Applications are open for Pro Carton Young Designers Award 2021. Pro Carton is the European Association of Carton and Cartonboard manufacturers. Its main purpose is to promote the use of cartons and cartonboard to brand owners, the trade as well as designers, the media and politicians as an economically and ecologically balanced packaging medium.

Despite a global crisis, the Pro Carton Young Designers Award is proving to be a huge success year after year. Europe’s leading annual young talent competition for packaging design is open for entries now.

Focussing exclusively on carton board, the award plays a pioneering role in promoting sustainability as well as innovation in the European packaging industry and its supply chain. Teachers can make the award a course project for the coming academic year. If you are a student, please encourage your teachers to let you participate.

Categories 

• Creative Cartonboard Packaging: Eat & Drink
• Creative Cartonboard Packaging: All other
• Creative Cartonboard Ideas
• Save the Planet

Benefits

• For the 5 main winners – the prize for each of the winners is a three to four-day visit to Mayr-Melnhof Karton and practical training at Mayr-Melnhof Packaging International, both in Austria. A unique and memorable experience.
• A trophy and certificate.
• The winner of the Public Award will win an iPad and a certificate.
• International publicity and recognition.

Eligibilities

• The Pro Carton Designers Award is open to all design students in Europe who are not working as professionals. Applicants must not have completed their studies before the summer of 2021 (proof is to be supplied with the entry, e.g. student enrollment document).
• An entry gives the organisers the right to showcase the submitted concepts in a public exhibition, including publication, promotion and documentation of the competition.