To whom it may concern,
Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV) is now holding
2017 EV Mobility Design Contest for International Students.
We have the honor to inform you that Minister Awards from METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) and MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) will be awarded to outstanding teams.
This contest aims to provide opportunities to learn and think about automated driving, traffic policies for depopulated areas, and issues that have been discussed in national research conferences. We hope that Minister Awards could encourage the participants, and expect developing sophisticated suggestions. There are also new jury members from METI and MLIT.
Same as previous time, MOE (Ministry of the Environment), METI , MLIT and The University of Tokyo are supporting this contest. Furthermore, because of the relationship with TOCOG (The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games), we will receive support from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government this time.
We do not evaluate works only by styling.
We look forward to far-sighted ideas considering the trend of whole society, and proposals including worldviews which are one step ahead of other design contests.
★The following are the awards of this contest.
◎ Grand Pix（1 team）, with 200 thousand yen as a supplementary prize
◎ METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) Minister Award（1 team）, with 100 thousand yen as a supplementary prize
◎ MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) Minister Award（1 team）, with 100 thousand yen as a supplementary prize
◎Company Award（several teams）, official names and supplementary prizes will be decided by supporting companies.
★Screening Committee
◎Head： Shiro Nakamura（Ex-Senior Vice President, CCO, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.）
◎Members：
・Tadao Ando (Architect & Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo)
・Akihiro Nagaya (Executive Officer, Chief General Manager, Design Center, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.)
・Ken Okuyama (Industrial Designer & CEO, Ken Okuyama Design)
・Patrick le Quément (Industrial designer & Ex-Senior Vice President of Corporate design, Renault)
・Zhang, Fan (Vice President, Head of Design Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.)
・Noriyuki Mita (Deputy Director-General, Manufacturing Industries Bureau Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
・Masayuki Shima (Senior Deputy Director-General, Road Transport Bureau Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)
・Nobuhiro Tajima (Chief Commissioner, Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles)
★In addition, we have attached a revised list of "The participating
schools for EV Mobility Design Contest for International Students 2017"
witch was announced before.
◎Total:34 Schools / 96 Teams.
◎ From Japan: 20 Schools / 45 Teams.
◎From overseas: 15 countries,14 Schools / 51 Teams.
Taiwan:5 Schools / 18 Teams, Italy: 2 Schools / 13 Teams, , India:1 School / 5 Teams,
China:4 Schools / 4 Teams
Below countries are 1 School / 1 Team :
Australia, Canada, Philippines, Qatar, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, UAE, Uganda, UK, USA
Please refer the List of participating schools in full detail.
★Contact
Gen Yasujima EV Design Contest Secretary-General
Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV)
Address: FUKUTAKE HALL THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 JAPAN
Tel: +81-50-3736-8325 FAX: +81-50-3153-2686
