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Tales of Transition Writing Contest
Tales of Transition Writing Contest
Description
Do you enjoy writing? Are you interested in post-communist transition? What are your thoughts on a free trip to Prague?
Transitions (TOL) is inviting students from across the globe to choose a topic relating to the social, political, economic, and cultural transition that has taken place in the last 25 years across the formerly communist countries of Europe and Eurasia.
You are free to choose your topic, your angle, your hook, your hypothesis, your research question, your style; as long as your content addresses post-communist transition in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, or Central Asia, we will process your submission.
A panel of judges, led by Transitions’ editor in chief will choose the top three undergraduate and top three graduate entries. All of the winning entries will be rolled out in our online magazine, which has an international audience of more than 25,000 monthly readers.
The first place undergraduate and first place graduate writers will win a FREE trip to Prague to attend our fall conference, 25 Years After: The Challenges of Building the Post-Communist Media and Communication Industries, from 20-22 November 2014.*
Submissions are due by 10 October 2014. Submit your entry here!
* Winner’s package includes the flight to Prague, accommodation in Prague, local transportation, breakfast, daily refreshments, and lunch. Airport transfers and dinners are not included. Prize packages are generously provided by the International Visegrad Fund, which is funding the contest as part of a series of activities and events centered around the 25-year, post-communist anniversary.
The Global Fund for Women Grants
Deadline: 15 December 2014
Open to: women-led groups outside the United States
Grant: between $5,000 and $30,000 per year for operation and project expenses
Description
Global Fund for Women invests in women’s groups that advance the human rights of women and girls. They value local expertise and believe that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change and continue to defend and expand hard-won gains in women’s rights by focusing on three critical areas:
Zero Violence
They fund and advocate for women’s and girls’ participation, empowerment, and peace building while challenging laws, policies, cultures and behavior that perpetuates discrimination, violence and abuse.
Economic & Political Empowerment
They support advocacy for economic and legal reform and women’s equal participation in local and national elections and economies, support democracy movements and efforts to secure land, labor and property rights.
Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights
A support is provided to campaigns, service delivery, advocacy and education to influence attitudes and achieve policy change that secures women’s and girls’ full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Eligibility
Please note that your group must meet all the following criteria to be eligible for a grant:
- It is based in a country outside the United States, priority is given to certain countries which you can find HERE;
- Its primary focus is advancing women’s equality and human rights, with these goals clearly reflected in its activities;
- It is a group of women working together. They do not accept requests from individuals;
- It is governed, directed, and led by women. Women must fill all or most of the leadership roles.
Grant
The Global Fund for Women provides grants ranging from $5,000 to $30,000 per year for operating and project expenses. First-time grant awards generally range from $5,000 to $13,000 per year.
Application
If you want to apply for the grant, you have to first register on the following website and there are application forms available in five languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, and Spanish .
Deadline for applications is 15 December 2014.
For more information, please visit the official website.
The ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition
Deadline: 8 October 2014
Open to: young people from around the world
Prize: up to 5,000 US dollars
Description
The ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) is looking for innovative ideas on how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can help smart cities to slow down or mitigate the effects of climate change. This might include novel technologies or combinations of existing technologies, services, and systems which would shape a smart city. It may focus on monitoring of or reporting on climate change, mitigating or adapting the impact of climate change on society, or on changes in technology and society that lead to a greener community.
Eligibility
This competition is open to all young people who are 18-30 years old and are coming from all 193 ITU’s member states.
Competition
This is a co-creation challenge, they are looking for any useful thoughts or information which might help us, as a community to develop the concept for a new startup. They will be running the challenge in parallel with an effort to crowdsource a youth contribution to the WHO Conference on Health and Climate Conference
Award
The best initial ideas will be presented at the WHO Conference on Health and Climate Change on August 27 – 29. At the end of the competition, two winners will join ITU Telecom World 2014 in Doha, Qatar, from December 7-10 to pitch their ideas in front of industry leaders and national governments, participate in workshops, benefit from a year of ongoing mentorship, and win up to $5 000 in seed funding.
Application
The application process is simple. Just register here and submit your idea.
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Call for papers for the International Symposium “Democracy, Participation, Activism”
Deadline: 10 October 2014Open to: students in the fields of sociology, philosophy, political science, history, anthropology, journalism, etc.
Venue: 12-14 November 2014 in Zagreb, Croatia
Description
Sociology Student’s Club “Diskrepancija” announced the opening of the “Call for Papers” for the upcoming International Symposium “Democracy, Participation, Activism” which will be held from 12th – 14th of November, 2014 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb. With the purpose of reflecting on responsibilities of the political subject, possible alternatives, and, above all, the role of activism, “Diskrepancija” invites sociology students and from other disciplines to submit their proposals.
The suggested topics may include (but are not limited to): liberalism and democracy, democracy as the end of history, crisis of democracy, tyranny of the majority, terrorism, civic activism, cyber-activism, spreading of knowledge as a form of activism, direct democracy, types of democracy, crisis of participation, responsible decision making, democracy and postmodernism. Aside from a presentations section, they will organize public fora and roundtable discussions in cooperation with professors and civil society associations.
Eligibility
The call for papers is open to students in the fields of sociology, philosophy, political science, history, anthropology, journalism, etc.
Costs
Participation at the symposium is free of charge. Accommodation for the presenters will be financially covered by the organizers.
Application
In order to apply you must fill out the application form and send an abstract (up to 250 words) by October 10th, 2014. Upon admission, you are to send the paper to be presented no later than 27 October 2014. Abstracts and papers (the language of which must be Croatian or English) are to be sent to the following e-mail address: simpozij.kssd@gmail.com.
For additional information please contact simpozij.kssd@gmail.com or visit the official call.
PEACEapp Competition 2014
Deadline: 15 October 2014
Open to: developers, technologists and peacebuilders around the world older than 13 years old
Awards: USD$5,000, mentorship, participation in Build Peace conference in Cyprus
Description
The United Nations Alliance of Civilisations, the United Nations Development Programme and Build Up have launched PEACEapp, a global competition to promote digital games and gamified apps as venues for cultural dialogue and conflict management.
The competition is open to three kinds of entries at all stages of development – from prototypes to fully developed:
- digital games & gamified apps developed purposefully for this competition;
- already existing digital games;
- creative re-purposing of existing digital games to meet the aim of PEACEapp.
Eligibility
The competition is open for all developers, technologists and peace-builders around the world who are older than 13 years old.
Awards
PEACEapp’s international jury will select five winning entries: three that are fully functioning and two that are in development. The three fully functioning games or apps will receive an award of USD$5,000 each. The two in development will receive mentorship from expert partners. In addition, one member of each award-winning team (completed or in development) will be invited to the Build Peace conference in April 2015 in Cyprus to share their product with conference participants.
Application
To submit a digital game or gamified app, entrants must complete the entry form in English and submit a video walkthrough or presentation of a working game / app, game / app alpha, beta prototype or implementation plan for using an existing game / app by 15 October 2014. Winners will be announced by November 30, 2014.
For further information, please visit the official website.
iAniMagic 2014, The Fourth Annual Contest of Animation Desk
Deadline: 20 October 2014
Open to: everyone
Awards: MacBook Air, Mac Mini 2.5G, iTunes Gift Card
Description
The goal of iAniMagic contest is to explore the beauty of hand-drawn animations. We encourage both professional and amateur animators to submit inspiring hand-drawn 30-second animations using Animation Desk. A panel of professional judges is set to evaluate the quality of each entry’s technique, creativity and storyline before winners are announced on November 5th.
We have prepared great prizes such as a MacBook Air, Mac Mini 2.5G, $500 iTunes gift card, iPad Mini and other prizes for you to grab. The winners will also get a chance to be featured in Kdan’s social network and our professional animation platform, AniZone.
Entering iAnimagic is absolutely Free. Read more about the official competition guidelines here: https://anizone.kdanmobile.com/contest/submission
Eligibility
Anyone regardless of nationality or age can join this contest.
Accept animations that made with Animation Desk (free version also available)
Awards
- #1 MacBook Air
- #2 Mac Mini 2.5G
- USD500 iTunes Gift Card
- iPad mini
- Adonit Stylus
The winners announcement will be made on 5th of November.
Application
Submit your work within Animation Desk v3.0.1 (which is estimated to be available on 3rd of September). Your animation must be at 30-second long.
For more information, please visit: https://anizone.kdanmobile.com/contest/submission
International essay contest after Rafal Lemkin “Genocide – the dark mark of humanity”
International essay contest after Rafal Lemkin “Genocide – the dark mark of humanity”
Contests 30.08.2014
Deadline: 30 November, 2014
Open to: all interested around the globe
Awards: 1st prize: € 300; 2nd prize: € 200; 3rd prize: € 100.
Description
The theme of the International Essay Contest is “Genocide – the dark mark of humanity”.
Essay may be written in the context of legal, political, historical, cultural, economic or any other issue connected to genocide.
We live in times of kaleidoscopic historical change when international law and settled after World War II world order once again find themselves threatened and become as the object of flagrant violations. The issue of responsibility of particular subjects of international relations and specific individuals for outright criminal actions that harm the civilized humanity is actual and raised once again.
In this regard, Ukraine based NGO “Society Initiatives Institute” seeks to eliminate embarrassing information void in the social, cultural and spiritual spheres, formed around the figure of the scientist, lawyer, expert on international law Raphael Lemkin, scholar who created and implemented in the broadest scientific and legal usage, the term “genocide.” A true cosmopolitan, Polish lawyer, with Jewish descent, born in territory of modern Belarus, who studied in Ukraine and Germany, before working in the universities in USA, he was writing about the genocide of Armenians, Assyrians (also known as Syriacs) and Jewish People.
It was his efforts which led the term to be entrenched in Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948. Also back in 1953, in his speech to the New York audience “The Soviet genocide in Ukraine”, Raphael Lemkin, was the first to recognize and speak about the crimes of the Stalinist Communist regime against the Ukrainian people, analyzing it in the context of international law.
In order to properly commemorate the name of Raphael Lemkin and to spread and continue the theoretical researches on the issues of genocides, Society Initiatives Institute is organizing this International Essay Contest.
Eligibility
The contest is open to all interested around the globe.
Awards
The winners will be selected by the Committee established by Society Initiatives Institute consisting of board members and scholars not more than two weeks after the deadline of essays submission.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners chosen by the Committee will be awarded with 300, 200 and 100 euro respectively.
The best essays will be published on web-pages of organization and its partners.
Application
Each contestant can submit only one essay developed in English, Ukrainian, Russian or Polish. It must reflect the contestant’s own writing and original thinking. The Committee will disqualify any essay where plagiarism is suspected.
An essay should be maximum 1000 words long in the following format: essay title / author’s name and contacts / school/university/affiliation / essay (introduction, main arguments, conclusions).
Essays and all questions should be sent to essay@sii.org.ua.
The deadline for submission of an essay is 30th of November, 2014.
For further information, please visit the official website.
5th Epicase Art&Illustration Competition
Deadline: 30 September 2014
Open to: artists from around the world
Prize: 1.000 US dollars for 6 months
Description
Epicase is devoted in presenting opportunities for qualified new artists to their talents through Epicase Art&Illustration Competition, emphasizing the celebration and embracing of art, found in our everyday lives. Epicase pledges to create a hub, accessible to all, that not only encourages talented artist to express their art through active interactions with its participants but also enriches the distinguishing links between persons-to-person, heart-to-heart and potentially art-to-culture, as well.
Eligibility
This competition is open to all artists from around the world.
Contest
The competitors will be able to compete in these categories:
- Illustration;
- Fine art
- Pictogram;
- Calligraphy;
- Art toy;
- Junk art;
- Typography;
- Graffiti;
- Webtoon.
Prize
Prizes for winning the Epicase Art&Illustration Competition :
- First Place winner will receive a total of USD 6,000.
- From the Second to the Fifth Place will receive USD 500 (each winner)
Application
In order to apply for the competition you need to download the application form and send your application to : epicase@myepicase.com
Additional information you can find here and also you can check how your work should look like here
The EcoCup Environmental Film Festival 2014
Deadline: 12 October 2014
Open to: filmmakers all over the world
Awards: Official prizes will be assigned by qualified juries, Prizes will be announced in November, 2014
Description
The 6th ECOCUP Green Documentary Film Festival will take place in Moscow in February 2015.ECOCUP Green Documentary Film Festival’s aim is to present and promote movies and videos that deals with issues and problems related to the environment.The EcoCup Environmental Film Festival in Russia features the best domestic and foreign environmental films for the Russian audience. Documentary films, long and short features and animations are accepted.
All films selected by the organizers will be shown as part of the EcoCup festival program, which will take place in Moscow and other cities in Russia in 2015.
- Registration is free of charge.
- The shipping costs of all material entered are to be covered by the entrants.
- Festival does not pay the screening fee.
- All films in foreign languages will be subtitled to Russian language or simultaneously translated.
- All Festival documents will be published in Russian.
Eligibility
Filmmakers all over the world can submit works to this international festival.
Awards
Official prizes will be assigned by qualified juries, each composed of at least three members, appointed by the Festival’s Direction. Prizes will be announced in November, 2014.
Application
- Entry form filled in each part and undersigned by the copyright owner. The entry form is available on-line on our website www.ecocup.ru
A copy of the entry form will be authomatically sent to the Festival’s e-mail. The submission of the entry-form constitutes the acceptance of all rules hereby described.
The films may be sent in the following ways:
- Passworded VIMEO link with ability to download the HD quality file
- Entrants may ship the DVD or BlueRay by post/courier.
Shipping address: Okskaya ul, 5/3 – 220. Moscow, Russia, 109117
All the dvd’s received will be kept in the Festival’s archive
- As soon as the film is selected for the programme, please, send the following materials to our e-mail address festival@ecocup.ru
- Promotional material, stills in high quality, posters, promo cards, press book, if available
- Dialogue list (preferably in .srt form in order to make Russian subtitles)
The deadline for all applications is 12 October 2014.