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 RESULTS OF THE 10TH SESSION OF EUROPAN: 56 WINNERS AND 67 RUNNERS-UP ON THE 62 EUROPEAN SITES

Results - In the 62 European cities proposing this session urban situations to find innovative ideas and to develop ambitious urban projects, 15 national juries composed of experts, selected, for the 10th session of Europan, 56 winners (prize 12.000 euro each one) and 67 runners-up ( prize 6000 euro each one), globally 123 prizes (1 074.000 euro). 85 teams received an honorable mention without prize.

Countries and Candidates - Launched in January 2009 simultaneously in 19 European countries (Austria - Belgium - Croatia - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Norway - Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland) the competitions received 4219 registrations of European teams living in about 50 countries in the world. 2429 teams (approximately 10.000 young professionals of less than 40 years) sent an entry.

Sites - On the general topic - Inventing urbanity: regeneration, revitalization, colonization - the candidates confronted themselves to 62 sites rather different of form and context but all having the same strategic topics of reconversion of the existing city, in the frame of the sustainable development, of the will to make the city appropriable by its citizens and of the valorization of the natural resources. These situations included for example the revitalization of moles with obsolete uses in the harbour of Dunkerque in France or Copenhagen in Denmark, the creation of intense polarities in disqualified suburban areas as in Oslo in Norway or Mora in Sweden, the residential urbanization arend public transport in Nürnberg in Germany or Ales in France, the creation of inhabited parks connecting urban fragments as in Teruel in Spain or Dietikon in Switzerland. But these contexts had all the same request for urbanity, for urban place to create animation, collective life in public space, while preserving the intimacy, the - at home - on a proximity scale. A European debate around the sites to compare them, to classify them in thematic families and to enrich their kontent took place before the launching during the Forum of the Sites in November 2008 in Paris.

Judgment 15 juries (150 members and substitutes), composed of personalities of the urban, architectural fields, of public and private command, evaluated the 2429 entries taking into account the proposed innovations in relation to the demands of the cities, their ability to formalize a vision to inform the responsible on the future of their sites, the possibility of the ideas of the young European professionals to be developed in time. The juries met twice at national level and, between the two meetings, took part, with the representatives of the sites, to a European debate around 431 preselected projects, during the Forum of the Cities and Juries in Graz in November 2009.

Winning teams - With an average age of 31 years, the 123 winning teams live in 24 different countries. For 54% of them they w on in the country where they inhabit and thus for 46% in another country. That confirms the interest of the young professionals to be confronted with foreign contexts. The most motivated teams in participating abroad come from Spain (10 on the 21 winning teams residing in Spain), of Italy (11 on the 12 winning teams residing in Italy); from France (6 teams on the 17 winning teams residing in France), of the Netherlands (6 teams on the 13 winnong teams residing at the Netherlands). The teams, winners and runners-up, are composed globally of 414 members, an average of 3,4 members per team but with important variations (from 1 member to 12 members per team). 41 of the 123 winning teams are interdisciplinary teams. Together, authors and collaborators, they are composed of 308 architects, 19 urbanplanners/architects, 4 urbanplanners, 18 landscape architects, 2 landscapers, 1 environmentalist, 8 engineer-architects, 6 engineers, 3 graphic designers, 2 historians, 1 artist, 1 economist, 1 movie maker and 53 architecture students.

Events - Each of the 19 participating countries will organize in its country, from January 18, an event and/or a ceremony to give their prices to the winning teams with the participation of the representatives of sites and the members of the juries. In the majority of the countries a catalogue will accompany these demonstrations.

On a European level the great rendez-vous will be May 28 and 29, 2010 in Neuchâtel in Switzerland with the European Forum of the Results - to the invitation of the Canton and the three cities of Neuchâtel, Le Locle and La Chauxde - Fonds for the prizes winners and runners-up of all Europe, the cities and the experts involved in the 10th session. A European catalogue will be published including the presentation of the winning projects and articles of analysis of the results.

Winner in REUS, Spain
CJ116 - Intervalos (INTERVALS) Aurélien Delchet (FR 1982), Repetto Gimena (HR 1976), Alexis Traficante (IT 1969), architects
Contributors : Jana Holečková (CZ 1983), Eduardo Cociffi (AR 1975), architects

Detailed results of each of 62 sites available on www.europan-europe.com