Organiser
This Contest is organised by Vidrala, with registered office at Barrio Munegazo, 22, 01400 Llodio, Alava (Spain). The MasterGlass Vidrala Design Contest 2025 will be governed by these terms and conditions.
Collaborators
Vidrala’s collaborators include the Faculty of Engineering at Deusto University, with registered offices at Avenida Universidades, 24, 48007 Bilbao and the Basque Designers’ Association, with registered offices at Plaza Ensanche, 11, 48009 Bilbao.
Purpose
The Master Glass Design Contest is a glass packaging design competition aimed at finding new ideas from universities, technical schools and Art and Design Colleges. It seeks innovation, originality and viability, within a sustainable and environmentally efficient process.
Deadline
Entries may be submitted up until 06 June 2025.
Participants
Any student who can prove that he/she is studying at an official school or university in Spain, Portugal, Ireland or the United Kingdom may apply for this contest. Participants can take part as individuals or in pairs.
Presentation of projects
To take part in the Master Glass Vidrala Design Contest, you will need to enter the data requested in the form found on the contest website masterglass.vidrala.com in the ‘’Enter the contest!” section. and accept the contest rules and conditions. This form will ask for the author’s personal details and the project submitted: name, surname, date of birth, email address, telephone number, educational centre attended. From then on, participants will be able to upload their projects using this same form, provided they do so before the deadline for receipt of applications at 24:00 on Friday 06 June 2025. Projects received after this date will not be considered.
Information about the project
Master Glass Vidrala Design Contest, is launched as a design contest aimed at the design of glass packaging. There is no limit to the number of projects that can be entered, within three categories:
- Bottle: Wine, Cava, Champagne, Sparkling Wine, Cider, Water, Spirits…
- Small bottle: Beer, Soft drinks, Juice, Water, Dairy products…
- Jar: Preserves, Sauces…
The organisation does not specify any further characteristics as to the uses of the product to be designed, leaving creativity entirely open.
Each item submitted must be accompanied by a label design and the container must be submitted filled with the product it contains (it must not be empty). In addition, original ideas for alternative and functional closures, lids and caps will be positively received.
Proposals that may be feasible for production, according to the characteristics shown in the following link, will be viewed favourably, although the organisation does not consider this to be a determining factor in the final decision.
Awards will be given for innovation in all aspects, both visual and functional, as well as for feasibility and sustainability. The design must be original, innovative and distinctive, responding to the needs of customers and end users.
The project shall consist of a graphic visualisation and a descriptive report explaining the details of the proposal submitted. Furthermore, each project must be accompanied by a descriptive title that evokes and conveys its essence.
The projects shall be submitted in PDF format, in DIN A3 landscape size, with a 300 ppi resolution. Up to five pages may be submitted to ensure a proper understanding. All pages shall be identified solely and exclusively with the project title.
Judges
A panel of experts appointed by Vidrala and the University of Deusto will make a technical assessment of the submitted projects and will select 10 finalists. The creators of the finalist projects must briefly explain their proposal to the jury by videoconference on Friday 20 June 2025, with the possibility of changing this date if the organisation deems it appropriate.
Panel’s decision
The organisers will personally communicate the judges’ decision to the winner as well as publishing it on the Contest website between the end of June and the first two weeks of July. The awards ceremony will be held in the last quarter of 2025.
Prize
There will be a single first prize across all categories, consisting of a trip to the Salón del Mueble de Milán if the winner has entered as an individual, or two trips to the Salón del Mueble de Milán if the winners have entered as a pair. The prize is non-transferable and will be redeemed before the end of 2026 and cannot be carried over to subsequent editions, nor can it be substituted by any other prize or a cash equivalent.
Vidrala will also award a diploma to the outstanding projects accrediting their participation in the contest.
Data Protection
Both the organiser and the collaborators guarantee compliance with the obligations laid down in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR) for the processing of participants‘ personal data and the organiser’s and collaborators’ professional contact data.
Information on data protection: The following is the mandatory information regarding the data processing that will be carried out during management of the contest:
Information relating to the processing of personal data
Data Controller for the processing of your personal data
- The organiser is the data controller for the processing of personal data.
- The collaborators will be considered to be jointly responsible for the processing to the extent of their direct participation and in relation to the processing of personal data that they carry out in the management of the contest.
Purposes for which they will be processed
- Promotion and management of the contest.
- Sending promotional information by electronic means for the organisation and participation in future editions.
- Publication of events, prize-giving and news related to the contest in the media and social networks.
Legitimation for the processing
The consent of the data subjects legitimises the processing of their personal data.
Transfers of data
The details of the participants and the contact details of the collaborators may be communicated to the companies of the Vidrala Group when necessary for managing the contest.
Your rights
- Participants have the right to access, rectify, cancel, object to the processing of their data, to portability and to request the limitation of the processing. Please apply to the above address.
- Any consent you have given may be revoked at any time, free of charge.
Complaints
The Spanish Data Protection Agency is the supervisory authority at your disposal to deal with requests for information, as well as for the lodging of complaints: www.agpd.es.
Data retention
Participants’ personal data will be kept for 3 years from their last participation, in order to invite them to take part in future editions of the contest unless they exercise their right of deletion.
Additional information
Further and more detailed information about our privacy policy can be found on our website: www.masterglass.vidrala.com
Security measures
Both the organiser and the collaborators guarantee the application of the security measures, both technical and organisational, that are required to guarantee the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the personal data being processed.
These measures shall be adapted to the state of technology and sufficient to avoid the risks to which the information is exposed, whether they arise from human action or from the physical or natural environment. Risk assessment and methodologies for the implementation, monitoring and control of the measures applied shall be in line with international standards.
Assignment of image rights
In compliance with Organic Law 1/1982, of 5 May, concerning the civil protection of the right to honour, to personal and family privacy and to one’s own image, participation in the contest implies the express and unreserved acceptance that, in the event that the participant is the winner or a prize-winner, he/she authorises media coverage of the prize-giving event, as well as the publication of his/her image in the media and social networks.
Accordingly, participants expressly authorise, without any additional financial compensation, the organiser to publish images of the competition, participants, prize-giving ceremonies or related events, both in its internal magazine and on the website and in social media.
The authorisation for the publication of the image is not subject to any additional financial consideration and is granted without any limitation in time or territory, without prejudice to the participants’ right of objection, which may always be exercised free of charge in the manner indicated above.
Transfer of rights
The participant (and the members of his/her team, if applicable) guarantees Vidrala the originality of his/her project and that he/she is the sole author of the project and that it does not infringe any law or regulation in force or the rights of third parties.
Participants are responsible for protecting their design with a copyright or patent application before submitting it to the contest. The intellectual property rights, as well as possible industrial property rights over the submitted project belong exclusively to its author.
All participants (including the winner and the distinguished entries) grant Vidrala the rights to copy, reproduce and publish the projects submitted to the competition, for all countries in the world and for the maximum period permitted by law in each of them, for the purpose of promoting general interest publications, specialised magazines, as well as on Vidrala’s websites, editions and publications, including the competition website.
Exceptionally, participants who are not the winner or those selected who do not wish their work to be published must request this in writing to Vidrala.
The winner will offer Vidrala an exclusive option to purchase the exploitation rights of its project for one year from the award ceremony, after which the author of the winning project may freely dispose of the industrial property rights relating to it. In all cases, the name of the author shall always be mentioned in connection with the design.
In the event that Vidrala decides to develop the project for industrial and commercial purposes, it shall offer the author a pre-emptive right to carry out the design, which may be developed by Vidrala or by a third party in the event that the author does not exercise this right.
Limitation of liability
The organiser shall not be liable either directly, indirectly or subsidiarily for the content of the project, nor for damages of any nature whatsoever, including but not limited to those caused to third parties by violations of copyright and/or industrial law and/or any other third party rights.
The organiser reserves the right to revoke the prize and/or to disqualify, if applicable, those participants who do not comply with the conditions of participation described in these Rules.