Transatlantic Climate Bridge Design Contest
As a part of the 2024 Transatlantic Climate Bridge: NC and the Ostsee project, the Office of Global Engagement is seeking a design that emulates the Transatlantic linkages between Raleigh and Rostock.
About the Transatlantic Climate Bridge: NC and the Ostsee
Under the patronage of the German Consulate in Atlanta, NC State Global has designed a project and programming under the initiative of the “Transatlantic Climate Bridge” (TCB). The TCB is an initiative of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection. Projects under the TCB have fostered strengthened cooperation on climate and energy policy issues between Germany (and Europe as a whole) on one side of the Atlantic and the US and Canada on the other.
This project utilizes the framework of the Sister City relationship between Raleigh, North Carolina, and Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to examine climate change, sustainability, and biodiversity in these two river-basin and watershed geographies.
Call for submissions
NC State Global is looking for an image that can illustrate the linkages of Raleigh and Rostock areas and highlight the impact of the Transatlantic Climate Bridge. The project is specifically focusing on coastal sustainability in North Carolina and on the Baltic Coast in Germany, so the design should reflect this in some way.
- The design must include elements from both North Carolina and the Baltic Coast
- The design can be any medium, but please keep in mind it will be submitted and reprinted using a digital file
Please feel free to use the following images as inspiration for your design:
Downtown Raleigh, NC on a fall afternoon. Photo by Becky Kirkland. 
The NC State belltower on main campus. Photo by Marc Hall 
The sun sets on the SC portion of Bird Island. 
Oak Island Lighthouse rises against a cloudy spring sky. 
Image of Warnemünde beach on the Baltic Coast 
Image of the Warnemünde beach on the Baltic Coast. Credit: Wikimedia Commons 
Image of the Warnemünde beach on the Baltic Coast. Credit: Wikimedia Commons 
The harbor in Rostock, Germany 
Submission process
Submissions are due on November 11, 2024. To apply:
- Submit an application via the Google Form
- Email your design directly Allison Haskins, ahaskin2@ncsu.edu, to as a .AI, .PSD file, or as a high-resolution .JPG or .PNG file.
Please note, only those affiliated with NC State (students, staff, faculty) are eligible to submit a design.
The winner will be announced at the end of the week of November 11th, and the design will be showcased at the Transatlantic Climate Bridge closing event on November 21, as well as at different locations throughout Raleigh and Rostock.