[deadline: 30/05/2011]
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is launching the second edition of a competition to design an innovative, sustainable and creative design product, including packaging, with a strong civil society message. The winning object will be distributed during 2012/13, European Year of Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity. Aiming at creating a strong statement communication tool as well as a functional, good design product, EESC Design Eleven keeps on supporting sustainable design practices. The second edition will be focusing on a quite important issues: Intergenerational solidarity in times of an ageing population. Design students and young designers are asked to be confronted with a quite increasing global change, by creating innovative and pertinent solutions, through a process of participative design (final users taking part in the design process) and/or co-design (cross-generation team-building – young and elder designers collaborations). The competition is open to design students and professional designers, either as individuals or teams, born or resident in one of the 27 European Union Member States. The winning designers (1st, 2nd and 3rd prize-winners) will be informed by the EESC in writing and invited to Brussels for the awards ceremony and the opening of an exhibition of selected entries. Amounts allocated: - 1st prize: EUR 7 000 | - 2nd prize: EUR 4 000 | - 3rd prize: EUR 2 000 | Info: www.eesc.europa.eu