


Celebrating industry achievements
Established in 2016, these awards celebrate organisations and initiatives at the forefront of student and shared living, working, and learning. This year again, we strongly encourage everyone who is passionate about student and shared living to apply to celebrate your achievements together as a community.
Finalist selection
Finalists are selected by The Class Foundation. Team members assess applications separately and compare scores to select the finalists.
Jury assessment
The finalists' applications are sent to the jury separately. The Class Foundation then tallies their scores and weighs it for 85% of the total assessment.
Online voting
We will implement online voting to get our community engaged, excited, and inspired by the finalists. This weighs for 15% of the total assessment.
The jury is hand selected from best and brightest experts in the student living & higher education sectors.
Applications open
Applications close
Finalists announced
Voting opens
Voting closes - 18:00 CET
Winners announced
Winners.
Best Student Housing Property
Winner: Student Experience Madrid Pozuelo
Best Mixed-Use Development
Winner: HIFE - THE BOOST SOCIETY
Best Student Housing Operator
Winner: Livensa Living
Best Resident Well-being Programme
Winner: The Social Hub
Best Young Talent
Winner: RESA - Guillem Mayoral
Best Sustainable Student Property
Winner: Student Experience Madrid Pozuelo
Best Affordable Housing Initiative
Winner: Resa - Resa's coordinators, Pis Amic, and others
Best Student Housing Design
Winner: Relife - Turin
Best PropTech Solution
Winner: Home for Student - Resident Experience and Well-being App KLIQ
Sponsors.
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Best Student Housing Operator
An award recognizing the student housing operators that have provided the best quality of living for their residents. The winner will have gone that extra mile in ensuring the best provision of services that go beyond just meeting the needs and desires of the next generation of students.
Finalists:
Yugo
The Boost Society (KLEY, HIFE, CAMPUS)
Homes for Students
Livensa Living
Collegiate AC Group
Valeo Management
Nido
Best Student Housing Property
An award recognising public and/or private student accommodation that exemplifies the ultimate environment for student living. The award nominees create the best potential for their students to learn, grow, and gain lifelong memories through its community, services, facilities, and design. The property needs to have opened between 2022 - 2023.
Finalists:
Student Experience - Student Experience Madrid
micampus Residencias - Micampus Wynwood
aparto Student - Barcelona Pallars
1 Asset Management - Shed Co-living
Greystar - Canva Manchester
Best Resident Wellbeing Programme
An award recognizing initiatives that have significantly improved student resident wellbeing. We are looking for great examples of programmes that promote and enhance student mental health and create a vibrant community life in student residences.
Finalists:
Abodus Living
Student Roost
This is Fresh
aparto Student - aparto Milan Ripamonti
The Social Hub
Best Young Talent
An award recognizing the shining stars within our industry. This is for those talents that went the extra mile this year despite the unforeseen obstacles. The candidate should be up to the age of 35 and nominated by the employer or peers.
Finalists:
McComb Students - Paul McComb
CRM Students - James Brant
Harris Associates - Josh Roesenberg
RESA - Residencias de Estudiantes - Guillem Mayoral
Yugo - Hollie Martin
Student Roost - Chloe Herbert
Best PropTech Solution
An award recognising the development and application of innovative digital technology that contributes to enhancing the quality of student housing. The winning technology positively impacts various aspects such as resident satisfaction, retention rates, sustainability, efficiency, flexibility, and cost reduction.
Finalists:
Lavanda
Novel Student and Utopi
Kinetic
HousingAnywhere
Homes for Students
Best Sustainable Student Property
An award recognizing innovative student housing properties which have successfully incorporated sustainability throughout their (re)design, construction, and operation. These properties pave the way for next-generation living.
Finalists:
Hines - aparto Milan Ripamonti
micampus Residencias
Harrison Street - The Aspen
Student Experience - Student Experience Madrid
Amro Partners - Amro Pamplona
Best Mixed-Use Development
An award recognizing shared living developments that have successfully created the ultimate space and place for a variety of tenants and activities. As concluded at our previous conference, The Future is Blended! Especially now with covid-19, we've seen a rapid increase in mixed-use developments that combine places to work, learn, and live. Examples of blends we've observed include coworking, coliving, student living, senior living, retail, micro-living, short/long stay. We're eager to hear your blend! The development needs to have been launched between 2022 - 2023.
Finalists:
Catella Residential Investment Management - Berlin Pestalozzistr
The Boost Society - HIFE
Greystar - Be Casa Rivas
Best Campus Development
An award recognising the campus, both physical and virtual, which successfully fosters a new knowledge ecosystem. Key traits for a stellar campus are innovation, sustainability, flexibility, and increased student satisfaction. The types of developments we're looking for can demonstrate innovation in facilities, technologies, buildings, services, programmes, environmental and social performance.
Who should apply?
- Higher education institutions• Architects & design firms
- Public/private partnerships
Application
To apply for this category, you will need to answer the below three questions. Each question will be evaluated based on a five-point scale and per answer there is a limit of 2000 characters.
- Which development have you implemented and why?
- What has the response been from students and staff? Please provide qualitative and/or quantitative evidence on user satisfaction.
- Is this development scalable, if so, how?
When applying, you will be allowed to upload a presentation to give the jury members a better impression through photos and videos.
Best Affordable Housing Initiative
At The Class Foundation, we believe every student should have and be able to have access to a place to call home. This means, our community needs to work together to offer a variety of housing solutions and price offerings. With this award, we want to spotlight initiatives that positively impact student housing affordability, i.e., research projects, pilots, policy changes, scholarships, grants etc.
Finalists:
Garentii
Viennabase (base - homes for students GmbH)
RESA - Residencias de Estudiantes
INZMO
Best Student Housing Design
An award recognising ground-breaking student housing design with a clear understanding of function, form, and spirit. This category can relate to variety of areas such as the entire property, interior, a specific area, and/or landscaping. We’re looking for those spaces that have been meticulously thought out to match student resident needs.
Finalists:
ReLife Nation - Turin
Collegiate AC Group - Milan North
tp bennett - Laude Living, Bologna
Student Experience - Student Experience Madrid
Basecamp Student - Wroclaw
A Designer At Heart Ltd - Nido Randwyck



