Third edition of the UNIRSM technology and environment contest aimed at high school students

The underlying question: "How to encourage the protection of environmental heritage and win the challenge of sustainability?"

New opportunities to express sensitivity, creativity and ingenuity, in the name of the environment, with the announcement of the third edition of the ideas competition "Design your territory for the future", organized by the University of the Republic of San Marino and aimed at high school students in Titano and Italy.

The degree courses in Civil Engineering of the University of San Marino, which take care of the initiative in collaboration with the three-year course in Construction and Territory Management, thus give continuity to a contest from which in recent years projects have emerged which have involved themes such as renewable energy, the circular economy and digitalisation, hypothesizing an answer to the underlying question: "What are the project proposals in an urban or extra-urban area that can be implemented, on a small scale in a single home or on an extended scale over a territory, to encourage the protection of environmental heritage and overcome the challenge of sustainability?"

From the works presented in previous editions, systems have emerged for irrigating gardens and vegetable gardens with rainwater (which must also be purified for use in washing machines and toilets), systems for disposing of electric car batteries and sunflower-shaped photovoltaic panels giant made with recycled materials and capable of rotating to better intercept the sun's rays, functioning as street lamps at night.

The dynamics that are affecting the planet, we read in the competition notice already published, are "impacting structures and infrastructures, compromising territorial balances and food and water supply systems, also causing effects that are harmful to people's health". A context, the one outlined, in which "all sectors of Civil Engineering, aimed at the development and implementation of new technologies, design and management methods, play a key role".

The best project will be decided by a jury made up of nine figures including academics and representatives of the San Marino High School, the Territorial and Building Planning Office, the Order of Engineers and Architects, the State Autonomous Company for Public Works, of the Secretariat of State for Education and Culture, of the Secretariat of State for the Territory.

The papers must be submitted by October 31st. More information in the "calls and competitions" section.