The Student Starpack Awards challenge students to solve problems set by brand-leading FMCG companies, design agencies, and manufacturers, and win recognition of their excellence. Designed to encourage students to take up a career in consumer packaging design, these are the only awards in the UK aimed exclusively at providing a creative platform for new talent emerging from universities, colleges and schools.

The deadline for entries into the 2012 competition is 2 March 2012. The briefs on offer are:

• Food on the Move
• Festival Pack
• Blue Sky Soft Drinks
• Energy Structural Bottle Design
• New Uses for Corrugated Board
• Senior Friendly Child Resistant Packaging
• Premium End Packaging for Wine
• Busy Chocolate

New for 2012 is the cross-cutting Innovation Award, sponsored by The Packaging Society. Winners can expect to receive prizes of up to £500, work placement opportunities, recognition of their creativity, and a great addition to their CVs.

The awards have attracted an impressive array of sponsors - Coca Cola, Nestle and Britvic, plus many of the biggest names in packaging - DS Smith Packaging, the Benson Group, Logoplaste, Global Closure Systems, British Polythene Industries plc and The Packaging Society.

Full details can be found at www.starpack.uk.com/students.