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March 2025

1/20–4/14/2025
IDZ Event

German Ecodesign Award | Call for entries 2025
From 20 January to 14 April, companies, designers and students throughout Europe can apply for the German Ecodesign Award 2025.

Details

We are looking for imaginative ideas and projects that are outstandingly designed and forward-looking. In addition to market-ready products and services, this also includes conceptual and student work. Design innovations are just as much in demand as technical and social innovations. There are no limits to creativity!

2/20–3/30/2025
IDZ Event

German Ecodesign Award: Exhibition at Esche Museum
Chemnitz is the European Capital of Culture 2025, together with numerous cities and municipalities in the surrounding area. Among them is Limbach-Oberfrohna, the location of the Esche Museum and the first stop of the touring exhibition ‘Thinking ahead’ 2025.

Details

The exhibition can be seen at the Esche Museum from 20 February to 30 March. At the opening on 20 February at 6 pm, there will be keynote speeches by the exhibiting projects, providing an in-depth insight into the exhibition.

Place
Esche Museum
Sachsenstraße 3
09212 Limbach-Oberfrohna


Date
20 February to 30 March

Vernissage
20 February at 6 pm

Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday: 1 to 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 11 am to 5 pm

Tuesday, 3/11/2025
9.00 am–6.00 pm

Circular Design Summit
The German Design Council's Circular Design Summit brings together leading minds from business, industry and design who share a common vision: economic success in harmony with ecological sustainability.

Details

Learn how Circular Design - design for the circular economy - is driving the transformation of the economy and how you can become part of this development.

When: Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
Where: Hospitalhof, Stuttgart
Who: Experts from Google, BMW Group, IKEA, Hansgrohe, TÜV Rheinland Group, BDI-Initiative Circular Economy, Indeed Innovation and many more

Further information can be found here.
Registration/tickets here.

Discount for IDZ members: Ticket category “Member of cooperating associations”
New Year's special from 20 to 31 January: € 394.00
Regular: 689,00 €

April 2025

1/20–4/14/2025
IDZ Event

German Ecodesign Award | Call for entries 2025
From 20 January to 14 April, companies, designers and students throughout Europe can apply for the German Ecodesign Award 2025.

Details

We are looking for imaginative ideas and projects that are outstandingly designed and forward-looking. In addition to market-ready products and services, this also includes conceptual and student work. Design innovations are just as much in demand as technical and social innovations. There are no limits to creativity!

May 2025

5/8–10/2025

DIVE'25
Design meets politics, business and society: Deutscher Designtag invites you to the DIVE'25 conference in Munich.

Details

The conference brings together experts from design, politics, business and science to discuss the diverse potential of design across disciplinary boundaries together with the audience. Use this opportunity for exchange and dialog and to develop new projects. The IDZ is a member organization of the German Design Day and a cooperation partner of the Federal Design Congress.

When: 8 May, 1:00 p.m. to 10 May, 4:00 p.m.
Where: Munich

Further information, registration and tickets here

Discount for IDZ members: Ticket category “Reduced member organizations”
until 3 February: 150,00 €
until 6 May: gradual increase up to 250,00 €

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