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CHALLENGE WORKSHOPS

Regulations for participation in the competition

2025 Workshop Challenge Regulations

The “Challenge Workshops” Competition is a dynamic workshop game, in which the functioning of a workshop is simulated through different participatory panels, with the team that accumulates the most points throughout the game being the winner.

1 - “Challenge Oficinas” is a technique and management competition organized in Portugal by Jornal das Oficinas in partnership with T Academy.

2 - The “Challenge Workshops” is composed of a jury made up of members of the T Academy. The evaluation of competing workshops is objective and will be based on the performance of the exercises and the time spent on their execution.

3 - The “Challenge Workshops” takes place according to the calendar presented. The organization reserves the right to change the dates scheduled for decisions, if circumstances of force majeure so require. Any changes to the calendar will be communicated in a timely manner to all team leaders via electronic means and at the addresses indicated by them when registering.

4 - In the competition, all registered teams are identified by proper names assigned by the workshops themselves.

5 - To participate in the “Challenge Workshops”, workshops must assemble a team and register for the Competition.

6 - Each “Challenge Workshops” team will be made up of three members.

7 - Prizes will be offered to all teams present in the Final.

8th - Upon registration, each team declares that they are aware of the content of these regulations, expressly acknowledging that all decisions regarding the interpretation and application of these regulations are the exclusive responsibility of the Jury.

9 - The “Challenge Workshops” consists of 3 PHASES:

1. PHASE – SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE

 Taking place between February 1st and March 22nd, 2025

This year the competition is dedicated to networked workshops, therefore only registrations from workshops that are part of networks present in the national market will be accepted.

Workshops that wish to participate in the “Challenge Workshops” competition must complete the self-assessment questionnaire, which is sent by email after registration confirmation.

In the first phase, the best workshops from each network will be selected.

2ND PHASE – ONLINE CHALLENGE

Taking place between March 23rd and April 28th 2025

The workshops in each network that achieved the best score in the "self-assessment" questionnaire in the 1st phase will receive access to the "Online Challenge" in the 2nd phase. The answers to this challenge will qualify one team from each network for the Competition final.

A maximum of 10 teams will qualify for the competition final (one from each network).

3rd PHASE – END OF THE COMPETITION

Happening on May 17, 2025

In the Final of the “Challenge Workshops” Competition, which takes place at the Pro4Matic Car Service facilities in Montemor-o-Velho, the finalist teams will compete in a dynamic Workshop Game (inter-networks) in which the operation of a workshop is simulated through different participatory panels, with the team that accumulates the most points throughout the game being the winner.

Registration for the Challenge Workshops is free. All workshops that are part of a Workshop Network can participate.

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