Europan is a biennial competition for young architects under 40 years of age to design innovative housing and urban planning for sites across Europe.
[4] The aim of the competition is to find innovative and experimental approaches for locations proposed by European cities and to promote dialogue on architecture and urban planning locally and internationally, as well as to support talented young architects from the announcement to the realisation of their ideas.
Europan offers young European architects the opportunity to make a name for themselves internationally outside the ordinary competition system, with extraordinary designs.
This is favoured by the possibility of also working on locations outside the own national border, as well as the great attention that the competition and its publications enjoys in expert circles.
Previous award winners include some well-known offices such as Riegler Riewe (Graz, Austria), MVRDV (Netherlands), NL Architects (Netherlands), Njiric & Njiric (Croatia) and nbundm* (Ingolstadt, Munich).