Competitions
Shoot Nations - 21 May - 28 July 2010
Shoot Nations is an annual, global photography project including a competition, workshops and exhibitions on various continents. Each year focusses on a different global issue and the photographs produced are presented to the United Nations in New York. The theme for this year's competition is CITY LIVING.
Young Hands Together for Diversity International Art Competition
This competition is part of a worldwide youth education initiative on biodiversity to provide children and young people with useful information and help them participate in protecting, preserving and improving biodiversity in their communities. The theme for the competition is biodiversity and what it means to young people around the world.
The competition is open to children and young people between 6 to 20 years in three age categories: 6‐10 years, 11‐15 years and 16‐20 years. Last year there were 1,400 entries from 46 countries around the world. The competition is an activity of the Youth and United Nations Global Alliance (YUNGA) and The Green Wave for biodiversity.
Competition rules
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Only one entry is permitted per young person.
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Send your artwork to FAO via email or ordinary post.
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Send in your entry before the deadline. All entries must be received by 15 June 2010.
Send your entry to children‐youth@fao.org. The competition closes on 15 June 2010. Find out more >>
Your World Needs You!
Tetra Pak and the WWF-UK are looking for ideas to get everyone to think and buy renewable. For example: “Create a renewable App to help shoppers”. Be imaginative and you could win £1,000 for yourself and £25,000 to make your idea happen. http://www.renewableidea.co.uk/
An exciting new national skills contest from Young Chamber!
The SKILLS Factor™ is a new, free to enter national skills contest created by Young Chamber focusing on the skills needed by entrants into today's and tomorrow's labour market. http://www.youngchamber.com/skillsfactor/
Big Challenge has launched!
- The Big Challenge competition for 16-25 year olds is open for applications now.
- Be in with a chance of winning a share of £65 000 along with support to set up your own community project.
- Your project just needs to inspire other young people and involve volunteers so think big and get involved now!
Check out www.bigchallenge.org.uk for full details and the online application and if this doesn’t apply to you then please forward it to someone who might be interested.
You can find Big Challenge on YouTube >>
IMAGINE, INVOLVE, INSPIRE - IT’S YOUR TURN!
The deadline is 6th July 2010.
Big Challenge is a youth-led competition run by UnLtd in partnership with Changemakers and with funding from Vodafone and v. We are part of Live UnLtd www.liveunltd.com where you can find more opportunities like this for young people.
Could you be the UK's Landscape Photographer of the Year 2010?
With a top prize of £10,000 and a chance to see your work exhibited at London's National Theatre from November 2010, it is a great title to win.
Entry is now OPEN and can you can enter up to 15 pictures, so, if you haven't got your images ready yet, make the most of early Summer and visit your favourite UK places.
Enter now for chance to win £10,000 CLOSING DATE: 15th JULY 2010
Find out more at: http://www.take-a-view.co.uk/
Entry fees apply
The Volvo Adventure Competition
The Volvo Adventure - in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme - is an educational programme that rewards environmental activities and the decision-makers of the future. To enter, you form a team of 2 to 5 members aged 13 to 16 (at competition opening - July 1st 2009). Perform an environmental project in your local community and submit the project via our online submission tool before the competition deadline, January 31st 2011.
Projects are judged and the best projects are selected for an all expenses paid trip to Göteborg, Sweden where they can win: 1st place = 10,000 USD, 2nd = 6,000 USD and 3rd = 4,000 USD.
Get started - visit the website
All you need to do to get started is to go to the Volvo Adventure website. There you will find everything you need to register your project. You will receive a start-up package with instructions on how to proceed. We look forward to seeing your network’s projects! Good luck and remember – it could be your project in the 10th birthday final!
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