Rules and criteria

The full set of rules for Europan 9 can be downloaded from the Europan Europe website. All entrants should familiarise themselves with the full competition rules.

Eligibility of entrants

Europan 9 is open to any team of young urban and architectural design professionals (architects, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers). Teams may also include young professionals from other disciplines. All candidates, whatever their profession, must be under 40 years old on the closing date for submission of entries (28 June 2007).

Participating architects must be qualified to practice their profession in the country where they are living, in accordance with the regulations in force in the country where they are established at the time of registration. Architects practicing in the UK, for example, must be registered with the Architects Registration Board (ARB). For further information about registering with the ARB, please visit www.arb.org.uk.

Non-eligibility

No competition organisers, members of technical committees, observers or jury members are eligible to take part in any of the competitions.

No person may enter the competition in a country where he or she:

• has any commitment to, or is professionally involved with, any of the parties responsible for the proposed sites
• works for the practice or professional organisation of any member of the jury
• has family ties with any competition organiser or member of the technical committee or jury, or with any person having any commitment to or any professional involvement with any of the parties responsible for the proposed sites.

The entrant or team may not submit any project that has already been published before the closing date of the competition. They also may not publish any drawings entered in the competition or reveal their identities before the jury reaches its decision, as well as before the European announcement of results. To do so will result in exclusion from the competition.

Questions about the rules

An online questions forum will be set up on the Europan Europe website. Entrants can post their questions on this forum until 18 May 2007. Answering questions about the rules is the task of Europan Europe, not the individual national secretariats. Answers on the rules will be grouped on the web forum by 25 May 2007.