Over the past ten years approx. 4,000 projects have been submitted to contractworld, Europe's biggest competition for interior design projects. This time a panel of international judges will select twelve winners from 620 entries in the traditional product categories Office, Hotel, Shop and the new, annually alternating category Education/Training/Healthcare.

Four special awards will be presented this year exclusively to architects aged under forty who have distinguished themselves through their avant-garde projects. Following an official session of a panel of experts, the judges will draw up a shortlist of New Generation stars for each of the keynote categories. The final selection of the winners will be based on the presentations made by the short-listed candidates in front of a "live panel" during contractworld.congress.