px Square format).
You can upload images in mixed formats.
3. RESOLUTION: 300dpi/image, max 6MB per file.
The file names should use explicitly Latin characters. (Please upload 4-6 images)
4. FILE TYPE: JPG, PNG.

Notes
• All images file names should use only Latin characters
• If you want to forward Plans/Sections/Elevations pdfs or more images for the jury procedure or blueprints please use the dropbox link to upload. Make sure your dropbox folder is public so we can have access.

Please contact Fachanan Conlon If you need assistance please do not hesitate to contact us on 00 353 (0) 1 670 8781

Green Categories
Anything produced and/or designed from January 2023 to the present is eligible including:
Green Architecture which includes Green Architecture, Green Community projects, Green Corporations, Green Energy Architecture, Green Environments, Green Urban Planning and Landscape.
Green Graphic Design which category includes Green Packaging, Green Graphic Design and Green Mobile Applications.
Green Organizations and People which category includes Green Government and Institutions, Green People and Green Organizations.
Green Product Design which category includes Green Electronics, Green New Materials and Green Products.
Green Research and Technology which category includes Green Recycling, Green Energy, Green Research and Green Technology.
Green Transportation which category includes Green Vehicles and any other Green Transportation equipment or product.

• For questions about the Award application contact us 00 353 (0) 1 670 8781
• For questions about the Award application e-mail us at fachanan@europeanarch.eu
• All photographs must be labeled with project, designer, manufacturer and photographer credits.
• All winning entries become property of the Permanent Design Collection at The Chicago Athenaeum.
• Projects selected for exhibition will require the physical use of the product or model for exhibition purposes.
• Late submissions add $100.00 USD per entry.

Valid Applications
Products or buildings should have been designed or built after January 1st, 2023. Any person/institution who has made a significant contribution to sustainability locally, nationally or internationally. Any government/local government who has implemented a sustainability plan.As with The Good Design™ ethos, everything and anything is considered in The Green Good Design Sustainability Awards™

Entry Fee

Application fee is €375 per project for the applications paid online choosing debit or credit card.
Application fee is €375 + €25 (bank costs) per project for the applications paid online choosing bank transfer.


Extended date for applications for 2025 Award Program of Green Good Design: February 1st, 2025


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Email: fachanan@europeanarch.eu

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