Samsung Engineering/UN 11th Eco-Generation Environmental Essay Competition – Apply!
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Samsung Engineering jointly with UN
Environment would like to launch ‘The 11thEco-generation
Environmental Essay Competition’ inviting the youth all over the world to raise
awareness on the theme of the upcoming World Environment Day – Beat Plastic
Pollution.
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11th Eco-generation Environmental Essay Competition |
As many of you know, World
Environment Day is the United Nations’ flagship day for encouraging worldwide
awareness and action for the environment. Over the years, it has grown to be
one of the largest global platforms for public outreach celebrated by over a
million of people.
‘Beat Plastic Pollution’, the theme
for World Environment Day 2018, is a call to action for all of us to come
together to combat one of the great environmental challenges of our time.
Chosen by this year’s host, India, the theme of World Environment Day 2018
invites us all to consider how we can make changes in our everyday lives to
reduce the heavy burden of plastic pollution on our natural places, our
wildlife – and our own health.
While plastic has many valuable
uses, we have become over reliant on single-use or disposable plastic – with
severe environmental consequences. Around the world, 1 million plastic drinking
bottles are purchased every minute. 500 billion disposable plastic bags are
used worldwide every year. In total, 50 per cent of the plastic we use is
single use.
Nearly one third of the plastic
packaging we use escapes collection systems, which means that it ends up
clogging our city streets and polluting our natural environment. Every year, up
to 13 million tons of plastic leak into our oceans, where it smoothers coral
reefs and threatens vulnerable marine wildlife. The plastic that ends up in the
oceans can circle the Earth four times in a single year, and it can persist for
up to 1,000 years before it fully disintegrates.
To commemorate WED and its annual
theme, Eco-generation would like to celebrate the bigger and better WED than
ever and to call on Tunza Eco-generation members around the world to show their
will to act on ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ for our future generations by writing
an essay.
It also aims to collect inspiring
and creative ideas on how and why we should stop using plastics and at least
reuse and refuse plastics by requiring them to think about various.
Competition details:
Eligibility:
Tunza Eco-generation members aged between 14 and 24.
Theme: Beat Plastic Pollution, If
you can’t reuse it, refuse it Inspiring and creative ideas on how and why we
should reuse and refuse it.
Schedule:
- Submission deadline: September 2nd,
2018
- Result announcement: November, 2018 (to be decided)
Write ‘your motivation to join the
competition within 50 words’ in the Content box and attach your essay file (MS
word) in the attachments column and click Submit button.
Prize details:
Prizes
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Persons
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Prize includes
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UN Environment Prize
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1
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e-Certificate & Samsung Tab S2
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Samsung Engineering Prize
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1
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e-Certificate & Samsung Tab A
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Eco-generation Prize
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3
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e-Certificate & Samsung
Portable memory
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Honorable Mentions
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20
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e-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 topic 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.) prize will be canceled and
automatically be 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.
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