Fab City Awards 2025
The Open Call is Live!
We’re delighted to announce that the open call for the Fab City Awards: Empowering Citizens for Urban Regeneration is now open. We invite you to submit your project for the chance to present your project at FAB25. The deadline for submissions is May 2nd 2025.
About the Fab City Awards
This open call welcomes applications from projects that engage with community-driven climate action, sustainable technology, circular innovation, regenerative ecosystems and biodiversity.
We are looking for projects from individuals or communities, Fab Labs, makerspaces, educational institutions, industry, nonprofits and governments.
Get your applications in before May 2nd.
Application Guidelines
Find out if your project is eligible by going through the application guide and reading through the terms and conditions.
Submission Categories
This year projects must fall under under all 3 categories:
🤝 Community-Driven Climate Action
♻️ Sustainable Technology & Circular Innovation
🐝 Regenerative Ecosystems & Biodiversity.
Make sure that your project speaks to all of these themes when you apply.
Community-Driven Climate Action
Projects emphasising participatory governance, citizen science and creative interventions for climate resilience.
Sustainable Tech & Circular Innovation
Projects leveraging technology to promote circular economy practices, eco-design and regenerative materials.
Regenerative Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Solutions restoring and enhancing ecosystems, strengthening biodiversity and fostering community stewardship.
Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible your project must meet the following conditions:- Projects must be piloted or in active implementation
- Projects must fit within all of the award sub-categories
- Initiatives must have been created or updated in 2020 or later
- Projects must adhere to ethical and legal standards and have a positive societal and environmental impact
- Projects from individuals, organizations, and collaborative teams can submit up to three entries
Prizes and Recognition
This year, the award winners will have a chance to travel to FAB25 and present their projects to a global audience. The winning projects will be awarded a travel fund of up to €1500 to attend the FAB25.
The winners of the awards will be invited to present their project at FAB25, with funding provided for a project representative to travel to the event in Czechia. These projects will also be featured across the DDP and Fab City Foundation platforms to help reach a global impact.
**Please refer to terms and conditions for more information on the prizes
Community-Led Climate Action Winner:
One FAB25 Ticket** + €1000 towards travelling to FAB25
Sustainable Tech & Circular Innovation Winner:
One FAB25 Ticket** + €1000 towards travelling to FAB25
Regenerative Ecosystems & Biodiversity Winner:
One FAB25 Ticket** + €1000 towards travelling to FAB25
Overall Impact Award Winner:
One FAB25 Ticket** + €1500 towards travelling to FAB25
The Jury
Tomas Duggan
Designer, IAAC& MDDI faculty, biodesign/material science expert
Cornwall, UK
Carolina Marini
Fab Manager & Head Designer
Instituto Fab Lab Brasil
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Victor Freundt
Design Researcher
Ministry of Foreign Trade & Tourism
Lima, Peru
Claire Chaikin-Bryan
Fab Lab Lead
Lake Macquarie City Council
Lake Macquarie, Australia
Beno Juarez
Founder & Director
Fab Lab Peru
Lima, Peru
Jinger Zeng
Contest Manager
Hackster.io
Cincinnati, United States
Marcia Sobreira
Managing Director
We.Flow Global
Curitiba, Brazil
Annie Ferlatte
Industrial Designer & Strategic Ecodesigner
Communautique
Montreal, Canada
Wolf Kuehr
Project Lead Communication
Fab City Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Massimo Bianchini
Associate Professor, School of Design, Lab Manager at Polifactory, Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy
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