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The National University of Technologies and Design, located in Kyiv, Ukraine, accepted Mind's challenge to participate on the international Mind ShoeDesign Award Contest. The contest, under the theme of Sustainability, and promoted by Mind, APICCAPS, CTCP and Shoelutions, is a competition open to professional and non-professional designers worldwide, while there is a simultaneous competition specifically reserved for school students.

The Technical University Gheorghe Asachi, located in IASI, Romania, accepted Mind's challenge to participate on the international Mind ShoeDesign Award Contest. The contest, under the theme of Sustainability, and promoted by Mind, APICCAPS, CTCP and Shoelutions, is a competition open to professional and non-professional designers worldwide, while there is a simultaneous competition specifically reserved for school students.

The Faculty of Industrial Design of the Romanian University of TUIASI, under a multi-year partnership agreement with Mind, uses MindCAD solutions in its footwear design and modeling courses.

Mind was awarded the COTEC Innovative Statute, an initiative of COTEC Portugal (*) and its banking partners. This award recognizes national companies for their capacity for innovation and value creation for Portugal.

Today we are glad to announce that the network of schools that have a protocol with Mind for the usage of MindCAD as teaching tool for specialized footwear design and conception has just been enlarged with the addition of NTI - Novosibirsk Technological Institute.

In the scope of its educational program Mind has signed a new agreement with the major university in Uzbekistan. MindCAD 2D and MindCAD 3D as well as Mind ShoeDesign will be used to teach the use of software CAD/CAM tools in the design and production of footwear.