Abstract: The international PBL education concept is problem-oriented, student-centered, puts learning in a complex and meaningful problem situation, and solves problems around the design theme in the form of group cooperation through learners' independent exploration. Starting from the review of international PBL education concept, this paper expounds the development process of PBL education concept in various countries; Analyze the importance, inevitability, innovation and foresight of the integration of the international PBL educational concept and the art design competition; This paper studies and explores the teaching reform of art design competition based on the international PBL educational concept from four aspects: the orientation of teaching reform, the content of teaching reform, the innovation of art design, and the reform of art innovation competition, in order to provide new ideas for art design education.

Key words: PBL, Internationalization, Innovation, Design competition, Reform in education, Personnel training