Competitions open to architecture students are numerous and varied. The themes are rich and the prizes often motivating.
Access the Call for project platform to consult the latest news on competitions and calls for projects in architecture and urban planning and/or discover a selection in this section:
Registration deadline: September 30, 2026
The Maison de l’architecture Île-de-France awards two annual prizes recognizing the work of students at schools in the Île-de-France region: the Graduation Project Prize and the Thesis Prize.
The 2026 edition is open to students enrolled in a Master’s 2 program during the 2025–2026 academic year.
Application deadline: 01/07/2026
Run by the Maison étudiante de la Ville de Paris, Créart’UP provides annual support for students and recent graduates (less than two years old) from Paris and the Île-de-France region wishing to develop an artistic or cultural project and gain professional experience in the arts and culture sector.
Eligible fields are: music, theater, dance, visual arts, audiovisual, design, fashion, performance, digital cultural projects, and more broadly all innovative artistic and cultural projects.
Application deadline: 04/09/2026
Organized every year since 2010 by the QUALITEL Association, this competition rewards a housing construction or renovation project devised by architecture students during their studies, focusing in particular on quality of use, environmental performance and innovation.
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.
