Through the Endeavours category, we encourage professionals, the civil society, and public administrations to engage in innovative and speculative architectural projects that go beyond the boundaries of traditional practice and that, through their nature or activities, contribute to increasing the quality and understanding of the architectural object and practice. This category serves as a platform for architects, designers, and thinkers to explore new ideas, methodologies, and technologies that challenge conventional understandings of space, functionality, and aesthetics.
In this category, experiment becomes possible, offering participants the opportunity to present how architecture can respond to evolving societal, technological, and environmental challenges. By entering this category, contributors can influence the future direction of architectural design and theory, creating a tangible impact on the profession and the community.
In the Endeavours category, we aim to celebrate, recognise, and promote visions, initiatives, and experiments in the field of architecture and related disciplines, together with their creators.
Imagine categorie: premiu secțiunea Căutări 2024: Reabilitarea ambarcațiunii Pelicanul, Bogdan Demetrescu, Dan Crâsnic, D PROIECT S.R.L., Timișoara, România, credite foto: Bogdan Demetrescu, Alexandrina Ciortuz.
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What projects can be submitted in this category?
In this category, realised or speculative projects may be submitted, including:
- architectural education;
- participatory initiatives;
- public policies;
- new materials, material studies;
- object design;
- guided tours;
- summer schools, creative camps;
- research projects;
- cultural projects in the field of architecture.
The submitted projects must have been started or completed during the period July 2024 – July 2026. Projects started before July 2024 may also be submitted, provided that they are still in the process of being implemented. Works may be submitted either if they are located within the DKMT Euroregion or if they belong to authors who have permanent residence in the DKMT Euroregion or who have completed their studies at a specialized university within the DKMT Euroregion.
Commissioned, unrealised works, or architecture, design, or public space projects created specifically for participation in other competitions, may not be submitted in this category. (For example: a non-winning project submitted to Europan cannot be entered as an initiative in the Beta Awards.)
Who can participate in this category?
Projects initiated by members of the professional community, the civil administration, or civil society may be submitted in this category.
Before starting the registration process for the Beta Awards, we recommend that you carefully read the rules and the application guide.
For registration for the Beta Awards, you will need to:
- to fill in the registration form for the category/subcategory you wish to participate in. Please prepare all the necessary information and materials for upload in advance. In the application guide, you will find all the required documents to help you prepare your materials ahead of time.
- you should prepare your exhibition panel according to the following layout — Layout_01. It will be uploaded in the registration form in JPEG, JPG, or PNG format, with a resolution between 150 and 300 dpi, and a maximum file size of 20 MB. For this category, your exhibition panel must contain: a site plan, optionally — if applicable, floor plans with legends, if applicable, photographs of the work, from events, of the project results, any other diagrams, analysis materials, or specific details necessary for understanding the project.
- to prepare the images for the website. You will need to upload a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 10 representative images of the project. Each image must not exceed 1.5 MB.
DKMT
The DKMT Euroregion is a European cross-border cooperation region (DKMT referring to the territory between the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa rivers) which currently includes the counties of Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad, and Hunedoara in Romania, the counties of Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun in Hungary, and the province of Vojvodina in Serbia.