World Accreditation Day 2025 Poster Contest

IAF and ILAC are holding a poster contest for World Accreditation Day (WAD) 2025! All interested parties are welcome to explore our theme of Accreditation: Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), with a chance of winning the first-place prize of 1,500 USD or the second- or third-place prizes of 500 USD.

SMEs are essential to the global economy, driving innovation, creating jobs and supporting local communities. However, these businesses often face challenges such as limited resources, competition and difficulty accessing markets. This year’s WAD theme will highlight how accreditation can serve as a tool to address these challenges and support SMEs. Learn more about the theme here.

View the official contest rules, including guidelines for submission, below.

Read about last year’s winner and runners-up here.

WAD 2025 Official Poster Contest Rules

1. Poster Design

Design the 2025 World Accreditation Day poster illustrating how accreditation and conformity assessment support Accreditation: Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

The Poster must include the following:

1. Text:

World Accreditation Day
Accreditation: Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
09 June 2025

2. The logos of the two organisations in the following order:

3. Editable text to ensure reproducibility in other languages

4. Fully editable design so that elements may be included in WAD branding.

Submissions must be the entrant’s original work. Use of others’ work or breach of intellectual property rights of others will result in disqualification of the entrant.

2. Submissions

All entries must be received via the official competition entry form at https://tinyurl.com/ypdbyhpd by 23:59 UTC, 02 January 2025 and include A2 Poster PNG and PDF formats, of 300 DPI with a 5mm bleed, and all associated design files. Design files may be submitted via WeTransfer, Google Drive, Dropbox link or equivalent if too large. The links to the files must be provided via the form mentioned above.

The following information is also required for completing the form:

1. Full name
2. Economy/country
3. A short biography
4. Profile photo

Additional information may be required upon winning the contest.

Up to 3 submissions will be accepted from both individuals and/or teams.

3. Eligibility

Anyone over 18 years old can enter the contest, except for directors, executives, secretariat staff and officers of the organizers, and their respective spouses, parents, siblings, and children. IAF and ILAC member organizations and their staff are eligible to participate if they are not from those excluded above.

Both individuals and teams are eligible for participation.

4. Prizes

The winning team will receive USD 1,500, while second and third places will receive USD 500 each.

5. Terms & Conditions

IAF and ILAC reserve the right to use the entrant’s submission worldwide. The entrant grants IAF and ILAC the royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license to copy, distribute, and display each submitted entry in any media, including posting in an online gallery, publication(s), and various marketing materials, and the right to use, copy, modify, edit, and create derivative works therefrom, and agrees to execute documents confirming such right and license at the organizers’ reasonable request.

The full terms & conditions can be found at https://tinyurl.com/mnztyhdc.