Design a product which sustains biodiversity and win €25.000!
 
During Dutch Design Week 2011 ’The Green Design Competition’ (TGDC) was launched by its ambassador Jurgen Bey, together with DDW and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (EL&I).

TGDC is a contest for entrepreneurs in the design industry, for individuals (and teams) with a vision of what the future of design should look like. The aim of the competition is to find the talented entrepreneurs in the industry who aim to create a new product, which sustains biodiversity. €25.000 will be awarded to the first prize winner.

“We have initiated TDGC, since we believe that designers have the ability to co-create a more ecological economy,” says Hans Robertus, director DDW.

"In this competition we are looking for the design entrepreneur with a vision, who is on the search for active words and perhaps even becomes the activist himself", adds Jurgen Bey, "It is time to collectively explore new green design methods and products, fed by culture and undertaken by an activist designer; a designer who does not avoid the industry and perhaps even rediscovers it.”

The competition is open to all designers around the world and design students who will graduate 2012.

Participants in this contest are challenged to design a product and write a business plan, which will significantly contribute to sustaining biodiversity, either by concept, design and production, or usage.

Besides the first prize of €25.000 and €15.000 in a second category, contestants will receive master classes and coaching to enrich their products and business plans. Deadline for application to TDGC is 10 February 2012.