Trophée Qualitel Jeunes Talents Architecture 2026

Application deadline: 24/09/2026

Each year, this competition rewards architects, designers, engineers, artists and urban planners from all over the world who imagine bold and disruptive current or future architectural projects focusing on submersible land, sea and space, in order to build tomorrow’s new sustainable living environments at national and international level.

The competition is free and open to students and professionals from all over the world.
  

Entry deadline: 31/10/2026

The Trophée Béton Écoles invites future architecture professionals to consider the aesthetic, technical and environmental qualities of concrete.

It is organized by the Bétocib association, CIMbéton and the Fondation École Française du Béton, under the patronage of the French Ministry of Culture, in partnership with the Maison de l’architecture Île-de-France and the AAIIA association.

Deadline for teacher registration: midnight, March 15, 2026
Deadline for transmission of projects selected by teachers: midnight, July 14, 2026

Co-organized by the DRIEAT and the DRAC d’Île-de-France since 2023, this competition, which is open to students at architecture schools in the Paris region, rewards the best projects for the architectural and energy-efficient transformation and renovation of existing buildings.

It aims to acculturate these future architects to the design of a transformation project by confronting them with real built sites. The projects are carried out as part of their studies, with the support of teachers who help them discover the subtleties and richness of working with existing architecture, while raising their awareness of buildings’ energy needs and ways of reducing them.

Deadline for entries: April 1, 2026
The competition is open to architecture students at the end of their studies (Master 2) or ADE graduates in 2025. They must enter as a team of two to four members.

Valode & Pistre launches the 3rd edition of its Archi Jeunes competition, on the theme of “Transformations”.

The 2026 event is designed to highlight the transformation of existing buildings, seen as a major lever for innovation, sustainability and contemporary creation. Candidates are invited to give new meaning, use and quality to four emblematic sites in France, which will be unveiled once the applications have been validated.

Application deadline: March 25, 2026
The call for applications is open to architects and architecture graduates, with one or more other specialists (please refer to the selection procedures specific to each residence).

As part of the 6th edition of the residency program, supported by the Caisse des dépôts Mécénat, the Conseil national de l’Ordre des architectes and the French Ministry of Culture, Maisons de l’architecture offers teams of specialists organized around an architect or architecture graduate, the opportunity to create a cultural project during a residency in a given territory and context.

For several weeks, these residents work in immersion, living on site and meeting local players (residents, elected representatives, etc.).

Application deadline: April 28, 2026

Created in 2019, the Student COAL Prize aims to support students from Schools in the artistic and cultural field who are experimenting with and proposing concrete, creative solutions to the ecological transition.

The theme of the 2026 edition is “Night”.

Two prizes are on offer this year: the winning student receives a two-month residency worth 5,000 euros in one of France’s 350 nature reserves. The three nominated students also receive an invitation to take part in the Regenerative Academy. This unique masterclass, created and piloted for the new MAIF Métamorphoses Prize, is dedicated to transformative artistic practices in and with nature, biodiversity and public engagement.

The call for applications is open to all students who have completed 2 years of higher education, whatever their practice and field of study (design and applied arts, architecture and landscape, visual arts, music, dance, theater, circus, puppetry, cinema, audiovisual, multimedia) and up to one year after graduation.