The AIDA Awards is the first international programme celebrating creativity and forward-thinking design across the African continent.

AIDA Awards serves as an international stage to celebrate African designers while fostering a global conversation about Africa’s role in shaping the future of design. By highlighting innovative solutions to the continent’s diverse challenges, AIDA aims to spark conversation, inspire change, and increase international collaboration.

Africa faces a unique set of challenges, ranging from rapid urbanisation and limited resources to social inequality and environmental pressures, which demand creative and practical solutions. In this context, design plays a powerful role as a tool for problem-solving, cultural expression, and sustainable development. African designers are responding with innovation rooted in local knowledge, traditions, and resilience.

Africa International Design Awards is a programme under 3C Awards, a leading organisation curating and promoting design across the globe. The company represents today’s diversity and innovation in lighting design, sport design, shoe design, furniture design, interior design, and architecture.

Founded by Hossein Farmani and Astrid Hébert, 3C Awards is part of a larger organisation called 3C Group, which specialises in awards, marketing, media, and events. 3C Awards is under Three C Group GmbH, a Swiss-registered company based at Grabenstrasse 15a, 6340 Baar, Switzerland. More information is available at www.3Cawards.com.