Wege Prize has announced a larger and more diverse pool of judges than ever before, promising to help students advance their game-changing concepts for a sustainable future. Now in its 12th year, the competition offers five more preliminary judges, bringing the total to 15.

Big ideas for making the world better can earn big money for college and university students.

The top three teams of university students from around the world have been selected as winners in Wege Prize 2024, the globally recognized, circular-economy ideas competition.

Innovative solutions aimed at food insecurity, waste, pollution and resource conservation are topping the five projects from student teams worldwide that have been selected for the Wege Prize 2024 finalist awards presentations in May.

As Earth Day 2024 spotlights ways to eliminate plastics, the Wege Prize is shining a spotlight on its innovative student teams that have created real-world solutions recently.

A shortlist of 15 sustainability innovations announced for Wege Prize ’23 offer real-world solutions to pressing challenges such as plastics pollution, hunger and agricultural waste, as they also open bright horizons for the future circular economy.

Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University selects 50 student teams from 39 countries for international design competition, their biggest field ever. The multidisciplinary student teams compete to present innovative, circular solutions to address global problems in ways that transform the economy.

Educating the next generation of designers is a key objective of the NCMA Foundation. Penn State has had an architecture student design competition supported by the Pennsylvania Concrete Masonry Association and the NCMA Foundation for more than 20 years. The competition includes choosing a building program that is conducive to the use of concrete masonry as both a structural system as well as an aesthetic device.