Rules 2025
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The Young Talent category aims to support the talent of recently graduated Architects, Urban Planners and Landscape Architects, who will be responsible for transforming our environment in the future. It emerged from an interest in the initial stages of these students’ development and a desire to support their talent as they enter the professional world.
The Young Talent category is based on Qualifying Master’s degrees of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning, which include a design proposal, and strives to draw the academic and professional realms closer together. Most of these projects will not be built, but they nevertheless require all the skills that the students have learned during their training: arts, history, aesthetics, technology, sciences, etc. This category is therefore based on achievements in these disciplines.
The Young Talent category promotes debates between students and professors from each participating School to choose those projects that will represent it. The presence of a Nominator in each School is essential to summarise this internal debate to nominate the projects that will participate in the award.
The competition inherent in any prize of this nature and the involvement of professors in the training of future professionals are core aspects that will ensure the success of the Young Talent category and the selection of excellent Winners for the Awards.
The Young Talent category seeks to encourage the cross-pollinization of the outputs from different Schools and to improve these architects’ skills from the start of their professional careers. It supports entrepreneurial projects by young architects when they enter the professional world, an essential part of the projection of their profiles at this early stage. These first steps of young professionals will allow a two-way understanding of this turning point in their lives.
The nominated Qualifying Master’s degree projects must have been presented and approved at their schools between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024. The Schools must be from countries participating in the Creative Europe programme.
Schools will nominate Qualifying Master’s degree projects in architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning that will participate in each edition of the Young Talent category through an internal selection process.
An international Jury will select a group of Shortlisted Works from where they will choose twelve Finalists and from these, three Winners from the Creative Europe territories. In order to participate, Schools must offer a Qualifying Master’s degree with a design project which is the last design proposal before ending architecture studies. Architecture includes architecture design, urban design and landscape architecture. Each School will select master projects with design proposals for the Young Talent category through an internal debate, which should take into account:
→ The enthusiasm of the students
→ The professorship board
→ The students’ board
→ The cultural and communication departments
1. Nominations for works to be considered for the Young Talent category will be put forward by the Nominator of each School eligible to participate.
The number of designs that Schools from the Creative Europe territories can nominate will be in accordance with the total number of enrolled students at the School:
→ Under 1.000 students: 2 designs;
→ Between 1.000 – 2.000 students: 4 designs;
→ Between 2.000 – 3.000 students: 6 designs;
→ More than 3.000 students: 8 designs.
The three Young Talent Winners will have studied in Schools from the Creative Europe territoriesand their projects will be their final diploma master project from these schools.
2. The Young Talent 2025 category is open to all the designs completed and approved in eligible Schools from 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024.
3. The EUmies Awards in the Young Talent category will be awarded every two years following the decisions of a Jury composed of renowned specialists representing diverse schools and trends in the fields of architecture and architectural critique.
4. After taking into account the recommendations of the Advisory Committee, ACE-CAE, EAAE and World Architects, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe will appoint the Jury of five members. The Jury will hold online meetings and an onsite meeting, which will be the decisive one.
5. Following the analysis of information submitted for each of the proposed designs and the subsequent debate, the Jury will draw up a Shortlist of projects.
6. Following the analysis of information submitted for each of the proposed designs and the subsequent debate, the Jury will draw up a list of a maximum of twelve Finalist designs, three of which will be awarded the award.
7. The works to be awarded will be selected by Jury agreement or, if not possible, by absolute majority vote of the Jury members.
8. The Director of the EUmies Awards from the Fundació Mies van der Rohe will carry out the functions of Secretary of the Jury, without the right to vote.
9. The Young Talent category may not be declared vacant. There will be three indivisible awards. Acceptance by the authors of the winning projects entails prior acceptance of the Rules.
10. The Young Talent category will be awarded during the EUmies Awards Day that will take place in Venice together with an exhibition.
11. For the purpose of selecting Nominees, the following procedure will be followed:
11.1 The Fundació Mies van der Rohe will disseminate the Rules and will contact the Schools that can participate according to point 2.
11.2 Each School that wishes to participate will send an email to ytaa@miesbcn.com.
11.3 The Nominator of each School will be responsible for nominating the designs according to the “Nominators’ Guidelines” document.
11.4 The nominated Authors will be asked to submit the required documents following the “Authors’ Guidelines”, consisting of basic information, credits for the design as well as written and graphic documents. The exact specifications regarding the material to be submitted will be outlined in detail in the mentioned document.
12. To ensure compliance with the general objectives of the Awards, the Jury, subject to consultation and agreement of the holding institutions, may amend these Rules if and when a situation, unforeseen in the aforementioned Articles, makes it necessary.
All nominated designs will be published online and in a catalogue, and will become part of the Archive of the EUmies Awards as recognition of their authors and the schools.
The Winners will be supported in the creation of a network with the architects and critics involved in the EUmies Awards. They will receive a diploma and 5.000€ each;[i] a profile in World Architects; furniture from USM to organise their workspace; and their designs will be shown in the EUmies Awards Young Talent traveling exhibition and in Venice. The schools will also receive special acknowledgement.
Finalists and Shortlisted participants will receive a diploma; a profile in World Architects; and their designs will be shown in the EUmies Awards Young Talent traveling exhibition as well as in Venice.
Each Winner will define a Plan of Action which will be presented on reception of the Award and will deliver a Final Report outlining the relevant activities and the benefits of the year-long experience. The economic award should be used in research projects with Europe as the main topic of study; working in an architecture studio from the Creative Europe territory; setting a work environment in the Creative Europe territories; travelling throughout Europe focusing on its architecture; or any other investment accepted by the FMvdR and Creative Europe teams related to the benefit of the European territory and in the context of the aims of the New European Bauhaus-European Green Deal.
Barcelona, Europe, December 2024