2025 Application Now Open for the WEGE PRIZE (open to college/university students around the world): Submit your Application!
WEGE PRIZE 2025
Wege Prize, organized by Kendall College of Art and Design’s Wege Center for Sustainable Design with support from the Wege Foundation, is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign the way economies work.
Participants contend for $65,000 (USD) in total cash prizes, all while helping to show the world what the future of problem solving looks like.
Over the course of nine months, from the opening of the application period through the final presentation and awards event, teams will compete to advance through up to four distinct phases, growing their ideas from an informal proposal into a robust and feasible solution informed by research, market analysis, and real-world prototyping and testing. Each step of the way, they will be guided by direct feedback from a panel of expert judges who will help them strengthen their ideas, push the limits of possibility, and support bringing their plans into fruition.
Application Due date is 06 October 2024
PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS
PLEASE NOTE: WEGE PRIZE IS A TEAM COMPETITION—INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPATION IS NOT ALLOWED.
TO BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN WEGE PRIZE, TEAMS MUST:
- Have exactly five membersRepresent at least three (3) different academic disciplines
- Represent at least two (2) different institutions of higher education, such as colleges, universities, or separate colleges/schools within a larger university. (For instance, a team member from Example University’s School of Engineering and a team member from Example University’s School of Earth Sciences would be considered as representing two different institutions.)
- These are the minimum requirements. Teams with the greatest disciplinary and institutional diversity will likely have a higher probability of success.
TO BE ELIGIBLE TO JOIN A TEAM, INDIVIDUALS MUST:
Attend a college, university, or equivalent institution of higher education anywhere in the worldBe a student enrolled in a full-time (or equivalent) undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate program, for the duration of the competition*Teams can be composed of a mix of undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students if they so choose. *If you are graduating before May of the competition year, you must still be a student until at least the Phase 2 deadline.
For more details and to apply, Visit Official Website Here
