FAQ
• 4th SIDA is a financial support program with no age limited which can encourage and support young local design talents to develop and expand their own business without worrying the huge winner promotion expense.
• Minimize the financial burden of talented local designers and encourage them to enter the international competitions/awards under the government financial support.
• Cultivate active participation and exchange amongst local and international designers.
• Designers will have a chance to meet with practitioners around the world in the overseas award presentation, which allows you to exchange design insights and keep abreast of the most updated industry knowledge.
• For individuals, they must be permanent residents of Hong Kong and holders of Hong Kong 3-star ID cards.
• For design companies or design-applying enterprises, they must be locally registered and have Hong Kong Business Registration (BR) and Certificate of Incorporation (CI).
• Winners of specified international competitions/awards can apply to Scheme A.
• Winners of specified local competitions/awards to enter international competitions/awards can apply Scheme B to obtain the reimbursement of entry fee of international competition.
• No age-limited and not only limited to design practitioners only. (If the public or design students have the capacity and talents to gain the specific awards, they are warmly welcome to apply too.)
For Scheme B, each applicant can only submit a maximum of 3 applications. Also the awardees must have to use the same winning works in the specific local awards to enter the listed international competitions and awards, other designs under their names will not be subsidized in this scheme.
For Scheme A, SIDA does not restrict the number of awards, but restricts the maximum reimbursement amount of each award to HKD$ 100,000 and the maximum reimbursement amount of each design unit to HKD$ 200,000 under the First-Come-First-Served Basis.
• Application will be counted on a First-Come-First-Served Basis based on the submission date of their application form.
• If the key information is missing, eg. flight ticket details, a 1-month period will be provided for participants to supplement the missing information. Reimbursement will continue until the fund has run out.
Reimbursement will be processed within 3 months after the application is considered successful.
All past applicants of the Sponsorship for International Design Award (SIDA) Scheme are eligible to apply for sponsorship under the 4th SIDA program again. However, applicants who have received sponsorship in both the 2nd SIDA (2020) and 3rd SIDA (2021/22) editions will have their sponsorship/funding level reduced from 100% to 50% of the claim amount under this 4th SIDA edition if they submit the same product/design work for sponsorship for a third time.