UNESCO’s International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) is running a photo contest on the theme of The Changing Face of the Earth, to raise awareness among youth of the state of the planet. There are several cameras and 40 book prizes to be won. Entries close on 30 June 2008.Contestants may enter in either of the categories:
- 15-20 year olds and
- contestants aged 21 years and over.
Each winning contestant will receive a copy of two UNESCO books:
Explaining the Earth and
The Changing Face of the Earth. In addition, the best entries in each category will win a camera. The names of the winning contestants will be announced in the October 2008 issue of
A World of Science and on UNESCO’s science portal.
Photos can be entered in any of ten categories:
- Soil – Earth's living skin, Planet Earth in our hands
- Groundwater – towards sustainable use
- Hazards – minimizing risk, maximizing awards
- Earth and health – building a safer environment
- Climate change – the ‘stone tape’
- Resource issues – towards sustainable use
- Megacities – going deeper, building safer
- Deep Earth – from crust to core
- Ocean – abyss of time
- Earth and life – the origins of diversity
Read more about the contest.
To participate in the 11th edition of the Contest people up to 25 years of age can submit their essays in one of the following categories: children (ages up to 14) and youth (ages 15 - 25). Essays must be 800 words or less in English, French, Spanish or German; or 1600 characters or less in Japanese, typed or printed. They must have a cover page indicating the category (children or youth), the title of the essay, the name of the participant and their personal information (mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, nationality, age as of June 2010, sex, school name (if any) and word count). Essays must be original and unpublished and they must be written by one person.
