Join Now! ‘Show Me Inclusion’ contest for Youths

Deadline- 16th September 2012

Countries/Region- All Countries

“END EXCLUSION- Let’s Enable the Millennium Development Goals” is a three year awareness raising project funded by the European Union which organises “Show Me Inclusion” contest so that idea can show people with disabilities are the same as other people.

Through this project persons with disabilities are included in programmes designed to reduce poverty, which is often not the case.

It is important to work towards more inclusive societies and think young people are the main driving force of change. That’s why this project gives them the opportunity to stand up both for inclusion and for the eradication of poverty.

Eligibility-

• Only the ideas given in through the Show me Inclusion submission system will be accepted and eligible.
• Group submissions are also allowed.
• Applicant can submit more than one idea.
• Please make sure applicant fill in all the information in the submission form, including their contact details and a written description of the idea. This will ensure their idea is also accessible for blind people.
• Submissions are accepted in these languages: English, German, Dutch, Slovak and Czech. Any entry in another language should be translated into English in the description box of the submission form.
• Submissions can be made in the following forms: video, audio, sketchbook, photo book, or story book. The planned spot should be no longer than 2 minutes.
• Only the following formats will be accepted: jpg, png, gif, mpeg4, avi, wmv, mov, flv, mp3, wav, wma, pdf, ppt, pptx, doc, docx.
• Make sure the file is smaller than 500MB or it will be rejected.

The idea should relate to one of the following topics:

1. The inclusion of persons with disabilities in everyday life/importance of inclusion
2. The potential of persons with disabilities
3. The rights of persons with disabilities
4. The inclusion of persons with disabilities in the fight to end poverty.

• All submissions should be respectful and in line with the Youtube Community guidelines  (even if you are not submitting a video-entry). Amongst other things, the content should not be hurtful or sexually explicit and should not show bad stuff, real life violence, invasion of privacy or gross images. Hate speech (in which one group in society is attacked) is not permitted.
• All submissions should be suitable to be viewed by an audience of 12 years old and over.
• The winning spot will be shown all over the world! That’s why submissions should be understandable by someone sitting in Prague, Buenos Aires, Ouagadougou or Shanghai. Avoid cultural references that will only be understood in their country. Dialogue/text is allowed, but this should be kept to a minimum and written in the description box of the submission form.
• End Exclusion gets full rights to the entries applicant submit: we can do whatever they want to the videos they send us including adding our logo to them.

Important points regarding Copyright, Ownership and Responsibility-

• Applicant must possess the copyright of the material they are using: this means applicant have created it by themselves or have an official permission to use it. Applicants submission should be their own, original work.
• a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the content, including adding the End Exclusion logo to it.

For  more information, visit this link

Source Link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/cambodia/join-show-inclusion-contest-youths/#ixzz23PDjVbJz