Posts Tagged ‘contest’

The Green Shots Award is an international contest for the creation and promotion of bottom-up innovative ideas on sustainable consumption. The contest is open to everyone interested in making the world more sustainable. The challenge is to create a creative idea (in a short story forma of 300 to 500 words) that can inspire people to change their everyday behavior towards sustainability. A jury of environmental experts will select the ten best stories. The winning ideas will be turned into animated videos and the author of the overall best idea will be awarded with a trip to the next Earth Summit Rio+20 in 2012. Stories should be submitted to greenshotsaward@cprac.org by 31 July 2010. Find out more.

27 nationalities, 1 message: end poverty! Something still needs to be done to fight poverty worldwide. If you are an EU citizen between 15 and 25 years old, join the fight against poverty and get your message out. The challenge is to create a song of maximum 5 minutes, which contains a message on the fight against poverty or development cooperation. This year there are two different prizes: one chosen by a jury of professionals and the other through online voting by Internet users. Participants can vote once every day until 31 October 2010. Winners will get a professional studio recording of their song and will be invited to perform in Brussels during the European Development Days in December 2010. Online submission deadline: 30 September 2010. More details about the contest’s terms and conditions, please visit the I Fight Poverty web site.

Do you see signs of economic, social, cultural or climate shifts in your neighbourhood? If the answer is yes, then CL!CK !T. This photo competition, organised by the European Journalism Centre, is about the changing world, which aims to create a mosaic of images from all corners of the globe to show how local communities are developing. You are allowed to submit up to entries before the deadline of 28 June 2010. Winners will receive a digital camera. Find out more.

In order to participate, you just have to upload an original, creative, funny picture featuring the European Health Insurance Card to the Social Europe Facebook page. The three participants with the most «I like» on their picture will receive two 3-day tickets to attend the Couleur Café festival between the 25 and 27 June (including transport from any European town and accommodation in Brussels). Preferably, you should use your own European Health Insurance Card for the photo. If you don’t have one, you can print out and use the image on this page. Here you can also find further details about the contest rules. Deadline: 4 June 2010

As you could read in an earlier post Design Den Haag organized a competition to design a new symbol for the European flag. Unfortunately the participation deadline has been expired already, so it’s no longer possible to participate in this competition. However it’s now possible to check out the 12 symbols (including a description) selected by the international jury. These symbols will be printes on flags of 3 x 2 meters and will be shown at the Hofvijver in The Hague, The Netherlands. Curious to see all designs (over 1400 from 63 countries)? Please, click here.

       Europe is a Masterpiece. Be the artist who will paint it!

40% from over 300 voters picked this picture as the winner of our Photo & Slogan contest. It was a very close call, because 38% of the votes, goes to the runner up picture of ‘Young people in old country’. The winning photo was taken by Teodora Koleva (23) from Bulgaria. 

About the picture…
The statue of the Bulgarian painter and writer Tzanko Lavrenov is situated in Teodora’s hometown Plovdiv in front of the Art Gallery. The Renaissance town of Old Plovdiv is a cultural center famous with its architectures, which in the past attracted and inspired many painters; that is what the statue represents.

Congratulations, Teodora!

Have you done any kind of European Volunteer Service abroad between January 2007 and February 2010 and are you between the age of 15 and 30 years? If so, you are invited to participate in the Scriptamanent contest. The challenge is to write about your EVS experiences. The winning work will receive a sum of 300 euros! For the competition rules and registration sheet, please visit this webpage. Deadline: 1 April 2010.

NANOYOU invites young people between the ages of 16 and 25 years to take pictures of the nanotechnologies applications they discover in their environment and upload them to the picture gallery. A jury composed of designers, engineers, architects and scientists will select the best three pictures that portrait how nanotechnologies are becoming part of our lives. The three winning photographers will get cash prizes and also be invited to NANOYOU’s public debate in Paris on April 8, 2010, to present and comment on their images and exchange opinions with the public. Submission deadline: 1 July 2010. Find out more.

Challenge:Future is an international open youth competition that demonstrates the youth creativity and their high potential. It’s a place where you can put your creativity to the test and collaborate with other students to prove yourself and win amazing awards. As a Challenge:Future member you can participate in the C:F Quick Challenges, the special StormIt Challenge or join the discussion in the Weekly Hot Topics on the Challenge:Future forum.

StormIt Challenge: Give me three days of Green sLOVEnia
Slovenian Tourism Board and Bank of Tourism Potentials in Slovenia invite Challenge:Future members between the ages of 15 to 30 to design a memorable trip in Slovenia and win up to 3000 EUR to make your dream trip come true. The proposed trip should be 3 days long and planned for two people to explore Slovenia. The focus of the trip is responsible travel and ecotourism. The StormIt Challenge ends at 6 May 2010.

Quick Challenge: What is the best advice you have ever received?
Send Challenge: Future the best advice you have ever received before the contest deadline of 4 April 2010.

The International Essay Contest for Young People is organized by The Goi Peace Foundation and UNESCO. The theme of the year’s Essay Contest is: “My role in creating a peaceful world”. What is your vision of a peaceful and harmonious world? What can you and the young people of the world do to realize that vision? Essays may be submitted by anyone up to 25 years old before the deadline of 30 June 2010. Further information? Please download the contest flyer!