Citizen Act Competition

Deadline: 5 December 2010
Open to: students at a business school, IT school, university or engineering school
Prizes: 1st prize – a trip worth €5,000
Dates: final announcement 14 March 2011

The purpose of this game is to organise an interactive human encounter enabling students from engineering and business study courses in higher education establishments and universities throughout the world to engage with Société Générale in its thought processes in relation to problems facing society and the environment.

The challenge

To design and implement a completely new project linked to CSR and take part in an overall reflection aimed at transforming the banking of tomorrow.

Citizen Act Game

It is free to enter, no purchase is necessary, and it is open exclusively to students signed on at a higher education engineering or business study establishment or university, worldwide, excluding Société Générale personnel (though including apprentices, interns and International Voluntary Enterprise workers), their spouses and families: direct ascendants and descendants or other relatives whether living under the same roof or not.

Any student having already taken part in a previous edition of CITIZEN ACT is not authorised to register a second time. Any registration completed by a student having already taken part in CITIZEN ACT will be null and void. “Participation” is understood as being the selection of a project for the Opening Meeting.

Terms and Conditions

Phase One: Team formation and registering to take part

To take part, students must log onto www.citizenact.com and register in teams of 3 students from the same school or university who are all enrolled in higher education. This must be done between the 20^th of September 2010 and the 5^th of December 2010 by midnight.

Phase Two: Selection of 45 teams to take part in CITIZEN ACT

A panel made up of Société Générale staff will meet to select 45 teams from those having completed registration satisfactorily and having sent in their synopsis. The selected teams will be informed individually by e-mail sent to the address given on the entry form on the 12^th of December 2010. The list of teams selected will be published on this website on Monday the 3^rd of January 2011. Société Générale will pay for the costs of conveyance by public transport in accordance with the conditions defined in article 6 of the present document – Refunding of travel costs to and from Paris.

Phase Three: Animation of Wikiblogs and Citizen Act

The teams selected will be tasked with animating and promoting a Wikiblog in their school or university covering a topic of their choice relevant to Corporate and Social Responsibility from the 2^nd of February 2011 to the 6^th of March 2011 midnight GMT (Paris time), in conjunction with a Société Générale staff member called a Coach. The 10 teams selected to go through to the CITIZEN ACT Final Contest will be announced on the 14^th of March 2011.

Phase Four: Final Contest

Results will be announced at Société Générale’s head office on the 21^st of April 2011. The 10 selected teams will be invited. Société Générale will pay for the costs of conveyance by public transport in accordance with the conditions defined in article 6 of the present document – Refunding of travel costs to and from Paris. Following the 10 finalist project presentations at the Citizen Act Final Contest, 4 winning teams will be selected.