Deadline: 24 November 2010
Open to: EU citizens, no age restrictions
Award: 1000 € for winner
Design the cover of the Europa Diary!
This is an EU-wide competition to design a cover for the Europa Diary. Published annually, the Europa Diary is a school diary with information about the European Union (EU) and other topics relevant to young people, such as career opportunities, consumer protection and the environment. It is distributed free-of-charge to schools in all 27 EU Member States.
Prizes
- Winner: A €1000 cash prize will be awarded for the top design.
- Runners-up: The second through fifth place runners-up will receive a €250 cash prize.
How to Enter
If you have a Facebook account, you can submit your designs through our Facebook application. The application will store your name and email, but no other personal information about you will be recorded. When you submit a design, the application will automatically post an update on your Wall; all designs submitted through the application will be viewable by other Facebook users here.
If you prefer, you may alternatively submit your designs directly through our website. You will be asked to provide the following information when you create an account:
- your name
- your age
- your full contact details (including address, telephone and email)
- your nationality
Log-in to the submission site.
Whether you use Facebook or our website, you will be able to manage your submissions and submit as many designs as you wish until the deadline.
Selection Procedure
- Generation Europe Foundation will make a pre-selection from all submitted designs.
- This shortlist will be presented to a jury, composed of representatives of the European Commission and Generation Europe Foundation, as well as a professional designer and a student of design.
- The top designs selected by the jury will be put to a public vote in late November via the Facebook application. Selected designs which were submitted through our website will be added to the Facebook application using the Generation Europe Foundation account. Voting will only be open for a limited time.
- The European Commission reserves the right of final approval concerning the cover design.
Rules
- The competition is open only to citizens of the European Union; there are no age restrictions.
- The designs should not contain any text and should be suitable for distribution to young people between the ages of 16-18.
- The image and all graphical elements in it must be free of copyright.
- Each participant may submit multiple entries; all entries will be considered.
- Designs must conform to the technical specifications hereunder.
- Entrants must agree to the use that could be made of their entry, as specified below.
The top five winners will be contacted and asked to confirm in writing that they have respected the rules of the competition. If the winner is unreachable, does not provide this information within five working days or provides false information, he/she will be disqualified and the designer of the next highest-voted entry will take his/her place.
Data Protection
By participating in the cover competition you agree to submit the above requested personal data, which will be retained and secured by Generation Europe Foundation within the framework of the Europa Diary project. Personal data will be disclosed only for the specific purposes of this competition and will not be shared or disclosed with any other person or entity, except the European Commission. In particular, you agree that your name will appear on the inside back cover of the diary, should your entry be used as the cover of the 2011-2012 Europa Diary.
Contacts
This competition is organised by:
Generation Europe Foundation
123 Chaussée St. Pierre
B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
Dominique Chasseur: cover@generation-europe.eu
