jumpthegap®aims to be one of the major agents proposing solutions to the challenges included in the 2030 agenda, thanks to the participation of professionals from the architecture and design sectors in the competition.

For this reason, the 2021 edition will not end with the awards ceremony, but will continue during 2022 with panel discussions and analyses, as its ideas and solutions provide inspiration for some of the challenges facing our planet and our society.

The bathroom, in the broadest sense, becomes the centralizing space for different human uses and needs, both physical and emotional, which define us and position us in the world.

In this sense, we ask participants to design a product or service that:

• responds to any of the topics listed in the categories below, providing enough added value when compared with existing solutions
• relies on currently available materials and technologies
• is aligned with one or more Sustainable Development Goals included in the 2030 agenda

The contest is open to professionals and students from the disciplines of architecture, design and any related field, of legal age from every country in the world, and has two participation options:

• Individual projects: formed by a single person.

• Group projects: formed by two people. 

Each person or group may participate in one project only.

Judges, their families, their studios or design teams may not compete. The same applies to employees of companies that form part of the Roca Group.

Winners of any of Roca’s previous design contest editions are allowed to participate.  

Registration for the contest is free of charge and open from 3^rd  May 2021 online at www.jumpthegap.net, accessible through the registration page.

All participants must submit their application to take part in the contest on 6th September 2021.

By registering for the contest, participants confirm that they accept these rules.

Any incomplete or incorrect information or any registration application that does not fulfill the required conditions will be considered as null and void.

The submission date was initially 3rd May and 3rd June, but due to the Covid obstacles Roca decided to extend the submission date to 3rd May and 6th September. Thus, the final submission date is 6th September. Note that all participants who were registered to the contest before the submission date extension have been notified of such extension by email and those who had already submitted the project have been can modify and/or update their project until the extended submission date.

The projects must be submitted to the contest website between 3rd May and 6th September.

There are 4 prizes of 2.000€ for the winner of each category.

There are 8 prizes of 500€ for the 1^st and 2^nd runner up of each category.

There is 1 prize of 5.000€ for the best of the best project, selected from the winners of each of the 4 categories

All taxes on the prize are the sole responsibility of the winner, regardless of his/her jurisdiction. The winner may be responsible for taxes that are applicable according to Personal Income Tax, Non-resident Income Tax and according to the provisions of international treaties.

Consequently, the winner, by accepting these legal bases, is aware of the tax consequences of any kind that might result from claiming the prize and Roca takes no responsibility for such cause.

Additionally, winners and finalists will receive a jumpthegap® official digital diploma and a digital label to be used on communication channels.

If at any time before the payment of the prizes, the organization of the contest learns that any of the awarded projects does not comply with any of the conditions established in these legal bases, (i.e. because it is not an original project or for other reasons) the concerned project will be disqualified and the following runner-up will move up one position in the winner's rankings. If any of the prizes cannot be awarded because there are not enough substitute winners, such prize will be declared void.

The jury is made up of the following professionals:

• President:  Shigeru Ban, Architect founder of Shigeru Ban Architects
• Somi Kim, Senior Director, Healthcare Solutions at Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Design
•  Paul Priestman, Designer, Chairman of PriestmanGoode
• Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin_Forma Fantasma design studio  
• Deborah Seward, Director of United Nations Regional Information Centre in Belgium
• Mariana Amatullo,President of Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media
• Isabel Roig, Executive Director of Barcelona Design Centre & President of World Design Weeks
• Marc Viardot, Corporate Marketing and Design Director Roca Group

From 7^th September to 15^th September 2021, a pre-selection committee made up of representatives of the Roca Design Centre and the Roca Global Innovation Hub will select 24 projects (6 projects per category) from the entries received, which will be presented to the juries.

Authors of the 24 preselected projects will be requested to send during the next 48h of the preselection announcement:

• A copy of their ID card
• A copy of their studies degree or enrolment

The jury will receive a “virtual dossier” with the 24 preselected projects to judge.

The juries’ first selections will be performed on-line from 20^th September to 30^th September.

They will choose the winner and the 1^st and 2^nd runners up for each category.

The juries’ second selection, to choose the best of the best, will be performed on-line from 1^st October to 7^th October 2021.

All submissions will be assessed anonymously. When making their assessments, the judges will take into account the following criteria and requirements:

1- INNOVATION AND ORIGINALITY - 30%

Proposals must show an alternative to other existing elements and set new standards for the world to follow.

Projects presented must be original and never have been published before. Designs must not have received any award, nor have been presented to any other competition at the time they are submitted to the jumpthegap® contest.

2- FEASABILITY - 30%

All proposals must be feasible to realize with materials and technologies currently available in the public domain.

3. ALIGNMENT WITH SDG 20%

The proposals must be aligned with the UN 2030 agenda and must clearly explain which SDG(s) are affected or benefitted by the design. 

4- VALUES and ATTITUDES- 10%

Proposals must consider the values and attitudes defined as fundamental in the competition.

5- PRESENTATION- 10%

The overall idea must be clearly explained and must include good-quality images. High quality of the deliverables is essential.

Participants certify that the design is their own, original work and that it has never been published before. Designs must not have received any award, nor have been presented to any other competition at the time they are submitted to the jumpthegap® contest. Participants must enjoy the unrestricted exercise of the intellectual and property rights over their respective proposals.

All intellectual property rights, as well as possible industrial property rights over the projects submitted, belong exclusively to their authors.However, by submitting their project to the contest, the Participants grant the company Roca Sanitario, S.A. (hereinafter Roca) a priority right to the exploitation of the projects for 6 months provided that an agreement is reached with the author of such project in this sense.

Participants are responsible for the protection of their submissions by either copyright, design or patent applications, prior to submitting them to the competition.

All participants (including the winner/s and finalists) assign to Roca and Barcelona Centre de Disseny the rights of reproduction and publication of the paper projects submitted to the contest, for all countries in the world and for the maximum period permitted by law in each one of such countries for the sole and only purpose of promoting the projects in publications of general interest and/or specialized magazines, as well as on the websites, editions and publications of Roca and/or Barcelona Design Centre and also on the contest website. Roca will be entitled to assign to third parties, without the previous written consent of the authors, the right of reproduction and publication of the projects submitted by the authors to the contest for the territorial and temporal scope they deem necessary, for the sole and only purpose of promoting the authors paper projects worldwide.

Exceptionally, participants other than the winner/s and finalists who do not wish to publish their work, must request this in written form to Roca, before 23rd July 2020.