A October 1, 2025 to October 22, 2025, 5:00 PM deadline (please note that the system tends to become congested within the last three hours before the deadline, so we strongly recommend completing your registration in advance).

A Applicants must be currently enrolled students (including master's and doctoral students) who satisfy at least one of the following requirements: Be enrolled in a design-related department, bachelor's degree program in design, or junior college design program in Taiwan (including, but not limited to, product design, graphic design, visual communication, multimedia design, architecture, spatial design, interior design, fashion design, crafts, cultural and creative design, digital design, materials design, etc.); or Be enrolled in a department that is eligible to participate in the 2027 Young Designers' Exhibition (YODEX). Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged. Participants may form teams across universities, departments, and disciplines based on the needs of their proposals. Students from non-design disciplines—including Information Management, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and related fields—are welcome to join interdisciplinary teams.

A If challenge-proposing enterprises have the intention of turning their assisted project outcome into a merchandise or launch it to the market, they can talk to the creators for ensuing business collaboration. Within one year after the YODEX exhibition ends, challenge-proposing enterprises are prioritized over other enterprises for business negotiation regarding the intellectual copyright of the design project outcome. Should the shortlisted teams wish to sell their intellectual property right to a third party, they need to first inform the challenge-proposing enterprise and obtain its consent.

A Adhering to the spirit of cross-sector collaboration, we encourage students to form their teams regardless of their departments and universities but based on expertise required by the challenges proposed by enterprises. They can sign up as individuals or as a team (maximum 6 people in one team ).welcome student teammates of different expertise for the purpose of project integrity.

A For interdisciplinary teams, the requirement stated in Q&A Item 2 regarding enrollment in a design-related department does not apply. Team members from non-design disciplines must be currently enrolled in a formal degree program outside of design. This includes students pursuing a double major, but does not include students with a minor. It is strongly recommended that each interdisciplinary team include at least one member from a design-related department. For detailed eligibility requirements, please refer to the Student Call for Entries Guidelines.

A For details, please go to “Industry-Academia Design Cooperation” on the YODEX website (https://www.yodex.com.tw/enterprise_topic).

A No, the student teams that sign up for the industry-academia cooperation have to seek their own consultants from their university/college faculty, and complete the design project with concerted efforts of the consultants and the enterprises.

A Students can submit design proposals in response to topics of their own choice, as well as submit the same design proposal or multiple design proposals to more than two topics. They can also submit multiple design proposals to the same topic. For as many students as possible to take part, if the finalist teams are accepted for more than one topic, each student can only collaborate on one topic at most

A What is most valuable about taking part in industry-academia cooperation projects is that students get to apply their training to the industry. Besides competition prizes, TDRI also provides subsidies for models and transportation. Should the design proposal have any follow-up development, collaborating enterprises will also offer relevant assistance. The Industry-Academia Cooperation pavilion at the YODEX exhibition gives great exposure to shortlisted design proposals.

A For the Round-1 submission, the proposal would be sufficient, as long as the presentation panel covers the preliminary design, such as design drawing and design concepts. Once chosen for the Round-2 selection, student competitors will get to implement their design concepts to a certain extent, given the coaching from collaborating enterprises.

A As the industry-academia cooperation outcome is the fruit of concerted efforts of the student team and the collaborating enterprise, obtaining consent from collaborating enterprises is required before taking part in competitions organized by other enterprises. To enter shortlisted design projects into competitions organized by other enterprises in Taiwan or overseas requires consent from the collaborating enterprises as to whether to list them as the co-creator of the design to avoid any misunderstandings.