UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2021/2 International Photo Contest

Competition Grant / Award in Art and Humanities , in Education and Languages
  • Apply Before : April 30, 2021

Opportunity Details

  • Opportunity ID 144477
  • Degree Non Degree Program/Certificate
  • Language Requirement Not Required
  • No. of Opportunity 3
  • Opportunity Type : Fully Funded
  • Gender MaleFemale
  • Language of Instruction English
  • Application Fee Required No
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Opportunity Description

About the contest

Application is now invited for UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2021-22 photo contest. The 2021-22 GEM Report of UNESCO due in December 2021 will focus on “non-state actors in education” and their role in and perception of full public education delivery. GEM every year holds this photo competition to attract new ideas and images to supplement its ground-breaking findings and analysis. Therefore, if you are interested, take part to win a prize of 500 USD.

Details

Deadline: 30 April 2021, 23.59 (Paris time)

Organizer: UNESCO-GEM Report

Number of winners: 3

Announcement of winning photos: July 2021

Prizes

  • The best photo will revive $500 and the two runner-ups will receive 200 each.

Other benefits

  • Winning photos will feature in the 2021/2 Global Education Monitoring Report and related communications products and other outreach materials credited with the winner’s name.

Who can participate?

  • Anyone from any country is eligible to participate in the contest.
  • Photographers may submit multiple entries but the maximum number of entries is 3 per photographer.
  • UNESCO is inviting submissions of original photographs that demonstrate the many ways in which non-state actors are involved in:
  • Education systems and how they provide education (private, NGO, religious or community schooling);
  • Providing complementary services (school meals, technology, undertaking assessments, supplementary private tutoring);
  • Influencing education system functioning and financing (equity implications; influence over national policies; additional resource mobilization prospects);
  • And, the state’s role in the process (regulatory frameworks, accountability mechanisms).
  • Photos could display some of the most recent developments in the non-state actors’ landscape.

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Evaluation criteria

Photos will be chosen according to message clearness, composition, the personification of the subject, and overall presentation.

How to apply?

To apply, please send your photo(s) in electronic format by following the following instructions:

  1. Download the Grant of Rights form
  2. Go to the application LINK.
  3. Enter your name and email
  4. Upload your .zip file
  5. Enter recipient email: gemreport@unesco.org
  6. Enter message to the recipient: “2021 Photo Contest”. Photos will not be accepted without the description text.
  7. Finally, click the [Send] button.

Application Link

What should your submission include?

  • The Grant of Rights form.
  • You must also get and provide UNESCO with written permission from all the people in your photos to allow them to be used by UNESCO.
  • In the event the people in your photos are below 18, you must also acquire written permission from their parents or guardians.
  • Each entry should have a description text that includes a short artist biography and a caption indicating where and when the photo was taken, a relevant quote if applicable, and the names of any people in your photo(s) as well as the credit you would prefer to be used if your photo is chosen (likely format Credit: YOUR NAME/UNESCO/GEM Report).

For more information about the competition as well as the GEM report, click the 2021 Photo Contest.

View the contest terms and conditions.

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