Samsung Engineering in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme is proud to launch 'The 8th
Eco-generation Environmental Essay Competition,' inviting young people
all over the world to raise awareness on the UN's new initiative '2015
time for global action for people and planet'.
As
many of you know, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued his Synthesis
Report, which presented the vision for the post-2015 sustainable
development agenda, in December 2014. Drawing from the experience of two
decades of development practice and from input gathered through an
open and inclusive process, the report, The Road to Dignity by 2030,
charts a road map to achieve dignity in the next 15 years.
On
2 August 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations reached
agreement on the outcome document that will constitute the new
sustainable development agenda that will be adopted this September by
world leaders at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York. They
agreed to an ambitious agenda that features 17 new sustainable
development goals that aim to end poverty and promote prosperity and
people's well-being while protecting the environment by 2030.
UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the agreement, saying it
"encompasses a universal, transformative and integrated agenda that
heralds an historic turning point for our world."
He
also said "This is the People's Agenda, a plan of action for ending
poverty in all its dimensions, irreversibly, everywhere, and leaving no
one behind. It seeks to ensure peace and prosperity, and forge
partnerships with people and the planet at the core. The integrated,
interlinked and indivisible 17 Sustainable Development Goals are the
people's goals and demonstrate the scale, universality and ambition of
this new Agenda."
"2015 can and must be the time for global action".
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/
Through
this essay competition, we would like to provide children and youth a
chance to set their action plan for changing their lifestyle affecting
our planet, which is the most challenging threat for humans. It also
aims to collect inspiring and creative ideas from young people by
requiring them to think about what young people can do for our planet,
crossing 'Online' and 'Offline'.
Competition details
• Eligibility: Tunza Eco-generation members aged between 13 and 24 (As of October 12)
• Theme: 2015 Time for Global Action for People and Planet - What Young People can do for the People and the Planet at a Local Level
• Schedule - Submission deadline: October 12th, 2015 (midnight, GMT 0)
- Result announcement: 3rd week of November, 2015
- Result announcement: 3rd week of November, 2015
• Submission: Tunza Eco-generation website/Egen Event/Monthly Event
• Prize details
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Prizes
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Persons
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Prize includes
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UNEP Prize
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1
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Certificate & Samsung Tab S
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Samsung Engineering Prize
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1
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Certificate & Samsung Tab A
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Eco-generation Prize
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3
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Certificate & Samsung 1TB Portable USB
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Honorable Mentions
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20
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Certificate & Eco-generation souvenirs
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Guideline
• No entry fee is required.
• Samsung
Engineering reserves First Serial Rights on all submissions. All other
rights to the essay remain the property of the author.
• All entries must be original works, in English. Plagiarism and off topics will result in disqualification.
• Entries may not have been previously published in professional media.
• Entries must be from 600 to 800 words in length.
• Entrants must first register at Tunza.eco-generation.org in order to submit their essay online.
• All
entries must be double spaced in 11pt, with numbered pages in one of
the following formats. All other formats will be disqualified.
- MS Word
- Word Perfect
• The
personal information in the entry must be correct. If any competition
winner is not reachable due to wrong information (contact number,
address and etc.), their prize will be canceled and automatically given
to the next place applicant.
• Each entrant may submit only one essay.
• All entries are final. No revisions are accepted.
• The decisions of the judges are final and are entirely their own and in no part represents the opinion of Samsung Engineering.
• At the discretion of the judges, all well written essays may be published on the Website.
