Open Call: Innovate to Better Inhabit the World

Categories

• Sustainable Habitat in Tomorrow: Imagining ecological housing integrating environmentally friendly construction techniques and materials.
• Commerce and Artisan – Renewal: Rethinking the point of sale of tomorrow for a renewed experience with the craftsman and the individual (e-commerce, digital solutions, delivery method, customer experience, etc.).
• Building Professions: Better promote construction trades and feminize them (for Saint-Gobain or Saint-Gobain customers).
• Towards Sustainable Mobility: Inventing high-performance materials to create safe, sustainable individual and collective transport for the comfort of all.

Funding Information

• A total budget of €15,000 will be awarded to the top three teams in each of the four categories, for a total of 12 teams rewarded.
• Prize-1: The best teams in each category  will receive a prize of €2,000 , in the form of a Fnac card. A prize that rewards excellence and innovation!
• Prize-2: The teams ranked second in each category will be awarded a prize of €1,200 in the form of a Fnac card. Support to continue developing their ideas.
• Prize-3: The teams that come in third place in each category will receive a prize of €600 in the form of a Fnac card. A reward for their creativity and commitment!

Deliverables

• To be valid, the Deliverables must
  • Respond to the specific problem posed in the Brief.
  • Be in a classic digital format, such as doc, docx, pdf, ppt, pttx, key, odt, mp3, mpeg, mov, mp4.
  • Be in French, and generally, comply with the conditions set out in the Regulations.
• By submitting a Deliverable, Participants represent and warrant that:
  • The Deliverable is composed solely of contributions from one team.
  • Failing this, if content from a third party has been used in the development of the Deliverable, all rights, authorizations and agreements necessary to submit the Deliverable and grant the rights mentioned herein have been obtained. The existence of a contribution from a third party in violation of these rights will result in the disqualification of the Deliverable and the Participants concerned.
  • No other natural person and/or legal entity of any form may claim any right whatsoever arising from the use of the Deliverable.
  • The content of the Deliverable does not and will not violate any third party rights, including (but not limited to) intellectual property rights, privacy rights, competition rights, confidentiality rights, or any other contractual or non-contractual rights. Any Deliverable suspected of violating third party rights and/or one or more laws will be ineligible for the Challenge.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Challenge is open only to students:
  • Student aged eighteen (18) years and/or legally capable,
    • Currently a student enrolled in higher education or
    • A recent graduate of higher education for less than 2 years in relation to the current school year and able to prove this with a student card. Only one participation in the Challenge will be allowed per person. In the event that the person is a minor, provide this parental authorization duly completed and signed
  • Participation in the Challenge must be done as a team.
    • Teams. Individual participants may choose to form a team (the “Team”) of 2 to 5 members. Each member of the Team must accept the Rules, by clicking online via the Agorize interface. The Organizing Company may disqualify a Team (as well as all its members) in the event that one of the members has not accepted or has not complied with the obligations arising from the Rules.

Ineligibility Criteria

• This Challenge is not open to staff members of the Organizing Company and Agorize as well as members of their families.
• This Challenge is void where prohibited or restricted by applicable law or regulation.

Application Requirement

• To participate in the Challenge, the Participant must have created a user account on the Challenge Site, and provided the required information truthfully and completely, such as their surname, first name, email address, etc.
• Participants who have not provided proof of their full contact details and identities or who have provided them inaccurately or falsely will be disqualified, as will persons refusing the collection, recording and use of personal information concerning them and strictly necessary for the purposes of managing the Challenge. The information provided by the Participant as part of their registration for the Challenge is their responsibility and any error, anomaly, inconsistency, intentional or not, relating to the information communicated by the Participant is likely to result in their disqualification.
• The Organizing Company reserves the right to carry out all necessary checks concerning the identity, postal and/or electronic address of the Participants.
• The deletion of a Participant’s user account on the Challenge Site will be considered as an abandonment of the latter’s participation in the Challenge. In this case, the Participant, even if he is able to provide proof that this deletion is not his fault, will not be able to re-enter the Challenge, nor will he be able to obtain any compensation from the Organizing Company.
• Likewise, to participate in the Challenge, the Participant must have accepted these Rules as well as the General Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy of Agorize, when registering and creating the user account.
• Registration and participation in the Challenge is completely free, and there is no obligation to purchase.

For more information, visit Agorize.