ICT Submission of projects at Global Junior Challenge
George Lessard
media at web.net
Fri Apr 9 06:46:24 CEST 2004
he Global Junior Challenge is a global award
promoted by the Digital Youth Consortium ,
<http://www.gioventudigitale.net/en/index.asp>a
non-profit organization founded by the
Municipality of Rome and six major ICT companies.
The intention of the award, dedicated to young
people and to schools, is to identify and reward
best practices on the use of new technologies in
education and training of youngsters.
Rules
http://www.gjc.it/2004/en/regolamento.asp
Which type of projects?
All projects that are using ICT for education and
training of young people .....
The deadline to submit the projects is the 30 th of June 2004.
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Global Junior Challenge - Latest Text for Promotion
The Global Junior Challenge is the world's
premier contest of projects pioneering the use of
information and communication technologies (ICTs)
in education and training. The contest is the
"tip of the iceberg" of a range of activities
aimed at celebrating ICT-based educational
innovation and promoting co-operation, shared
learning, and e-inclusion in the build up
of a knowledge society for all. Working together
for a better world, for equal opportunities and
against the digital divide is central to spirit
of the Global Junior Challenge and, for this
reason, we invite you to submit your experience
to the contest and join the activities of this
year's edition.
Submission of projects
You can enter the competition by filling the online form available at
www.gjc.it
Alternatively you can print the form, fill it in
and send it by fax or postal mail to:
Consorzio Gioventu Digitale
Via Umbria 7, 00187 Rome, Italy.
FAX: +39 06 42000442
Deadline for submission of projects is 30th June 2004
Prizes
The winners of the Global Junior Challenge are
awarded a statue of the Etruscan wolf and Romulo
and Remo, the prestigious symbol of the
foundation of the City of Rome. The GJC 2002
awarded a total 13 wolves.
In addition, all finalists from developing
countries are eligible to compete for cash
prizes, or all-cost-paid participation in a
prestigious activity aimed at helping the
development and sustainability of their projects.
The GJC 2002 awarded seven projects with an
all-cost paid
participation to a two-week tailored course on
innovation and entrepreneurship at Santa Clara
University, California. See details at
http://www.e-inclusionsite.org/eng/finalists.asp
For this GJC 2004 edition, the organizers are
happy to announce that the sum of Euro 30,000
is available to be awarded to projects from
developing countries selected by the
international jury.
Finally, the President of Italy, Carlo Azeglio
Ciampi has kindly donated three silver cups to be
awarded to the three best projects from among the
Italian schools participating at the competition
The prizes to all winners will be given out
during the GJC Ceremony that
will take place at the historical Campidoglio
City Hall in the heart of Rome, with the
participation of the President of Italy, the
Mayor of Rome and other personalities. The date
of the Ceremony is 19th November 2004.
The Tip of the Iceberg - A week to remember in
Rome The GJC Ceremony is only the culmination of
a range of activities that will run between 15th
and 19th November 2004 in Rome. The aim is to
give participants an exciting, fruitful and
valuable experience of
celebration, networking, and future co-operation
in the challenge of building societies
where ICT-based education for all is a dream transformed into reality.
Among the activities taking place during the four days are:
Financial Forum where projects can meet and
obtain advice from international experts on
potential funding sources and ways to pursue
them. School Twinning where schools and networks
of schools from developing and developed
countries come together to explore and establish
co-operation to help in the battle against the
digital divide. Roman schools will
organize a cultural event and party with
demonstrations of cultural expressions from
the many different countries participating in the
twinning. Open seminars where a set of
international panellists discusses with the
audience topics of major importance to the
challenge of ICT-based education for all.
Special event dedicated to projects and
activities making innovative use of ICTs to
advance equal opportunities for men and women
Presentation of web environment aimed at
supporting concrete ICT-based innovation
processes in schools and educational system
through structured content, activities and
innovators' community Exhibition of finalist
projects and twinning schools in a large space
containing stands and space for scheduled
presentations by the projects as well as for free
activities by schools' youngsters. 5000
youngsters attended the GJC exhibition of 2002.
Your school participation
The Global Junior Challenge is much more than the
largest international contest of projects on ICT
and education and training in the information
society. It is the entry to an rich platform of
activities of networking, shared learning,
leading-edge knowledge about educational changes
in the 21st century, exchanges of best-practices
among international e-learning experiences and
much more. When you enter the GJC competition you
are actually entering this world of
opportunities and participation in the processes
that are today changing education in schools,
training organizations, regions and countries
through new technology. You are also entering a
community of innovators contributing ideas and
activities helping to build a better world
through better education for all.
Further information
To learn more about all the activities related to
the Global Junior Challenge ceremony you can:
. visit the website of Global Junior Challenge at
http://www.gjc.it
. send an email to info at gjc.it.
. send a fax to +39 06 42000 442
. telephone to +39 06 420 14 109
Contact person: Silvia Celani
mailto:silvia at gjc.it
Global Junior Challenge Project Manager
The Global Junior Challenge 2004
If the Global Junior Challenge 2002 was a
global award promoted by the Digital Youth
Consortium, a no profit organization founded by
the Municipality of Rome with six main ICT
companies, and if the theme of the Global Junior
Challenge 2002 was the fight against the Digital
Divide and the development of the spirit of
international solidarity through an effort to
twin ten Italian schools with schools from poor
countries in the world. The Global Junior
Challenge 2004 will be even more beautiful.
The Global Junior Challenge 2004 is rich of surprises and news.
The first big surprise is the introduction
of a new category: Women and Equal Opportunities .
The projects of this category will be aimed
at realising Equal Opportunities between women
and men in every sphere of their professional
life.
The other two main topics of the Global
Junior Challenge 2004 are: the fight against the
Digital Divide and the innovative use of new
technologies in education and training of
youngsters.
Moreover, in the Global Junior Challenge
2004 we will find the twinning schools!!!!!!
The categories of the projects in this edition will be:
Projects for users up to 10 years old
Projects for users up to 15 years old
Projects for users up to 18 years old
Projects for users up to 29 years old
Projects using ICT to help youth to find a job can join a dedicated category
Women & equal opportunities . The projects of
this category will be aimed at realising equal
opportunities between men and women in every
sphere of their professional life, thanks to an
innovative use of ICT.
It's possible to download the brochure of
the Global Junior Challenge 2004.
http://www.gjc.it/2004/en/GJC%202004%20ING.pdf
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