The Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University hosts this international summer program, organized by the university’s Art and Technology Innovation Base. The 2026 theme was Design Futures: Shared Vision, with teams developing prototypes across resilient aero-urbanism, blue-life, and socio-digital tracks.
Selected teams worked in Beijing and partner venues through workshops, mentoring, company visits, project development, and a final roadshow. The published 2026 cycle has ended, and the official site has not announced dates for a later cycle.
Benefits & funding
- Selected teams receive a tuition waiver.
- The organizer provides an unspecified stipend for accommodation and local transportation.
- Participants receive access to classrooms, maker-lab equipment, smart hardware, and necessary consumables.
- Teams pay their own international travel, visa, insurance, personal, and out-of-program travel costs.
Eligibility
- Apply as an international student team of 2–4 people; the official entry form also accepts applicants attending in a personal capacity.
- Every team member must be currently enrolled at undergraduate level or above.
- Applicants should study design or a related interdisciplinary innovation field and demonstrate teamwork and cross-cultural communication skills.
- Applicants must be fluent enough to work in English.
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Application process
- 1Form an eligible team of 2–4 students, or apply in a personal capacity on the same form, and choose one of the listed project areas.
- 2Prepare an initial proposal with a project overview, video introduction, and related images; the PDF may be no more than 10 pages and the video no larger than 200 MB.
- 3Enter participant details in the official form and submit the proposal through a Dropbox link by the deadline.
- 4Selected teams receive an invitation letter, arrange their own visas and return flights, and travel to Beijing for registration.
Program timeline
Proposal submission deadline
May 22, 2026
Final selected teams announced
Jun 1, 2026
Program starts and registration in Beijing
Jun 29, 2026
Program ends
Jul 12, 2026