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Schools Concrete Trophy

Entry deadline: 31/10/2025
The Trophée béton Écoles is organized by the Bétocib, CIMbéton and Fondation École Française du Béton associations, under the patronage of the French Ministry of Culture, in partnership with Maison de l’architecture Île-de-France, AMC magazine and the AAIIA association.

Its aim is to reveal future professionals, sponsor them and offer them visibility at the dawn of their professional lives.

The competition has 4 prizes:

  • 3 prizes for the PFE Concrete Trophy: Future architects can enter their final-year projects using concrete to good effect. Reserved for students who have submitted their PFE for the 2024 and 2025 sessions, at a French school of architecture, or who have obtained a double architect-engineer diploma.
    Candidates may enter either individually, or as part of a team comprising at least one student architect or architect-engineer, and may also include other student architects and/or other student engineers.
    Candidate architects who have not formed a team, but who would like the support of a student engineer, can submit a request to the Trophée béton secretariat, within a reasonable time, so that the request can be met.
  • 1 special prize for the Trophée béton STUDIO: All architecture students in the course of their studies (Licence 1, 2, 3 and Master 1) during the academic year 2024-2025 can participate by freely reinterpreting an emblematic work of concrete architecture built throughout the world in the 20th or 21st century.
    Candidates must present themselves individually.

The prices break down as follows:

  • PFE 1st prize: €5,000
  • 2nd PFE prize: €4,000
  • 3rd PFE prize: €3,000
  • STUDIO price: €2,000
  • Special mention for architects-engineers or engineers-architects

Application deadline: 10/31/2025

Access the competition rules on the Trophée Béton website
  

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