Solar Decathlon is an international competition and presents an opportunity for Universities for around the world to get together and compete in areas of design, building and exploit energy efficient house. Houses use solar energy as the only energy source and are equipped with all the technologies that provide maximum energy efficiency.

Solar Decathlon Middle East offers students a unique opportunity for learning, practical use of theoretical knowledge, cooperating with different companies and their products, and all of that realization of the specific house.  Projects are being developed through multidisciplinary teams giving students an opportunity to learn not only about technical problems, but about team work as well, communication skills and both sustainable lifestyle and socio-economic matters in order to assure viability of their own design. In the first stage of the competition, task for all the teams is to design an energy efficient house according to certain references. During the final phase of the competition, teams build the houses that are publicly available, while at the same time houses are being ranked based on ten competition categories which gave this competition name Decathlon.