To whom it may concern

We Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV) has 
announced the launch of the fifth "EV Design Contest for International 
Students." 
>From 2013 to 2019, APEV organized biannual "EV Design Contest for 
International Students" in conjunction with the Tokyo Motor Show. In 
2021 it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the fifth 
contest will be held with a major revamp in 2022. 

We held a press conference on January 20th to explain the plan and 
started recruiting participants on February 15th.
A pre-workshop will be held on March 27th.
Those who apply for this contest are encouraged to participate, and we 
sincerely look forward to the participation of interested high school 
students and above. 

【Detail of the pre-workshop】
1. Date time: March 27, 2022 (Sun) 13: 00-17: 40 (GMT + 9: 00)

2. Location: IBM Japan Co., Ltd. Headquarters 19-21 Nihonbashi 
Hakozakicho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 
The reception will start at 12:30, and participants will be informed 
about the location later.

3. Eligibility: Those who are interested in ""Social EV" Design Contest 
for International Students 2022" and,
A) Students aged 18 and over (as of April 1, 2022) who are considering 
participating this Design Contest
B) High school students cannot apply this contest, but can participate 
as observers.

4. Participation fee: Free. Participants are responsible for 
transportation and other costs

5. Participation method: There are the following two methods, and real 
and online are connected by WebEx and operated as one workshop.
A) Real participation: Participation at the head office of IBM Japan Co.,
 Ltd. (Please bring your notebook PC or tablet * Note)
B) Online participation: WebEx from your home etc.
* Note: We are thinking of sharing and exchanging opinions and questions 
of real + online participating students on WebEX during the question and 
answer session in the second half. In order to exchange opinions in the 
same environment as online participants, we would like real participants 
to bring their laptops or tablets.

6. Contents
■ First half: 13:00 to 15:20
A) Orientation: Explain the contents of the contest and how to proceed 
with the pre-WS
B) Lecture: By Dr. Hiroshi Fujiwara : Contents of Press Conference on 
20th January
・ Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXPtgj6xMZM&list=PL6Zpok3BHnQHz14jfnBtVuZbAgbTjjuWH&index=3

・ Please check the material (Sorry only Japanese)  
https://onl.la/A9kuhVG
C) Short break
D) Announcement from sponsors (Car Design Academy, IBM Japan, Hino 
Motors, MONET Technologies) "Future prediction & issue announcement of 
each company + what we want students to think about the future"

■Break:15:20 to 15: 40

■ Second half: 15: 40 to 17: 40
E) Questions and answers and work about the contents of the First half: 
Participating students and organizers, sponsors, and supporters exchange 
opinions
Create multiple breakout rooms and let students choose
F) Short break
G) Summary: Everyone looks back on the whole
* Contents are subject to change without notice.

7. COVID-19 measures
A) Depending on the situation of COVID-19, the real event will be 
canceled and only online. The decision will be notified by email by 
Monday, March 14th.
B) Real participants will be asked to measure their body temperature at 
the reception, and will be refused admission if the temperature is above 
37.5 °C.
C) Real participants are recommended to be vaccinated with COVID-19 
vaccine at least twice.
D) Real participants should always wear a non-woven mask
E) Please do your own health observation from 2 weeks before the event, 
and if you feel unwell during that time, please do not participate.
F) Real participants are required to fill out the required items on the 
designated visitor questionnaire at the time of reception.
G) Real participants should follow the instructions of other organizers

8. How to apply: Please send the following information to contest@apev.
jp by 18:00 (GMT + 9: 00) on March 17th (Thursday), because there is a 
capacity for real participation. If it is full before, you will be able 
to participate online.
A) Email title: "APEV Design Contest Pre-Workshop Participation 
Application"
B) Participation type: Real or Online (choose either)
C) Full name:
D) Affiliation school name:
E) Department name:
F) Email address:
G) Address: Country, prefecture, city, town and village
H) Mobile phone number

9. Reference information
A) Contest Website
Japanese: https://www.apev.jp/contest/
English: https://www.apev.jp/contest/en/
B) 2019 Workshop I
Japanese report: https://www.apev.jp/news/20190702-1.pdf
English report: https://www.apev.jp/news/20190708-1.pdf
Japanese video: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHZTOC6r6P8qfcji-7b-00mtqJ5OImFUd


★ The features and schedule of this contest ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The theme of this contest is "designing society and EV: suggestion for 
2040." We have set a clear deadline in accordance with the current 
topics of "Achieve 100% electric vehicle sales by 2035" and "going 
carbon-neutral by 2050." Our time is drastically shifting to electric 
vehicles. Therefore, we have concluded that this contest should be about 
considering electric vehicles not only as moving objects but as 
essential mobility for people's lives. Participants should also think 
about the meaning of "making a good living."
Consequently, we would like to reach a better solution for the theme of 
this contest with participants and supporting companies, by designing 
society itself, that is, thinking about ideal society and eventually 
about how EV should be as mobility. 
Moreover, we would like to focus on fostering the human resources more 
than ever, with an emphasis on discovering the "interdisciplinary talent 
(mobility architects)" of the next generation. From now on, electric 
vehicles will not be just cars converted from engines to motors. As 
represented by the keywords such as "Mobility as a Service (MaaS)" and "
Connected, Autonomous, Shared & Services, Electric (CASE)", people's 
value is shifting from entity-oriented consumption to situation-oriented 
consumption. It is inevitable that the current automobile industry will 
be required to undergo further changes. Is the education offered so far 
good enough for human resources to cope with such a new era? We believe 
that it is important for new talent to emerge for the new time that we 
are heading for. "Interdisciplinary talent (mobility architects)" can be 
the human resources that symbolizes such an era.

Note: The definitions of the terms "social EV" and "mobility architects" 
are for use only in this contest.

Therefore, we now change the evaluation points for the contest as 
follows:
[previous points] "Styling (focused on design perfection) + Concept (
design description, story)"
[new points] "Designing society in 2040 (focused on finding issues) + 
Concept (solution for the issues) + Design (visual materials to explain 
the concept)"
We expect participating students to create a new "design of society" in 
consideration with urgent issues such as environmental problems, natural 
disasters, mobility safety, and energy, and with the construction of a 
new social system based on service.
The specialty of the participants is not particularly limited. We would 
like to promote integrating the area of humanities/arts and science. 
Anyone is eligible to participate if s/he would like to do research on 
the society of 2040 and the future of mobility that will play an active 
role in that society. We look forward to the participation of students 
from various fields, regardless of their major, more than ever.


■Overall　Schedule
August-December 2021: The first sponsors sought/Supporters sought
20th January 2022: Online Press Conference
January-August 2022: The second sponsors sought
14th February 2022: Start of accepting applications 
２7th March 2022: Pre-workshop
10th May 2022: Deadline for entries
10th June 2022: Deadline for the work for the first screening
End of June 2022: Announcement of the first screening results
Beginning of July 2022: Workshop 1
Beginning of August 2022: Deadline for the work for the second screening
End of August 2022: Announcement of the second screening results
Mid of September 2022: Workshop 2
End of October 2022: The final screening and award ceremony, and APEV 
symposium*
*The collaboration with CEATEC2022 is under consideration because Tokyo 
Motor Show will not be held in 2022.
Mid of March 2023　Final Report
（Schedule will be changed without notice）

[Administration Office]
Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles
III FUKUTAKE HALL　THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, JAPAN
TEL : +81-50-3375-4937  E-MAIL : contest@apev.jp
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