On Oct. 18, 2007, the Spanish and U.S. governments signed a memorandum of understanding to create Solar Decathlon Europe, a complementary competition to the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. Spain hosted the first two of these competitions in 2010 and 2012. In 2014, Solar Decathlon Europe will move north to France.
Solar Decathlon Europe 2014
- Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 will take place in Versailles, France, June 28–July 14, 2014. The participating teams are:
- Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Engineering and Architecture
- Universisad de Castilla – La Mancha and Universidad de Alcala de Henares University
- Chiba University
- ENSA Nantes, ESB, Audencia Group, Audencia Nantes, Ecole des Mines Nantes, ISSBA, IUT Nantes, Architectes Ingénieurs Associés, Atlansun, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Medieco, Novabuild, SAMOA, and SCE
- Technical University of Denmark
- Academy of Architecture and IIT Bombay
- Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria – Valparaiso and Université de la Rochelle – Espace Bois de l’IUT
- Université d’Angers and Appalachian state university
- University of the Arts Berlin and Technical University of Berlin
- Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, University Politehnica of Bucharest, and University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu”
- Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and University of Applied Sciences – Erfurt
- Delft University of Technology
- University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main
- Costa Rica Institute of Technology – Cartago
- Université Paris-Est, ENSA Paris Malaquais, ENSA Marne la Vallée, ESTP Paris, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, ESIEE Paris, ENSG, and IFSTTAR
- Universitá Degli Studi di Roma TRE
- King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona
- National Chiao Tung University
- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México and the Center of Research in Industrial Design and the School of Engineering and the School of Arts.
