Notice: the deadline to send the projects (art. 3 of the present regulations) has been postponed to July 17th.
SCHOLARSHIP RULES FOR THE 2008-2009 SCHOOL YEAR
IED Rome grants 10 scholarships for enrollment and attendance of three-year courses for the 2008-2009 school year.
1. Costs and duration
Six full scholarships covering total enrollment and attendance costs in the first school year (adding up to 7,700 euros, fees included), renewable for the following two school years if the student passes the curriculum examinations of each year, achieving a score of 28/30, will be granted. In case the student fails to comply with that, the scholarship shall not be renewed.
Four partial scholarships covering 50% of the enrollment and attendance costs in the first school year (adding up to 3,850 euros, fees included), renewable for the following two school years if the student passes the curriculum examinations of each year, achieving a score of 28/30, will be granted. In case the student fails to comply with that, the scholarship shall not be renewed.
Scholarships are to be distributed among the four IED Schools, as follows:
IED Visual Arts - 2 full scholarships; 1 partial scholarship
IED Modalab - 2 full scholarships; 1 partial scholarship
IED Design - 1 full scholarship; 1 partial scholarship
IED Communication - 1 full scholarship; 1 partial scholarship
2. Admission Requirements
Young Italians born within 1983 and 1990, who have a 5-year college degree (or a 4-year degree in an Arts School) or who shall achieve that degree in the current school year are admitted for selection. European or foreign citizens born within 1983 and 1990 who have an equivalent degree to the ones required for Italian citizens and master both spoken and written Italian and English are also eligible for admission. The last requirement will be evaluated in case the project remitted is selected.
Those who hold a IED diploma or similar are not eligible for selection.
IED employees and consultants are not admitted either.
3. Deadline, conditions and general terms
Projects should be sent by post to: Istituto Europeo di Design, Via Giovanni Branca 122, 00153 Roma,
c.a. Servizio Informazioni e Orientamento, or by e-mail to: uncreativoalgiorno@ied.edu, no later than July 10, 2008. The expedition date shall be considered.
After preselection, projects will be published on the web site http://uncreativoalgiorno.com.
In order to be published, projects should be presented in accordance to the terms described in section 6 of this regulation and must also include the identifying entry card attached.
Incomplete projects, which do not meet the requirements, or which do not have the elements referred above, or which contain wrong or unreadable data, or sent after midnight, July 10, 2008, will not be considered valid. Intransgressible conditions to which applicants guarantee and respond when submitting the project are:
- The applicant must be the only person to idealize and make the project, that this project is original and not resultant of a copy or plagiarism.
- The project must not be under any property or royalty rights, or copyrighted.
The jury may, unquestionably, exclude from the selection any projects that do not comply with the above
terms.
IED Rome does not assume any responsibility for conditions that are not imputable to it and that shall
compromise the project remittance, such as: losses or delays due to the post office, malfunctioning of
electronic devices.
Applicants authorize their personal data to be used in compliance to the law D.L. 196, dated June 30,
2003.
The material remitted by the applicants will not be returned and may be used freely by IED Rome,
without any economic charges.
Projects published on the web site uncreativoalgiorno.com will be object of comments, public appraisals and voting sped up exclusively for statistical aims.
4. Evaluation, attribution and communication to winning applicants
The project evaluation will be conducted by a jury made of: 4 principals (or school representatives) of Design, Visual Arts, Fashion and Communication Schools; 2 professors. The jury will be presided by IED Rome Head Office Director. The evaluation will be made by the jury judgment, unquestionably. The authors of the best projects will be called to an interview at IED Rome Head office. Winning applicants will be communicated by telephone by IED Rome. Winning applicants must send a formal acceptation letter by e-mail to uncreativoalgiorno@ied.edu, within three days after the result is received. If the winning applicant fails to meet this requirement, the scholarship will be automatically considered as ‘refused’ and the jury may decide, unquestionably, to grant it to another applicant. After the applicant accepts the scholarship, he/she will have a 10-day deadline to enroll in the course to which the scholarship was granted.
5. Disputes
Any eventual dispute will be sent to a unique judge nominated in accordance to both parties, or in case of disagreement, by the Chairperson of Rome’s Camera di Commercio, Industria e Artigianato. The conciliation without any judicial intervention will happen in Rome. The judge will decide 120 days after the dispute is opened. Both parties must be willing to fulfil the judge’s decision immediately.
6. Themes and presentation criteria for the projects
The contest theme is: I am me. Ideas and objects to represent yourself and your time
For each IED area a briefing has been defined.
Applicants must develop the theme relating to the three-year course area he/she wishes to apply for the scholarship.
Three-year Courses: Industrial Design, Interior Design, Set Design, Interior Design (in English).
Briefing: design an object capable of interpreting your personality and your time
Three-year courses: Graphic, Digital & Virtual Design, Photography, Multimedia Illustration and Animation, Video Design, Sound Design
Briefing: express yourself designing a visual communication tool, such as a “promocard”, which represents your personality
Three-year courses: Advertising, Marketing and Corporate Communication, Event Design and Management.
Briefing: express your personality creating your own social and relationship network (your own blog or personal account on MYSPACE®)
Three-year courses: Fashion Design, Jewellery Design, Accessory and Shoe Design, Fashion Communication.
Briefing: design a personal T-shirt which represents yourself and your time.
Project Presentation:
Mandatory:
1. identifying entry card (download attached document)
2. your project title
3. your idea (10 lines maximum)
4. description of your project (30 lines maximum)
5. at least 4 pictures or drawings which display your idea.
JPG images 1000 pixels width
Optional:
Audio or video file 30 seconds maximum