Roca Around the World Roca Master Design Challenge, the world final of Roca’s express design competition The event focused on innovation, design and sustainability and was aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Roca invited all contestants who won the first prize in the thirteen editions of the Roca One Day Design Challenge held in 2019 to participate in the first edition of the Roca Master Design Challenge, the world final of Roca’s express design competition. Focusing on design, innovation and sustainability, the program of activities of the event was aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations and was held in collaboration with the BDC (Barcelona Design Center). The participants, from all countries where the competition was held in 2019–Poland, Portugal, Argentina, Russia, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Oman, Bulgaria, Arab Emirates, China, Madrid and Barcelona–, had the chance to attend workshops and talks on topics that were highly interesting for them in different spaces linked to design such as the materials workshop at Materfad, the Barcelona Materials Center; or the digital manufacturing workshop masterclass at Fab Lab. The program also included cultural visits to emblematic sites in the city and an architectural tour around 22@ with Nicanor García, architect and photographer, who taught them tricks related to architecture photography and encouraged them to create and share their own pieces. The awards ceremony took place at the Saló de Cent in Barcelona's Town Council Contestants also had to face the design of a product for the bathroom space in a limited time, following the traditional format of the Roca One Day Design Challenge, although with a few novelties such as the submission of a sketch and a render and the oral presentation of the project. The final ended with the awards ceremony at the emblematic Saló de Cent at Barcelona’s Town Council, a space built in 1373 and where mayors traditionally take office. The ceremony was attended by the consuls of some of the participating countries, such as Poland, Argentina, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Arab Emirates, Bulgaria and China, a gesture that reconfirms their interest in supporting the young talents of their own countries and also provides an important institutional recognition to Roca’s work in the promotion of this kind of activities. The winner of this world final was Ahmad Alkattan, the representative from United Arab Emirates. His project “Exsinka” consists of a basin that can be moved wherever it is needed with the use of an app in the mobile phone. Equipped with castors, “Exsinka” is specifically designed for people with reduced mobility and represents, in the words of the jury, “an opportunity to rethink the static elements in the bathroom, adding a mobile piece that can be Participants during the materials masterclass used even outside the bathroom space.” 8