1. Europan is directed at young architects and young professionals in related creative fields, under forty years of age and from Europe .

2. Europan is a call for ideas followed by implementations .

3. Europan is a European architectural federation of national organisations , each of which organises and manages an architectural competition followed by implementations launched simultaneously on a common theme and with common objectives.

4. Rules and judging methods are identical in all the participating countries. The competitions are open, public, European and anonymous calls for ideas . Competitors can register freely in the country of their choice.

5. A series of urban sites in European towns, accompanied by a programme brief, is proposed to competitors. It is from these sites that competitors must choose the one(s) on which they want to submit their project(s).

6. Each entry must have two aspects . The first one is a strategic reflection project that responds to the problems the session is dealing with, in relation to the urban challenges, and the thematic orientations of the session, on the urban scale of the chosen site. The second aspect is an executable architectural project whose programme includes some housing on a clearly defined area of the site.

7. In each country, a national jury judges the strategic reflection projects and the architectural projects on the sites in the country in question. On a European level, the Europan Scientific Committee makes a thematic and comparative analysis of the strategic reflection projects that have been selected by each national jury.

8. Each of the national competitions has its own jury that designates winners and runners-up , to whom prizes are awarded.

9. Prize-winning teams are then helped by the Europan organisers to secure commissions that will be implemented .

10. Prize-winning proposals are exhibited and published . Each session offers the occasion for meetings organised between associates, organisers, town representatives, professionals, juries and competitors during European events such as the Forum of Sites, Towns and Juries Forum and the Forum of the Results .