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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Can I participate?
Every student with an innovative and sustainable mindset who can design, present and build, can participate.
Maybe you are a student within engineering, architecture, design, production or business development.
And most certainly you have a great desire to help create a greener festival and a greener world.
You can sign up as an individual or a group up to 5 participants. If you are an individual, you can apply to be put together with other people forming a new group.
Want to be a part of the Sustainability Challenge ?
Send us an e-mail, and we will contact you, when we
accept applicants for the
Sustainability Challenge 2024
I hereby agree that when I sign up to participate in the case competition, IDA may share my name and contact information with VELUX and Roskilde Festival, and that they are allowed to contact me with further information in relation to the case competition.
NB: To qualify for participation in the Sustainability Challenge 2023, you must be able to attend our workshops and events in Denmark.
But don´t worry; you can still sign up to participate in the competition in our Jutland location. If you would like to join us in Jutland, send an email to:
Alexandra from VELUX @ alexandra.schumann@velux.com
Please include the following details:
- Full name
- Phone number
- City
- University
- Study programme
- Expected graduation year
- If you would like to attend as a group, individual or like to join a group
See the dates and programme below
Copenhagen is fully booked!
Online meeting 1
February 28th 2023 4PM
- Info on how to do the challenge plus expert session on sustainability, building, and materials.
LEARN MORE
More about Roskilde Festival and the Circular Lab
Roskilde Festival and The Circular Lab is aiming towards becoming a circular festival. Building a temporary city for 130.000 people over ten days sets a carbon footprint, but by minimizing waste, controlling the input streams, and designing circular solutions and circular business models where guests rent instead of owning, we can minimize the footprint and create a sustainable festival.
Roskilde Festival and The Circular Lab is looking for green solutions, and by participating in this challenge, your solutions will be exposed to the people behind the festival, who will consider the options for further developing your concepts together with you. If your solution has the right potential; we will support you in further developing your concept and test it at an even greater scale at Roskilde Festival 24.
The Circular Lab is Denmarks largest testplatform for new sustainable ideas. The purpose of the lab is to give young, green entrepreneurs an opportunity to test their solutions, products and business models so that they can gain knowledge about how their solutions perform.
The Circular Lab uses Roskilde Festival and other smaller festivals and events as testing platforms which makes testing very easy since the festivals are easily accessible and forgiving environments.
Rethink the way we “chill” at Roskilde Festival
– participate in the
challenge of the year!
Are you INNOVATIVE, can you PRESENT and BUILD?
And would you like to contribute to a more sustainable world? Then this is a case competition designed for you!
Come up with a proposal for furniture and functional designs so the guests at Roskilde Festival can “chill” in a more sustainable way.
The challenge this year is to design elements for a lounge area for the guests of Roskilde Festival, which they can use in between concerts.
It can be furniture (sitting or lying) or elements that either create a good frame for connecting people or creates privacy and a peaceful moment – a calm break from the crowds. It can also be a solution that provide a cover for the sun, wind, rain, or maybe even sound. It can support intimacy, fun moments or just plain “hygge”.
You can design one item or several different items - the possibilities are many! - and the only demands are that the solution is sustainable and that the solution can be build and used at Roskilde Festival 2023.
Case competition
Sustainability Challenge 2023
VELUX & Roskilde Festival
- Expert knowledge, professional feedback and network
- An opportunity to experience your idea become reality
- Social and professional events
- A Partout ticket to Roskilde Festival 2023
- An invitation to become part of the Circular Lab; Denmark´s largest testing platform for sustainable ideas and green entrepreneurs
- The possibility to do your internship or getting a student position at VELUX
- Diplomas for both participants and winners
WHAT DO I GET OUT OF THIS EXPERIENCE?
WHAT DATES DO I NEED TO BE AWARE OF?
Online meeting 2
March 7th 2023 4PM
- Info on how to do the challenge plus expert session on sustainability, building, and materials.
Physical meeting 1 - Presentation Day - CPH
BLOX, Copenhagen
March 26nd 2023 9 AM to 8 PM
- Physcial attendance mandatory either in Jutland or CPH.
- You present your idea on PowerPoint and possible models to the jury.
Physical meeting 1 - Presentation Day - Jutland
Aarhus
April 2nd 2023 9 AM to 8 PM
- Physcial attendance mandatory either in Jutland or in CPH.
- You present your idea on PowerPoint and possible models to the jury.
Physical meeting 2 - Project buildup - Jutland
VELUX Østbirk, Aarhus
May 14th 2023 9 AM to 8 PM
- Physcial attendance mandatory either in Jutland or CPH
- At this event you will build / assemble your project and showcase it to the Jury, who will decide who proceeds to Roskilde Festival
Physical meeting 2 - Project buildup, CPH
VELUX, Hørsholm
May 7th 2023 9 AM to 8 PM
- Physcial attendance mandatory either in Jutland or CPH.
- At this event you will build / assemble your project and showcase it to the jury, who will decide who proceeds to Roskilde Festival
If your project is chosen at the Physical Meeting 1, you will proceed to the Physical Meeting 2 in order to obtain the chance to proceed to Roskilde Festival and get the chance to become the challenge winner.
Workshop with the Circular Lab at Roskilde Festival - Copenhagen (optional)
May 2023
- How to gain most value of testing your product? At this workshop you will get some tools and learn how to gain the best possible insights, when you test your prototype real life.
Project buildup at Roskilde Festival (mandatory)
June 26th + 27th 2023
Materials
If your project is chosen at the “Physical Meeting 1 - Presentation day” to proceed in the competition, you will have about one month to finalize your project and to buy materials.
VELUX will pay for your materials, but you need to buy them yourself and you will then be reimbursed. Before buying the materials, you must have your purchase approved by VELUX.
Further information will follow.
Contact
For further information about
the Sustainability Challenge please contact:
Alexandra Schumann,
Project Manager @ VELUX
alexandra.schumann@velux.com
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STEP 6
Final project showing
June 28th 2023
- Jury selects the winner
