Recently, the 11th Future Designer-2023 National College Digital Art and Design Competition announced their results. NEFU students from the School of Home and Art Design and the School of Landscape Architecture won 3 first prizes, 5 second prizes, 7 third prizes and 131 provincial prizes, and several teachers won the Excellent Teachers award. Additionally, the School of Home and Art design, as the host of the Heilongjiang competition, won the Outstanding Contribution Award among 29 universities.

NEFU has participated in the competition for three consecutive years. During competition, the School of Home and Art Design, the School of Landscape Architecture and the School of Humanity and Law carried out training activities and selected 259 undergraduates and graduates forming 23 groups to compete within four months. Led by the teachers, each group won excellent awards through their hard efforts in improving their works. By practicing the concept of green home and ecological design, all teachers and students from the School of Home and Art Design integrated “science” with “art” and created green-oriented innovative works such as Immersive Forest Science Web, Submersible Soil Remediation Robot and Sea Ranch Service System. We earned four more awards than in 2022, demonstrating the development ideal of professional level of “NEFU’s Design” and “Nurture People through Forestry”.

The Future Designer-National College Digital Art Design Competition (NCDA) is a national college student competition sponsored by the Talent Exchange Center of the MIIT, recognized by China Society of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, and supported by the learning platform of "Learning Power" with the issuance of documents by 15 provincial education departments. The competition adheres to the concept of Designing for the People and Cultivating Future Designers, sticks to the equal importance of art and technique, academics and public welfare, advocates sustainable development, green and low-carbon design, carries forward the red culture, and facilitates the revitalization of the countryside. The competition encourages university students to take part in innovation and design, serve society with their professional knowledge, expand their international vision and cultivate the spirit of teamwork so as to become the main designers of the future. A total of 1826 universities participated in this year’s competition, collecting 289,865 works in total, and the participation rate of “985 project universities” and first-class universities amount to 92.85%; the judging system of “five rounds, three levels and double publicity” was adopted. The works were evaluated through the process of “school-level competition”-“qualification competition”-“provincial preliminary competition”-“provincial final competition (public announcement)”-“national final competition (public announcement)”. Finally, the awards for the provincial and national competitions were decided.