Objective: Design innovative product concepts related to bathroom and kitchen spaces.

Theme: The specific design brief will be announced on Saturday, October 18th, 2025.

Context: The competition aims to engage the community of young designers in the search for original, simple, and innovative solutions that improve user experience with bathroom and/or kitchen products, for both public and private spaces.

Additionally, the Roca One Day Design Challenge serves as a platform to promote, encourage, and foster creativity through an intense and fast-paced exercise aimed at a sector traditionally less open to innovation, such as bathrooms and kitchens.

Format: Roca One Day Design Challenge Spain 2025 will be held in a hybrid format (online and in-person). Participants can work remotely or attend the workspace set up at the Roca Barcelona Gallery. When registering for the competition, participants must necessarily register at the Gallery, even if they later decide to participate remotely. The maximum number of participants at the Roca Barcelona Gallery will be 200 people.

The organization reserves the right to increase or reduce the maximum number of participants at the Roca Barcelona Gallery, as well as to cancel the event at any time, should the situation require it.

Registration: Participants may register through the website www.onedaydesignchallenge.net until 23:59 (UTC+2) on October 16th, 2025. Once 200 people have registered, the registration period will close regardless of the date.

To complete the registration, participants must provide the following information and documentation:

 

• Full name
• University or company
• Home address (street, city, and postal code)
• Phone number and email address
• Date of birth.

To finalize the registration, participants registering through Roca’s official website (www.onedaydesignchallenge.net) must upload all required information/documents before 23:59 (UTC+2) on October 16th, 2025. Any registration missing the above information will be void.

Only one registration per person will be accepted. Once confirmed, registration numbers cannot be changed. Duplicate registrations by the same person will also result in disqualification.

The competition is open to design students or young professionals residing in Spain, aged between 18 and 29, whose date of birth falls between October 19th, 1995, and October 5th, 2007.

Participation may be individual or in groups of up to 2 members, provided all members meet the above requirements.

The following persons are excluded from participating:

• Winners of the first, second, third, or We Are Water Foundation Prize in previous editions of the competition in any country.
• All employees of Roca Group companies and their relatives up to the fourth degree of consanguinity.
• Winners of other Roca Group competitions such as jumpthegap®.

At 9:30 a.m. on October 18th, the specific design brief will be announced live at the Roca Barcelona Gallery and a printed copy will be distributed to all attendees. It will also be published online at www.onedaydesignchallenge.net for participants choosing to compete remotely.

The duration of the exercise will be from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and participants may work either on-site at the competition venue or remotely from any location they consider appropriate. All participants will be able to submit their projects between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. through the official website

Participants will find the project submission button in the "Spain 2025" section of the website. Clicking the submission button will open a new screen requesting the username and password created during registration. Only after entering these credentials will participants be able to upload their project files-

At 6:00 p.m., the jury will deliberate to select the winning projects of the Roca One Day Design Challenge Spain 13th Edition. The jury will select three winners, as well as first, second, and third substitute prizes, in case the original winners do not meet the conditions set forth in these legal terms.

At 9:00 p.m., the winners will be publicly announced (first, second, and third prize) and the awards ceremony will be held at the Roca Barcelona Gallery (Carrer de Joan Güell, 211, 213, 08028 Barcelona).

The jury will evaluate the creativity and originality of the proposals, as well as their feasibility, clarity, readability, and graphic design of the presentations.

Due to the current climate situation and Roca One Day Design Challenge’s commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, all submitted designs must address sustainability and water savings to be eligible for an award.

• 1st prize winners will receive €3,000.
• 2nd prize winners will receive €2,000.
• 3rd prize winners will receive €1,000.
  

The jury reserves the right to declare any or all prizes void if, in their opinion, none of the projects demonstrate sufficient originality or sustainability, or meet the required quality standards.

The jury may also declare the prizes void if it considers that none of the projects incorporate the value of sustainability and/or meet the required quality standards.

At the time of being selected, the winners must present their ID card or passport to prove that they meet the criteria required in these terms and conditions (age and residency) before receiving the prize. If the competition organizers verify that the age and/or residency requirements are not met, the project of the person failing to meet these requirements will be automatically disqualified, and the prize will automatically be awarded to the next finalist.

The ID cards and passports received by the competition organizers will be used solely for the purpose described in the previous paragraph, under strict technical and legal confidentiality measures during the period required by law.

All prizes are subject to the current tax regulations. Roca Sanitario, S.A. will make the corresponding withholdings on account of the personal income tax (I.R.P.F.) of the winners. The taxes corresponding to the prizes — €3,000 for the first prize winners, €2,000 for the second prize winners, and €1,000 for the third prize winner — will be deducted from the respective prize amounts.

Prizes will be paid via bank transfer in euros. The prize amount will be subject to standard Spanish tax regulations.

To claim their prize, winners (or at least one member of winning groups) must be present at the awards ceremony (9:00 p.m. at Roca Barcelona Gallery). Failure to attend will result in forfeiture of the prize, though they will still retain their status as winners.

If, before payment, the Organization detects that any winning project fails to meet the conditions of these terms (due to lack of originality, authorship issues, etc.), the project will be disqualified, and the substitute winners will move up in the ranking. If there are no available substitutes, the prize will be declared void. Jury decisions are final.

Presentation: For the development of their projects, participants may use any manual or digital tools such as 2D or 3D software, models, photography, collage, etc. However, the concepts must be described and illustrated on a maximum of two A3-sized sheets.

The projects must be submitted through the website using the registration number of the participant or team, which can be found in the “Participants area” section of the official Roca Design Challenge website.

The submission window for projects will be between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. on October 18th.

To be able to submit their work, participants must have previously registered within the established registration period. Only one project may be submitted per registered participant or group.

To ensure participant confidentiality, the real name of the participant or group must not appear in the submitted files. Projects will be identified exclusively by the registration number.

Each participant or group must submit 2 digital files that must meet the following specifications:

 

• Each .pdf and .jpeg file must not exceed 1,500 Kb.
• The name of both files must be only the registration number, without any additional characters.
• Additionally, the registration number may be included in the project images, but this is not mandatory.

Projects should preferably be submitted in English, but submissions in Spanish will also be accepted.

Any submission that does not meet the above requirements will not be evaluated by the jury.

Participants should note that the jury will only use the PDF document for evaluation purposes. The JPEG document will be used solely for communication and dissemination purposes.

Others: The spirit of this exercise is to foster the creativity of the participants during the hours the competition lasts. Therefore, submitted works must be original and must not have been used previously for any other purpose.

The submitted projects should consist of a realistic object with good design, considered functional, and consistent with the competition briefing announced by the organization and with the technologies existing at the time of the competition.

The intellectual property of the submitted works belongs to their authors.

However, the company Roca Sanitario, S.A. will have priority for one year from the date of submission of the proposal presented to the competition to reach an agreement with any participant regarding the rights to use the submitted proposals.

By registering for the competition, participants (including winners and finalists):

(I) Grant companies within Roca Group reproduction, distribution, and communication rights over submitted projects worldwide, for the maximum legal period in each country, for the purpose of promoting projects through general-interest or specialized publications, websites, and Roca editions/publications, including the competition website.

(II) Grant Roca Group companies the right to sublicense reproduction and publication rights of submitted projects to third parties without prior consent from the authors, solely for promotional purposes.

(III) Authorize Roca Group companies to publish images captured of participants during the competition in any medium, worldwide, and for the maximum legally allowed duration.

(IIII) Registration in this contest implies authorization by the registered participants for any company of the Roca Group to publish, through any medium, images captured during the competition, whether photographic or video. This authorization is understood to be granted worldwide and for the maximum period allowed by law.

Any disputes or conflicts regarding the interpretation of these terms will be resolved by the jury. Any matters not regulated by these terms will be resolved equitably. Jury decisions are final.

The organization reserves the right to: (i) disqualify participants and/or withdraw the prize if participants breach any of these terms and conditions or other rules and regulations of the Roca One Day Design Challenge, or violate any applicable law or regulation; (ii) modify or suspend the Roca One Day Design Challenge and/or its terms and conditions at its discretion, without prior notice.

Roca, as the organizer of the contest, shall not be responsible for: (i) any expenses incurred by participants in their participation in the Roca One Day Design Challenge; (ii) any damage or loss caused by the cancellation/modification of the Roca One Day Design Challenge, modification or revocation of all or part of these terms and conditions, or other force majeure circumstances beyond Roca’s control.

Roca shall not be responsible for any damage or loss of participants’ belongings.

By registering for this contest, participants agree that their data will be included in a file owned by Roca Sanitario, S.A. (Spain), located at Avenida Diagonal 513, 08029 Barcelona – Spain, which is responsible for processing this file, whose purpose is to manage participation in the contest. The legal basis for data processing is the consent of the participants.

For any other purpose, the express consent of the participants will be required.

Participants may exercise their rights to information, access, rectification, deletion, cancellation of processing, objection, data portability, and to avoid automated decision-making by submitting a written request to Roca Sanitario, S.A. Exercising the rights of cancellation and objection will result in the withdrawal of the participant’s registration from the contest, as the data is necessary to manage participation in the event.

Registration in this contest implies acceptance of these terms and conditions. For more information, please contact: designchallenge.sp@roca.net