CLIMANTICA AWARDS FOR PROJECTS SUBMITTED TO THE FIRST CLIMANTICA CONFERENCE FOR STUDENTS
The Regional Ministry for the Environment and Sustainable Development announces the second edition of the Climantica Awards whose aim is to raise awareness of climate change among students. The prize consists of a five-day stage in an environmental education facility in Galicia, in which participants can also join on sports and leisure activities. This activity will be developed at the end of the school period in two different programmes: Secondary Education programme will take place from 23 to 27 June 2008, and Sixth Form programme will be held from 8 to 12 September 2008. Unlike the first edition of Climantica Awards held in November 2007, in this edition those projects that were submitted to the First Climantica Conference for students will be awarded the prizes and they will be published in the first issue of the magazine CLMNTK.
These Awards comprise the following categories:
1.-Literature: Essays, real or fiction stories, or poetry focused on an issue covered in the Climantica project..
1.1 Narrative
1.2 Poetry
1.3 Comics
2.-Multimedia: Formats submitted should have the following features: minimum resolution: 320 x 240, Video Format: mov, mp4, vob, dv, flv, avi, 3gp.
2.1 Short films telling a story based on a script. Short videos (see how to film with the mobile phone).
2.2 Presentations
2.3 Interviews, theatre performances or song recordings
3.-Visual Arts:
3.1 Photography: Each picture should include a reference to what the author intends to communicate with it.
3.2 Paintings
3.3 Pósters. The originals should be posted to Climantica’s contact address.
All projects submitted must be accompanied by the application form in which the author or authors (máximum 3 members in each team) describe what they wish to communicate with the project..
The projects should be sent to the following e-mail address: concursos@climantica.org. The deadline to submit projects is on 15 May 2008.
All those projects that meet the requirements will be uploaded in the website, in the Schools section and published in the students’ magazine CLMNTK. The students will be rewarded with a T-shirt or a jersey. For this purpose they should indicate the item they choose and the size.
YOU CAN ALSO TAKE PART IN CLIMANTICA AUTHORS CONFERENCE
Those projects selected to be published in the students’magazine CLMNTK will be presented in the First Climantica Conference for Students. The awards will be announced in the course of this conference that will be held on the 21 June at the Conference Centre, in Santiago de Compostela.
There will be 10 prizes in each category for both Secondary education and Sixth-Form students, so that 30 students will enjoy the stage in June and 30 students in September. If the projects submitted to any particular category do not meet the minimum quality requirements to award the 10 prizes, the number of prizes for the other categories could be increased, provided that their quality is good enough. Prizes could not be awarded if the jury considers that there are not enough quality projects to award 30 prizes for secondary education students and 30 prizes for Sixth-Form students.
To be eligible, projects will be assessed according to the following criteria:TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
If you come across difficulties in producing your project, please do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail: concursos@climantica.org
