1.The Ministry of Education (hereunder referred to as the “MOE”) has established the Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) and formulated these Implementation Directions in order to stimulate the design creativity of students around the world, make the achievements of Taiwan's art and design education more widely known, and strengthen international interactions with Taiwan’s outstanding designers.

2.The TISDC has five entry categories: product design, visual design, digital animation, architecture and landscape design, and fashion design.

3.Entrants in the TISDC shall meet the following eligibility requirements:

(a) Be a senior secondary or higher level student in Taiwan or abroad.

(b) Be 30 years of age or younger. For female applicants who have had any children before or at the age of 30, this age limit may be extended by two years for each pregnancy.

4.Each TISDC entry shall meet the following requirements:

(a) The entry is an original work created by the entrant.

(b) All the concepts, text, imagery, forms, photos, video, audio, music, and animation of any sort contained in the entry and any process used to create the entry does not involve any counterfeit, plagiarism, or other infringement of any other person’s intellectual property rights.

5.Entrants shall comply with the following rules:

(a) Respect the decisions made by the TISDC selection committees.

(b) If the work entered for the TISDC has already been published, or has received an award or is currently being evaluated in another competition, before the TISDC prize-winning works are announced, the entrant shall take the initiative to inform the MOE and this will be important reference information to be considered in the selection process.

(c) An entrant is not permitted to make a request of, lobby, bribe, threaten, or interfere with any selection committee, or with the selection process, in any other way.

6.The MOE will set up a preliminary selection committee and a final selection committee for each category of the competition and appoint scholars and experts in the field of design from Taiwan and abroad to serve as committee members.

7.The duties of each preliminary selection committee are:

(a) To formulate the selection criteria for the preliminary selections.

(b) To recommend a list of entrants for the TISDC final selection.

(c) To review and decide on other important matters related to the TISDC preliminary selections.

8.The duties of each final selection committee are:

(a) To formulate the selection criteria for the final selections.

(b) To conduct the final selections.

(c) To review and decide on the TISDC prize winners for that category.

(d) To review and decide on other important matters related to the TISDC final selections.

9.The overall TISDC prize and the prizes awarded in each of the categories are:

(a) The annual Grand Prix (one winner selected from entrants in all five categories): NTD $400,000, and an award certificate.

(b) Gold Prizes (one awarded in each category): NTD $250,000, and an award certificate.

(c) Silver Prizes (one awarded in each category): NTD $150,000, and an award certificate.

(d) Bronze Prizes (one awarded in each category): NTD $60,000, and an award certificate.

(e) Honorable Mentions (several awarded in each category): NTD $10,000, and an award certificate.

(f) Special Sponsor Prizes (several awarded in each category): A monetary-prize of no more than the amount awarded for the gold prize, and an award certificate.

The awarding of any prize referred to in the preceding paragraph may be cancelled and any of those prizes may be adjusted if a final selection committee passes a resolution to do so. If any entry has won any award in the same year in any competition listed as part of the MOE’s IDC International Design Competition program, the final selection committee will determine the amount to be awarded based on merit, and the monetary prize is not limited to an amount specified in the preceding paragraph.

The TISDC award certificates will be issued in the name of the Minister of Education and presented in an award ceremony held at a public venue to recognize the prize-winners.

10.Prize-winners shall comply and cooperate with the following matters:

(a) Provide detailed information about the prize-winning work to be used for media coverage and exhibitions.

(b) During the three years after the announcement of the prizes awarded, the prize winners shall cooperate with the MOE to conduct exhibitions of prize-winning entries and promotion activities and the prize winners shall retain the original files and information about their respective entries to provide to the MOE for reference.

(c) Agree to authorize the MOE to free and non-exclusive use of photographs of and written information about the prize-winning work submitted to the competition, including audio/visual productions (videos), and digital files, in public presentations, public broadcasts, and/or make publicly available on the internet, for the purposes of education, research, and public services. The MOE may reproduce the work for education and research purposes.

(d) All monetary prizes shall be taxed in accordance with regulations.

11.If any of the following circumstances pertains to an entrant or their entry, and the matter has been investigated and verified, that person will be disqualified from any further or future participation in the competition; if the matter is discovered after the prizes have been awarded, the person’s eligibility to receive a prize will be revoked and the person will be required to return any certificate and any prize money that they have already received:

(a) The person has not acted in accordance with the provisions of Point 3 to Point 5.

(b) The subsequent commercialization and marketing activities associated with a work that was awarded a prize harm the image or contravene the spirit of this competition.

(c) A prize-winner has been involved in making a request of, lobbying, bribing, threatening or interfering with any selection committee or the selection process in any other way, and the selection committee has discussed the matter and considers the circumstances to be serious.

12.The registration of entries, the format and theme of works entered, the selection criteria, schedule, information about activities, payment of monetary prizes, public recognition, and any other matters related to the TISDC are handled in accordance with the directions governing applications to participate and the selection procedure, and associated directions published each year by the MOE.

13.Any dispute related to these Directions will be discussed by the selection committee and then reported to the MOE to make a decision.

14.The funds required to undertake the work to conduct the TISDC will be provided for with an allocation in the annual budget of the MOE.