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Welcome to the 1st edition of ADCE Student Awards!

ADCE’s first young competition is now open to students and recent graduates across creative disciplines.

For the first time, ADCE opens its doors to all young creatives—members and non-members— providing the new generation of talents the opportunity to gain visibility and make a strong start in their professional careers.

Extended deadline is October 15th.

All winners from ADCE Student Awards will form part of The One Club’s Global Creative College Rankings.

Eligibility
Eligible

• Entrants must be aged 18 or older.

• Entrants must be currently enrolled in an undergraduate university programme, graduate program, portfolio programme*

*If you are part of a non-traditional portfolio program or short-course, please reach out to ADCE Team to confirm your eligibility.

• Recent graduates are eligible. Graduation date must be no earlier than June 2023.

• Work must have been created during your student career – this includes coursework or personal projects.

• Participants do not have to be members of the Art Directors Club of Europe in order to participate in the ADCE Student Awards.

• Interns with no more than 2 years of previous professional experience in the advertising, marketing, design, or communications industry are eligible.

Non-Eligible

• PhD Candidates are not eligible.

• Students with more than two years of professional experience in the advertising, marketing, design, or communications industry are not eligible.

• Students working at an agency as a copywriter, art director or other professional position are not eligible. Interns are eligible.

Team Information

Teams may apply for the competition. There is no limit on the number of students per team. All team members should meet the above criteria (excluding any faculty advisors).

Team members may be from different schools or programs, but only one school can be listed as the Primary Credit. Additional schools should be listed under “Secondary Credits”. Primary and Secondary schools will split points in the Global Creative College Rankings.

How to submit
1 - Registration

Registration online only at:
adceuropestudent.awardhub.org

User & Password. Please create a new user to log into the platform

2 - Create your Profile

Please include the School / university as a credit.

Very Important: Please make sure that your ID or Passport nº are correct in order to generate the invoice for your submitted works.

3 - Start Submitting

Each entry form will be assigned an Entry ID number (automatically generated by the system).

You can fill in the online entry form and make any changes you consider necessary up to the final registration deadline on 27th September 2024. No modification will be allowed after that date.

If you won a Gold in any ADCE member student competition, please contact us to complete your submission for free.

Works submitted for judging in more than one category must be individually entered in each category.

In order to facilitate the submitting process, the online platform will offer the option to duplicate the basic information (title, description, credits, images, videos)

3 - Start Submitting: Images & Videos

All necessary images, video or sound files for the submitted works must be uploaded on the online entry platform.

Depending on the category, entries may only be required to upload digital material on the online entry platform.

4 - Checking Process

As soon as the work is submitted it will have access to the “Approval pending” status.

The ADCE will review all works and check their eligibility.

When approved, you’ll receive an email to allow you to start the payment process.

5 - Payment

Payment has to be done before the payment deadline October 20th.

*For all the Gold winning works, the fee is 0€. Please contact ADCE Team to complete your submission for free.

Note

Entry forms and work descriptions must be clear and correctly spelled in English, as this information will come from the form and used for promotional purposes (annual, exhibition, etc.).

Learn More
ADCE’s first young competition open to students and recent graduates across creative disciplines
The Jury
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ADCE Awards
If you are a professional or not eligible for this competition check out ADCE's main competition.