UNIDO and LibanPack will be organizing Arab Student StarPack competition addressed to university students in the Arab Countries. UNIDO is organizing Arab StarPack as part of its mission in ensuring an inclusive and sustainable development through industrial development by involving the youth and providing them with an invaluable opportunity to unleash their creativity and upgrade the packaging of their national products. - LibanPack has been organizing Lebanon Student StarPack, the first packaging contest in Lebanon and the Middle East since 2010. The competition falls within the packaging awareness side of LibanPack’ objective. Through Arab Student StarPack, LibanPack and UNIDO will be creating a bridge between the young generation of future graphic designers, industrial and food engineers and industrialists. The competition is accredited by WPO. Winners will automatically be qualified to participate in World Star competition organized by WPO, granting winning projects international visibility.

Since 1970, the World Packaging Organisation has been organizing WorldStar awards and providing awards to numerous packs from all around the world. The WorldStar Competition is one of the major events of the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) and is the pre-eminent global award in packaging. WordStar illustrates the continual advancement of the state of packaging design and technology and creates a living standard of international packaging excellence from which others may learn. Each year WPO is recognizing the best of the best in packaging innovations from across the globe. The objective of WPO in organising WorldStar is to increase awareness on the importance of packaging in having a better life and to recognize the innovation and efforts of brand owners, designers, students and branding agencies for creating packaging solutions of the future and in responding to new challenges and global trends such as sustainability, hygiene and other trends.

Building on the successful implementation of Arab Student StarPack, LibanPack and UNIDO are expanding StarPack by introducing a new industrial packaging competition, Arab StarPack Professional, for industries and professionals in the Arab region. The objective of Arab StarPack Professional is to increase awareness on current packaging trends from the aspects of marketing, functionality, and sustainability to enable Arab industries to keep up with global packaging trends and to ensure compliance with international standards and regulations in packaging and labeling. The ultimate objective of Arab StarPack Pro is to improve the competitiveness of Arab products on the international level. 

Arab StarPack Pro will recognize the best packaging design and innovations in consumer and industrial packaging on the Arab level bringing awareness of the important value that lies in well-designed packaging.