The prize for the most essential, the simplest object in our future every day’s life.
Online contest organized by Alessandro Garofalo with the technical support of <ahref Foundation
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Alessandro Garofalo launches a contest for the selection of innovative design ideas. The Best idea will be the one that with a simple approach will help many people accomplish their everyday tasks. We are looking for the products with no instruction manual, made for the 99%ers. We want to select good design: innovative and functional while beautiful and cheap. We would like to see out of the box thinking and innovative approaches to solve inconvenient situations that happen so often in our lives.
The contest is open to women between 18 and 36 years old. Groups, companies and association cannot participate.
The participation is free of charge. The contest will close the 30th of April, CET time zone. The participation process can be done only via web at storygrant.civiclinks.it.
In order to participate the candidate will upload her work and her CV. Additionally, it will also be possible to present a small portfolio with three selected products that were personally developed in the past.
The proposal could be presented in two forms: via a pdf or via a video (previously uploaded on youtube).
The participant will first create her personal user profile on storygrant.civiclinks.it, then she will accept the General Usage agreement and the Italian Privacy law. Finally the participant will be able to upload her work and CV. Eventually she could upload a selection of three previously developed projects.
Via the participation in the Contest the participant accepts the regulation of this contest, the General Usage Agreement, the Italian privacy Law and the decisions of the commission, that will be non disputable.
The winner of the Contest will have the opportunity of organizing, with the economical and logistical support of Alessandro Garofalo, a cultural and educational experience in the USA, more specifically in Boston. Visit to top research laboratories and companies will be organized accordingly to the needs and whishes of the winner and the network of Alessandro Garofalo.
The total amount of the cost sustained for the trip will be up to 5K€ everything included. Moreover, if the winner will be interested, there will be an additional 6 month consultancy activity offered free of charge in order to support the start up phase of the potential new company.
The commission will choose autonomously and the results will be not disputable. The communication to the winner will be done before 1st of June 2014 and will be done via e-mail and on the platform storygrant.civiclinks.it.
Every participant guarantee that the idea presented is original and a creation of her own creativity. Moreover, the participant guarantee that she owns the IP and the copyright and that she will be accountable towards third parties that claim the IP to Alessandro Garofalo and Fondazione <ahref.
The participant that applies to the contest authorizes the usage of her personal data according to the Italian Privacy Law for the specific use of entering the platform and participating. More info and a link to the “Informativa sulla Privacy” on storygrant.civiclinks.it.
Every data given from the participant will be used from Fondazione <ahref accordingly to the Italian Law D.Lgs. 196/2003 (“Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali”). Fondazione <ahref, Vicolo Dallapiccola 12, 38122 Trento is the “Il titolare del trattamento dei dati personali”.
In order to inquire about the data, in order to modify or delete them the participant can send an email to [email protected]
Accordingly to the Italian Law D.P.R. n. 430/2001, the Sonia’s Simplicity contest is not a “Manifestazione a premio” because the output will be the production of artistic or scientific artifacts where the awarding of the prize to the author of the artifacts represents the acknowledging of the personal merit of the author or a encouraging title in the interest of the community.
