An Opportunity to Participate in Cool Abu Dhabi Competition 2020

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Nonprofit organization

Department of Municipalities and Transport

Area

Middle East

Host Country

United Arab Emirates

Deadline

12 May 2020

Study level

Undergraduate

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

Algeria , Comoros , Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Mauritania , Oman , Qatar , Somalia , Syria , United Arab Emirates , Bahrain , Djibouti , Iraq , Kuwait , Libya , Morocco , Palestine , Saudi Arabia , Sudan , Tunisia , Yemen

Eligible Region

All Regions

The Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) of Abu Dhabi invites participants from all over the world to participate in a creative ideas competition to improve outdoor comfort in public by mitigating the impact of the Urban Heat Island Effect in the city. The competition is open to all; but is specifically looking for designers, architects, engineers, landscape architects, material scientists, educators, researchers, students, artists and/or inter-disciplinary.

Eligibility:

The entry must not have been previously published or exhibited anywhere in the world.
The design must be kept confidential until the results of the competition are published.
Designs that are found to infringe the intellectual property right of others will be disqualified.
Persons affiliated with the DMT are not eligible to submit design entries
There are no restrictions on team size and/or makeup.
It is recommended (but not mandatory) that the team be comprised of interdisciplinary members
There is no fee to enter
DMT may edit the content of proposals or use only portions of proposals to make the proposals public.
DMT is not committed to selecting any of the entrants, including the winners of the competition, for future design work or contracts.
DMT is not committed to develop or implement any of the ideas submitted.
This includes company names, team member names, contact information, and logos. Inclusion of such information may result in disqualification.
The judging process will be blind, and entries will remain anonymous until after evaluations are complete.

Required Documents:

PROJECT OVERVIEW 500-word maximum Project Overview, text only in the field provided on the website.
TEN-PAGE PROJECT PRESENTATION

PDF format only
Landscape A4 size ( 297mm wide × 210mm high)
The minimum embedded image resolution of 300ppi strongly recommended.
20MB size limit. Title pages will count towards the ten-page maximum.
Additional pages past the max page count will not be evaluated.
Please name file *{entryname}_project.pdf.*

TWO PROJECT DISPLAY BOARDS

PDF format only
Landscape A0 in size (1189mm wide × 841mm high).
The minimum embedded image resolution of 150ppi strongly recommended.
50MB size limit.
Please name file *{entryname}_boards.pdf.*

TWO-MINUTE VIDEO.

mp4 or .mov format.
Minimum resolution of 720p (1280px × 720px) strictly enforced.
No file size limit.
Please name file *{entryname}_video.{mp4/mov}.*

Award:

$100,000

About DMT:

The Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) was established by Law No. 30 of 2019. The DMT guides, regulates and monitors urban development activities. The expert authority improves municipal work to provide comprehensive services and creates higher living standards for residents through the supervision and management of the municipalities. The DMT ensures the highest standards of safety, security, sustainability and technological developments of land, air and maritime transport networks of the Emirate, in line with the highest international standards and UAE legislation.

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