eTwinning Prizes 2012 – Rules

Eligibility

To join the competition, projects must have been awarded the European Quality Label in any year of the project’s lifespan. Only the partners of a project who have received the European Quality Label can apply and win a European Prize. All projects must demonstrate that they have been active in the 2010-2011 school year.

Projects can only apply once for the eTwinning Prizes; however, projects that have demonstrated a significant improvement over time can apply a second time under the National Support Services’ discretion.
 
The deadline for submissions is 30 November 2011.
 
 

Categories
 
A partner who has received a European Quality Label submits an entry for the project to one of the three age categories:

• Pupils age 4-11
• Pupils age 12-15
• Pupils age 16-19 

In addition to the age categories, there are also special categories:

• Spanish language (prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Education): this special category will reward a project which uses Spanish as its main communication language or focuses on the learning of Spanish in an innovative way.
• French language (prize sponsored by the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the International Federation of Teachers of French, eTwinning National Support Service in France): this special category will reward a project which uses French as its main communication language or focuses on the learning of French in an innovative way.
• Marie Skłodowska Curie Prize (prize sponsored by the National Support Services in France and Poland: This special category prize has been established to honour the life and work of Marie Skłodowska Curie, a pioneering woman scientist, winner of a Nobel prize on two occasions for both Physics and Chemistry. She is a shining example to all pupils today, especially girls, to what can be achieved in Science using slight resources and in extremely difficult circumstances.
  
  This prize will be award to the best project using any science or mathematical topic as the basis for their project work. It is also open to projects, in other disciplines, which have any aspect of the life and work of Marie Skłodowska Curie as their main topic of work.
   
  

All entries are submitted via the European eTwinning Portal, through your desktop.
 

Additional information
 

                 1. What is an entry?

• An entry is a European collaborative eTwinning project involving schools from different countries using ICT.
• The project must have a tangible outcome that gives evaluators a concrete idea of the project’s value, process and results. 

Each entry should be described as follows:

• Title of the project.
• Project Information containing the correct age category as well as links and documents to project outcomes.
• Descriptions about the various elements of your projects as defined by the criteria (max 150 words per criteria section).

IMPORTANT:

    ** Submitters must publish as much of their work as possible. Evaluators do not have access to restricted material, such as private TwinSpaces. **

Where applicable, the submission should also contain contextual information such as earlier awards or competitions entered or won, company funding, etc.
 

                 2. Legal and Ethical Issues
 
All entries must follow European agreements on copyright. Short quotations may be used if the source is clearly indicated. Pictures, film, audio and other multimedia may be used only if produced by the school or similar, or if the owner has explicitly permitted use, or if taken from free sources such as Clip Art.
 
Entries submitted to the eTwinning Prizes competition remain the property of the school/organisation or teacher. The European Commission and the eTwinning Central and National Support Services have full rights to make the material freely available for educational purposes on the Web, CD-ROM or other media from the date of submission until 31 December 2013.

Web Editor: Christina Crawley Published: 02.09.2008 Last changed: 20.10.2011