The University Roma Tre, after having been awarded a third place in the Solar Decathlon edition 2012, this year has been admitted to participate to this year competition with the project Rhome for Dencity. The objective is to win the first place as the team that has realized the most energy saving dwelling run on solar energy and equipped with the best technologies to help reduce waste and expenses.

The final stage of the competition will take place in Versailles, France where twenty teams   from  universities selected worldwide will compete on the realization of a dwelling with the above mentioned requirements.     

The universities entering the 2014 edition are the following:

1.       Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - School of Engineering and Architecture / Lucerne - Suisse

2.       Universisad de Castilla - La Mancha / Universidad de Alcala de HenaresUniversity /

          Plateau Team

3.       Chiba University / Chiba University Japan

4.       ENSA Nantes / ESB / Audencia Group / Audencia Nantes / Ecole des Mines Nantes / ISSBA / IUT Nantes/ Architectes ingénieur sassociés / Atlansun

          / Institut des matériaux Jean Rouxel /Medieco / Novabuild/ SAMOA / SCE / Altantic Challenge

5.       Technical University of Denmark - DTU / DTU

6.       Academy of Architecture / IIT Bombay / TEAM SHUNYA

7.       Universidad tecnica Federico Santa Maria - Valparaiso / Université de la Rochelle - EspaceBois de l'IUT /CASA FENIX – UTFSM

8.       Université d'Angers / Appalachian state university / Team Réciprocité

9.       University of the arts Berlin / TUB technical university of Berlin / TEAM ROOFTOP

10.     Technical University of civil engineering Bucharest / University Politehnica of Bucharest / University of architecture and urbanism "IonMincu" / Team  

         Bucharest 2014

11.    Rhode Island School of design and Brown University / University of applied sciences - Erfurt / Team Inside out

12.   Delft University of technology / Delft Versailles 2014

13.   University of applied sciences Frankfurt amMain / ONTOP

14.   Costa Rica Institute of technology - Cartago / TEC team

15.   Université Paris-Est / ENSA Paris Malaquais / ENSA Marne la Vallée / ESTP Paris / Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech / ESIEE Paris / ENSG / IFSTTAR / UPE

        TEAM

16.   Università degli Studi di Roma TRE / Rhome4 DenCity

17.   King Mongkut's University of technology Thonburi / Kmutt Team

18.   UniversitatPolitècnica de Catalunya - Barcelone / BarcelonaTech 2014

19.   National Chiao Tung University / NCTU - UNICODE

20.   Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México / the center of research in industrial design and the schoo lof engineering and the school of arts / MEXICO