European Pupils Apply Their Creativity in Green Week 2006 School Competition
Brussels - This year's Green Week will focus on biodiversity.
The annual environmental conference and exhibition will take
place in Brussels between 30 May and 2 June 2006. Part of
the event is the annual Green Week School Competition,
which encourages young people to learn about environmental
issues and express themselves artistically.
Younger children can enter the competition with drawings and
paintings illustrating their opinions about biodiversity while
older pupils are invited to submit short digital videos on
the same theme. The top three winners of each category will
be invited to Brussels for the awards ceremony during Green Week.
This sixth edition of the Green Week school competition builds
on the success of past years. Last year pupils created more
than 3 000 entries on the theme of climate change. This
time, the school competition will focus on biodiversity:
the year 2006 is of great significance since it represents
the half-way mark towards the EU's target of halting the
loss of biodiversity by 2010.
The competition is open to all schools in the EU, candidate
and EFTA countries.
Entries may only be submitted with the support of a school.
Entries must be scanned, or created digitally, and sent to
the Environment Directorate-General via the entry forms
on the Green Week School Competition website accessible
in 20 languages: www.greenweek2006.eun.org
Teachers are encouraged to make the competition part of the
class activity and the website will offer some ideas and
support. A network of expert teachers in the field of
environmental education from all over Europe will assist
the European Commission in carrying out the judging.
The Green Week 2006 School Competition is being run by
European Schoolnet (http://www.eun.org) on behalf of the
European Commission's Environment Directorate-General.
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