Save the Lake – Grand Prize in the “Printed Media” category 

MOME’s Save the Lake ecological cooperative board game received the Grand Prize in the “Printed Media” category of the Hungarian competition dedicated to education about the built environment. The project was developed during a Course Week by Fanni Csizmadia, Anita Farkas, András Túri, Dóra Szentandrási, Ábel Szalontai, and Olga Kocsi, with further contributions from Béla Hegyi, Evu Szabó, Máté Lencse, and Dorottya Kalocsai as part of MOME MAG Balatorium and is now being further expanded with the involvement of the Ecology and Action Lab. The game encourages those responsible for shaping and using the built environment to think ecologically and work collaboratively. 

Bazalt School – Grand Prize in the “School” category 

The winner of the “School” category – CAN Architects’ Bazalt School educational programme – also has multiple ties to MOME, with Head of the MOME Architecture BA programme and architect András Cseh among its leaders and authors, and the programme building on his doctoral research at MOME focusing on school architecture and education about the built environment. The project team – Szilárd Köninger, Ádám Tátrai, Dávid Németh, József Élő, Amália Bognár, and Álmos Szőcs – has worked with dozens of schools outside Budapest to create outdoor classrooms together with local students and teachers, reinforcing a culture of participatory design and fostering greater awareness of the built environment. 

Thanks to backing from the European Capital of Culture programme, both projects were able to scale up. 

“We are looking for the most successful, most compelling, and most impactful projects in the International Union of Architects’ triennial competition,” said Krisztina Somogyi, Hungarian delegate to the UIA international working group and assistant lecturer at the MOME Centre for Architecture. “We recognise established educational programmes and initiatives that not only shape architectural thinking, but also respond to pressing social and ecological challenges. The aim is to support the generation now growing up in taking an active role in creating a more responsible, balanced, collaborative, and liveable environment.” 

The winning projects now move on to the international round. The results will be announced in summer 2026 at the UIA World Congress in Barcelona.