Green Week 2006 School Competition: European pupils apply their creativity to highlight biodiversity
To celebrate Green Week 2006 our Primary and Secondary schools are invited to work with us to enter this competition.
This year’s Green Week will focus on biodiversity. The annual
environmental conference and exhibition will take place in Brussels
between 30 May and 2 June 2006. Part of the event is the annual
Green Week School Competition, which encourages young people from
all EU Member States, candidate and EFTA countries to learn about
environmental issues and express themselves artistically.
Younger children can enter the competition with drawings and
paintings illustrating their opinions about biodiversity while
older pupils are invited to submit short digital videos on the same
theme. The top three winners of each category will be invited to
Brussels for the awards ceremony during Green Week. A selection of
the best entries in each category will be presented at the
conference. Deadline for entries is 25 March.
Categories
The competition is open to all schools in the EU, candidate and
EFTA countries. There will be two categories in the 2006 school
competition:
- Artwork - paintings and drawings: for individual pupils aged 5-10
- Digital videos: for teams of up to four students aged 11-16.
Entries and Judging
Entries may only be submitted with the support of a school. Entries
must be scanned, or created digitally, and sent to the Environment
Directorate-General via the entry forms on the Green Week School
Competition website accessible in 20 languages: www.greenweek2006.eun.org
Teachers are encouraged to make the competition part of the class activity and the website will offer some ideas and support. A network of expert teachers in the field of environmental education from all over Europe will assist the European Commission in carrying out the judging.
The deadline for both categories is 25 March 2006.
General information
The Green Week 2006 School Competition is being run by European
Schoolnet (http://www.eun.org
) on behalf of the European Commission's Environment
Directorate-General. Questions about the competition can be
addressed to Chris Coakley at the following email address: greenweek@eun.org