2. Conditions for application

• The project must be completed and disclosed to the public in the period from January 1st 2011 to December 31st 2012.
• Applicants must obtain permission of the entry from the persons associated in the project before the application.
• entry never infringe any patents, design rights, and intellectual property right.
• An entry by individual or group is accepted.
• IEIJ member or nonmember can apply for the award. However on commendation ceremony at least one recipient should be a member of IEIJ.
• Any works completed inside and outside of Japan are available.
• The awarded projects will be announced in the journal and on the home page of the IEIJ and shall be presented at an annual conference of the IEIJ.
• All materials, including photographs, will becomes the property of the IEIJ. The IEIJ will have reproduction privileges of them without permission of applicants. Please notify us if you require a credit.
• However, even if an entry is a foreign thing, it meets to the environmental protection relation rules made in Japan as well as a domestic thing.

3. Commendation

• The commendation by this award may be less than one affair according to each category. A commendation will not be held in the case of no awards.
• Some projects might be given the incentive award which is worth of it.

4. Application procedure

• An application form is available to download at the bottom of this section.
• Additional documents for the project should be in A4-size with up to 3 sheets. Images less than 10 must be pasted 4 images each on page in Word or Power Point format. All images in original data should be put in a separate folder in case of lowering the quality. Please refer to the table below about the size of image.
• As additional information the video less than 3 minutes is accepted.
• Please submit all application documents by CD-ROM or DVD listed the project name with plastic package and also the hard copy.
• Please enclose a copy of brochure of the affiliation the applicants belong to.
• All application documents will not be returned to an applicant.

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5. Judging

• The projects are judged in terms of originality, progressivity, emotivity, durability, sociality and economy.
• A Judging committee is set up in the IEIJ and judges against specific criteria.
• Judges, Tenji Wake,Yasusuke Miyaji, Setsuko Ando, Koichi Kaiho, Motoya Takami, Shigeo Kobayashi, Reiko Chikada, Tadashi Doi, Yasuyuki Tomita, Jun Matsumoto, Etsuko Mochizuki, Tetsuo Yamaya , and Hiroshi Kansaku