1 - Definition
The objective of Europan is to bring to the fore Europe’s young architecture and urban design professionals, and to publicise and develop their ideas. Its objective is also to help cities and developers which have provided sites to find innovative architectural and urban solutions for the transformation of urban locations. EUROPAN 9 is a European federation of national organisations, which manages architectural competitions followed by building or study projects, launched simultaneously by several countries on common theme, objectives and rules. The open competitions are anonymous and public calls for ideas on a European scale.

2 - Candidature
Europan 9 is open to any team of young urban and architectural design professionals (architects, urban planners, landscape designers, engineers). Teams may also include young professionals from other disciplines. All candidates must be under 40 years old on the closing date for submission of entries.

3 - Information
From Monday 5 February 2007, every entrant or team has free access to the European’s website www.europan-europe.com, where they can download and print the rules, the themes and the synthetic presentations of the 73 sites of the session, classified according to thematic families.

4 - Participation

Each team registers on the Web site and makes a payment on line of 100 Euros (50 for people from and living in former socialist system’s countries), in order to download a complete file of site in English (and possibly in the language of the country of the site).
This includes detailed written documents on the city, the site, its context, and the developers' intentions, as well as plans, photographs, and all visual documents necessary for design work. Each supplementary complete site folder will be charged at the rate of 50 Euros per folder.

5 - Elements to be submitted
The entry must comprise:

• three A1-format panels
• 2 copies of an A3-format bound document
• 2 copies of a Cdrom/DVD with the panels A1 in 300 dpi (PDF, size A3) and 72 dpi (PDF, web size) resolutions and the bound document, in 300dpi (PDF, size A3) resolution 
• an A4-format sealed envelope containing documents revealing the competitors identity and proof that the proposal meets all the qualification requirements 

6 - Judging
In each country, a national jury, whose composition - 9 personalities and the substitutes - is published on the Website, examines all the projects entered in its country.
The jury meets in two distinct sessions. During the first one, it examines the conformity of the projects in relation to the competition theme, and shortlists a maximum of 20% of the projects entered, for the quality of their ideas. During the second session, the jury examines the short-listed projects in terms of their innovative qualities and suitability to the context into which they are inserted. It thus chooses winning and runner-up projects with prizes and possibly gives a mention to complementary projects.
A European forum with the members of the juries and the representatives of sites is organized between the two sessions of judging in order to debate of the short-listed projects in relation with the thematic families of sites.

7 - Prizes
The winners and runners-up receive a prize of 12,000 and 6,000 Euros (including tax) respectively.

8 - Communication
The organisers undertake to publicise all prize-winning entries both nationally and throughout Europe by way of exhibitions, meetings and publications with a European catalogue of all the results.

9 - Implementations
Europan guarantee to use all means necessary to incite cities and/or planners off-sites to entrust the prize-winning teams with operational follow-through.

10 - European Forum of results
To coincide with the closing of the ninth EUROPAN session, an event is held in June 2008 comprising both an international exhibition of the results and debates on the prize-winning entries and their practical feasibility. The winners and runners-up are invited.