3DPC2025 The Finalists are detected!

10 years 3D Pioneers Challenge

Searching for the Pioneer of the Decade!

In this year 2025, the 3D Pioneers Challenge (3DPC) celebrates its 10th anniversary!
Since 2015, the competition for additive manufacturing and advanced technologies has been offering pioneers a stage at rapid.tech 3D. Innovations have been honored that pushed the boundaries of what is possible, inspired the sector and thus significantly advanced it. From students and start-ups to research institutes and industry giants - year after year, the submissions have become more international and numerous, the categories more diverse and the jury participation more cross-industry.

Congratulations to the 3DPC2025 Finalists!

The 33 Finalists are selected by the jury out of numerous submissions! Former finalists and winners of the last nine years were nominated to submit their latest projects and their "story" for this 10 years edition.

Event

The decade-exhibition will take place at rapid.tech 3D, at Messe Erfurt, 13-15 May 2025.
Be there to see the decade exhibition of 3DPC and when the industry meets in Erfurt, focusing on practical applications, innovative technologies and forward-looking AM trends.

...it stays exciting!
Keep fingers crossed till the award ceremony! 14 May, 2:45pm!
at rapid.tech 3D, stage hall 2 - that´s when the special titel Pioneer of the Decade will be awarded.

Award - "Pioneer of the Decade"

3DPC Trophy
The winner will be awarded the coveted "3DPC Jubilee Trophy". This limited edition design object, created especially for the 3DPC, was developed in 2020 as a project within "3DPC & Friends", in cooperation with the jury member Ross Lovegrove, the winner of "3DPC 2019 Digital" Hyperganic and partner Materialise .

The Book - pushing boundaries
The Pioneer of the Decade wins the opportunity to become part of the book pushing bounadries, that will be published as a highlight of 3DPC in the anniversary year 2025 by the publishing house avedition.
In the year of the 10th anniversary of the 3D Pioneers Challenge, the time is just right to capture the groundbreaking innovations of the last decade that make an impact and create history. And these stories are written in books. Beside the industry leaders from the platform's network the winner will have his say with an exclusive impulse contribution. The book summarizes the major movements and milestones of the decade and draws an outlook for the future - in the spirit of pushing boundaries.

Timeline

Check out the newest projects of the finalists bellow and further details on our social media channel till the exhibition #3dpioneerschallenge!

Finalist

FIDENTIS
Fraunhofer IGCV – Project Group FIDENTIS
Founders: Max Horn, Lukas Langer, Timo Schröder, Johannes Lauer // Co-inventors & dental experts: Josef Schweiger, Kurt Erdelt, Oliver Schubert, Jan-Frederik Güth, Johannes Trimpl // Mentor: Christian Seidel
DEU
BRIGITTE KOCK -Spiky Modular Bag
Brigitte Kock
Brigitte Kock - Variable Seams, Melissa Kaye - Cookiecad filament, Nathan Apter - Cookiecad filament
GBR
SÜß & FRIENDS: Quick Change Cell System - Advancing Lab Efficiency
Ingenieurbüro Süß & friends
Philipp Süß, Timothy Teiber, Tim Heinig, in collaboration with the EMCLAB instruments Team
DEU
OKPAMEN OBASOGIE - 3D Printed Bike Lugs
Dunamis-Cognitio Limited
Obasogie Okpamen, Alex Ionut
NGA
TU BRAUNSCHWEIG - Shotcrete 3D Printing
TU Braunschweig _ Institute of Structural Design
Harald Kloft, Norman Hack, Fatemeh Salehi Amiri, Meike Bährens, Abtin Baghdadi, Robin Dörrie, Stefan Gantner, Lukas Ledderose, Jeldrik Mainka, Philipp Rennen, Bartlomiej Sawicki, Julian Tesche, Jan-Phillip Zöllner
DEU
GANIT GOLDSTEIN: GnoMon / Color-changing 3D printed necklaces / Ne-Kōgei 3D Printing Fashion Collection
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
GnoMon: Ganit Goldstein x Stratasys / Color-changing 3D printed necklaces, Ne-Kōgei 3D Printing Fashion Collection: Ganit Goldstein
USA
SKETCHURIZER++ | CAD-Based 3D-Models Powered by Generative AI.
GenerIO GmbH (i.G.)
Dr. Uwe Grünefeld, Dr. Jonas Auda, Metehan Ertas, Niklas Pfützenreuter, Prof. Dr. Stefan Schneegass
DEU
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - BioFabX
Texas A&M University
USA
MX3D - Suspension Strut Support BMW Group
MX3D
Tobias Hauser (BMW Group), Johannes Pauli (BMW Group), Jean-François Moulin (MX3D), Thomas Van Glabeke (MX3D)
NLD
ARTHUR MAMOU-MANI - The roe restaurant / The roof gardens lift / Altostrada /
Mamou-Mani LTD
THE ROE RESTAURANT: WHERE DINING MEETS NATURE Mamou-Mani Architects, Fab Pub // THE ROOF GARDENS LIFT: ELEVATING URBAN ELEGANCE Mamou-Mani Architects, Fab Pub // ALTOSTRATA: A 3D-PRINTED PARAMETRIC PAVILION Mamou-Mani Architects, Therme Group, Fab Pub, Arup, Therme Arc, Special Thanks: AI BUILD and CNC ROBOTICS
GBR
REINFORCE3D- Reinforced DronVTol
REINFORCE 3D
Clément Badon, Marc Crescenti, Bartu Mompean
ESP
WASP - GLAMS Project - 3D Printing Geopolymers from Lunar Soils
WASP
Funded by ASI – Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. Coordinated by Center for Space Studies and Activities "Giuseppe Colombo" (CISAS) of the University of Padua. Partnerships with WASP and Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry and Energy Technologies of the CNR (ICMATE).
ITA
ATLANT - NANOFABRICATOR™ ZERO G
ATLANT 3D
Maksym Plakhotnyuk, Bonnie Tsim, Vitalii Balitskyi, Mira Baraket  
DNK
PRINT A DRINK

Benjamin Greimel
AUT
PARTBOX
Schubert Additive Solutions
Marcus Schindler, Jörg Brenner, Conrad Zanzinger, Moritz Schmitz, Fabian Wetsch
DEU
GRAVITY INDUSTRIES - SAM ROGERS: Gravity Jet suit / Tandem Ventures
Gravity Industries
Gravity Jet suit: Richard Browning, Sam Rogers and Alex Wilson, EOS / Tandem Ventures: Sam Rogers, Edwin Towler, Rob Love, Raj Singh
GBR
EMERGING OBJECTS: Future Archeologies 2049 / Potterware
Emerging objects
Future Archeologies 2049: Virginia San Fratello, Marta Potenza, Frederica Cinquepalma, Mira Principe, Leela Sirdar / Potterware: Ronald Rael, Virginia San Fratello, Barrak Darweesh, Constantina Tsiara, Alexander Curth
USA
FELICIA HAMM - Reversible 4D Printing with plotable wood ink
Westfälische Hochschule Campus Bocholt
Felicia Hamm, Karima Saddedine, Prof. Heike Beissmann
DEU
URWAHN - Stadtfuchs – The E-Bike for Forward-Thinking Mobility and Urban Lifestyle
Urwahn Engineering GmbH
Sebastian Meinecke, Rick Wernecke, Christian Stahl
DEU
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY - 3D Printed Heart
Tel Aviv University
Tal Dvir's Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Dept. of Molecular Micro. & Biotechnology George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology _ Noor Nadav, Dr. Assaf Shapira, Dr. Reuven Edri, Idan Gal, Lior Wertheim, Dr. Tal Dvir
ISR
JULIA KOERNER - Frozen Music x Berliner Philharmoniker
JK Design GmbH
Julia Koerner, Andreas Vierziger, IFA 2024, Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings JK3D Team: Oliver Hamedinger, Naomi Neururer and Kais Al-Rawi
AUT
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - 3D Printing Magnetophoretic Displays / SoldlessPCB
University of Maryland
Zeyu Yan, Hsuanling Lee, Liang He, Huaishu Peng
USA
CHRISTOPHE GUBERAN - Rapid Liquid Printing / Augmented Curtain x Kvadrat / UPS - Under Pressur Solution

RLP: Bjorn Sparrman Schendy Kernizan, Jared Laucks, Skylar Tibbits and Christophe Guberan // Augmented Curtain x Kvadrat: Christophe Guberan in Collaboration with Camille Blin // UPS: ÉCAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne; Research Team: Camille Blin, Christophe Guberan, Anthony Guex, Chris Kabel and Julie Richoz
CHE
MATTISSE
LATTICE MEDICAL
Amélia Jordao, Antonin Debaupte, Adeline Cozzani, Carlyn George, Chloé Gigon, Clément Loire, Damien Cleret, Emanuela Basile, Emma Legname, Florian Plouviez, Jaime Destouesse, Jérôme Segers, Julien Payen, Jumoké Alakinde, Kévin Roux, Kévin Trinh, Lou Pasquier, Mégann Le Rest, Philippe Marchetti, Pierre Guerreschi, Pierre-Marie Danze, Shengheng Cao, Siham Bouyouaaran, Solemne Demeyere, Valérie Dumay
FRA
ROYAL3D - ShearWater autonomous drone
Royal 3D
Bob De Reus, Boyuan Zhang, Hessel Hutabart, Fulko Roos, Alexey Shifman, Viktoriya Radeva
NLD
LEAP71 - Noyron
LEAP 71
Josefine Lissner, Lin Kayser
ARE
FLIPOQ - FLIPoQs In-House-Upcycling
FLIPoQ GmbH
Böger, Jael Magdalene; Cremer, Tobias; Schefczik, Birk Martin; Butzke, Jens
DEU
ROSS LOVEGROVE - jnf x lovegrove
JNF Architectural Hardware
Ross Lovegrove
PRT
JANNE KYTTANEN - 3DTI
What The Future
NLD
TIFFANY CHENG - Solar Gate: Weather-responsive adaptive shading
Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD)
Tiffany Cheng, Yasaman Tahouni, Ekin Sila Sahin, Kim Ulrich, Silvia Lajewski, Christian Bonten, Dylan Wood, Jürgen Rühe, Thomas Speck, Achim Menges
USA
WILLOWPRINT
RWTH Aachen
Dr.-Ing. Joost Meyer, Dr.-Ing. Federico Garrido, Emilia Grüne, Ana Ferretti Martarello, Laurin Toussaint
DEU
ETH ZÜRICH pd|z inspire AG - ARIS Liquid Rocket Engine / Next Generation of Engineering Design Tools
ETH Zürich, inspire AG
ARIS Liquid Rocket Engine -Pioneering Student Rocket: ETH Zürich - pd|z _ Philip Wolf, Alec Dürrenmatt, Alexandros Ntakoulas, Domenic Nebiker, Florian Paulweber, Jan Menti, Joel Tan, Matteo Vass, Patrick Egli, Bruno Berger, Dino Fassino, Fabian Wiedemeier, Panagiotis Mastorakis, Julian Ferchow, Mirko Meboldt //Next Generation of Engineering Design Tools: ETH Zürich, inspire AG _ Urs Hofmann, Patrick Beutler, Manuel Biedermann, Mirko Meboldt
CHE
DANIT PELEG - CC0
Danit Peleg 3D
Danit Peleg in Collaboration with nounsDAO
PRT

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