Change the world
with your design!
Students of the world
can solve our problems!
It is said that if humans continue to live as they do, they will need three earths in 2050.
The younger generation can use their design and creative skills to find solutions for what is the most urgent scenario in human history.
With that strong conviction, we created these awards.
These awards invite students from all over the world to use their design skills to create new, bold, and innovative solutions.
You can help reshape the future of humanity with your design.
Special Sponsorship
Sponsorship
The Faculty of Design,
Kyushu University
SDGs Design International Awards Endowment
The Faculty of Design of Kyushu Unviersity would like to continue to host this award and continue our activities to implement ideas from young people worldwide into society and is accepting donations from companies and individuals.
About the SDGs Design
International Awards
Global society is increasingly expecting great things from design. Motivated by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we’re seeing efforts all over the world to solve problems seemingly unrelated to design like hunger, poverty, and inadequate food supply.
Design’s role has moved beyond just the use of colors and shapes.
Design offers an effective way to solve society’s problems.
These awards recognize and encourage students with great potential to change society. They aim to share brave new solutions widely around the world, serving as a driving force to improve our future society. We look forward to many students contributing their ideas, and we hope for generous support and sponsorship of these awards.
Shigeki Inoue, SDGs Design International Awards Chairperson
Professor, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University
Theme
Let’s Create Sustainable Future Design for Children!
The children are the future.
Designing for children is connected to our future.
Let’s Create Sustainable Future Design for Children
To ensure the peaceful and healthy growth of children, who represent the future, it is imperative to garner support and drive reforms from multiple perspectives. How can we collectively contribute to the well-being of children worldwide and the communities surrounding them? We are eager to receive a broad spectrum of ideas centered around the following keywords:
Children and Medical Care
Medical care, insurance, and social service systems
Children and Education
Educational system, environment, tools, playgrounds, equipment, toys, etc.
Children and Diverse Families
Support for single-parent households, diverse families, etc…
Children and Culture
Support for foreign children, promoting cultural exchange, etc...
Children and Natural Disasters
Support during natural disasters, prevention methods, etc...
Bully-free and Violence-free Society:
Initiatives to create a society free of bullying, family violence, and other social problems
Let’s Create Sustainable Design Future for Children with Companies!
Solving social issues cannot be achieved by one person alone; cooperation with companies and the local community is also necessary. What can companies do to support raising children? We are looking for ideas for events, tools, apps, systems, facility designs that address this issue.
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KM Biologics Award
Ideas to raise awareness of the importance of vaccination for the wellbeing of people around the world.
How can people around the world deepen their understanding of the importance (significance and role) of vaccines?
We welcome ideas that make people want to learn about VPD (vaccine-preventable diseases), or those that facilitate the dissemination of accurate information about vaccines to parents and children. These ideas can take any form, such as educational tools like picture books or apps that emphasize the importance of vaccination, or mechanisms that encourage individuals to take proactive steps towards vaccination. -
YUKO LUCKY Group Award
For those married and unmarried
Whether you have children or not
Ideas for joyfully raising children who are full of smiles.
Children, who will be responsible for the future, are not raised by families alone.
Families, residents, and the companies where the family members work are also involved.
How can we work together to ensure that everyone helps each other and enjoys raising children?For example...
- ・Ideas for company systems that allocates work during maternity leave and child-rearing periods without placing a burden on those who do not have children, such as those who want to have children but do not, or those who do not want to have children of their own
- ・Ideas for comprehensive systems where companies and workplaces provide support for child rearing from pre-birth up until the child grows up
- ・Ideas for companies and workplaces to use childcare-related items in an economically and eco-friendly manner (sharing, reuse, etc.)
- ・Ideas for events and tools to simulate the experience of child-rearing
- ・Ideas for local communities and companies to provide child-rearing support
We are looking for a wide range of novel ideas and systems that companies can use to help nurture the children of the future, such as those mentioned above.
Awards
“Let’s Create Sustainable Future Design for Children”
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Gold Award
300,000 yen
+Certificate
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Silver Award
100,000 yen
+Certificate
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Bronze Award
50,000 yen
+Certificate
This award is co-organized with Dongseo University Korea, so the prize money will be transferred in the equivalent amount in Korean Won.
Let’s Create Sustainable Design Future for Children with Companies!
Corporate Awards
50,000 yen each +Certificate
The companies that support the purpose of the SDGs Design International Awards and are active participants in the SDGs will provide these awards. Winners will be selected among the entries based on the companies’ evaluations.
Special Award(s) for High School Students
Certificate (Including Special Online Campus Tour by Kyushu University)
Special award(s) for high school students will be given to the best design proposal(s) submitted.
Entry Overview
Eligibility |
Any students in universities, graduate schools, vocational institutions, or high schools in Japan or overseas interested in design may apply (including working students). Students not majoring in the design discipline are also welcome to apply. ※Student can apply as an individual or in a group. ※Student must belong to an educational institution at the time of application. |
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Conditions |
Any genre is welcome. We are looking for a wide range of ideas such as product design, graphic design, fashion design, architecture, urban planning, engineering, sociology, and any field. |
Application Period |
July 1, 2023 –October 15, 2023 |
Judges
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［ Jury Chair ］
Juyoung Chang
Director, Professor,
Asia Design Center for Future,
Dongseo University,
Korea -
［ Judging Panel ］
Melanie Sarantou
Professor,
Kyushu University Faculty of Design -
［ Judging Panel ］
Masakazu Tani
Professor Emeritus,
Kyushu University Faculty of Design -
［ Judging Panel ］
Soogil Oh
Professor,
The Cyber University of Korea
Department of Information
Management & Security,
Korea -
［ Judging Panel ］
Jangsub Lee
Associate Professor,
Seoul National University,
Korea
Inquiries
SDGs Design Unit Secretariat
Faculty of Design
Kyushu University
4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka, 815-8540, Japan
- Co-organizer
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- /Kyushu Shiawase Kyoso Labo (KYUSHU HAKUHODO Inc.)
- Cooperation
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