Challenge:Future competition is fusing innovative thinking, uncompromised youth creativity, and diverse knowledge of participants of various backgrounds, cultures, and lifestyles. Applying the open community principles, the contestants are challenged to develop solutions, receive feedback, be publicly recognized and rewarded.
To COMPETE:
1.Register as a member and fill out your profile at the Challenge:Future online platform at any time before March 24, 2011 at 10:00 CET.
2.Register as a competitor between February 23, 2011, 10:00 CET and March 24, 2011 at 10:00 CET by clicking on ‘compete now’ button on the competition page.
3.Browse through full challenge brief, entry details, and resources, and let your imagination fly free.
4.Join or create a team:
- You can only be in one team.
- You can tag yourself as interested so that other teams can invite you to join them.
- You can create a team yourself and invite other members from your school, youth organization, or anyone worldwide to join you.
- You can invite a mentor from the available mentor list to help you with your idea, or invite somebody not yet engaged to register as a Challenge:Future mentor (see Mentor Eligibility above).
- The team formation must finish by March 24, 2011 at 10:00 CET; teams will be formally “closed” at that moment. A complete team has to have a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 3 members, at least one of them being a student. No changes to the teams will be allowed after that date.
- All registered members of Challenge:Future community who do not belong to any team by March 24, 2011 will have a chance to participate in a number of activities, including voting, quick challenges, discussions, provide feedback to other’ solutions, join action teams and local Challenge:Future chapters, etc – and get rewarded with ‘sparks.’ Earn the largest number of sparks – and you get to go to the Challenge:Future Summit 2012 with all expenses paid!
5.When in a team, fill out the team profile, collaborate in the project room, select a mentor, and start developing your submission as the time to the next deadline is very short.
6.Starting from
March 24, 2011 at 18:00 CET till
March 30, 2011 at 18:00 CET, you will be able to make your
submission. Please note that only the team creator can submit your idea via the submission form, which will appear in the team project room and be only visible to him/her.
Crucial: in the First Round, the community will only see your submission’s title and a PowerPoint presentation, so be as creative as possible with it! The judges, however, will see and rate the entire submission your team will prepare, including title, abstract, a PowerPoint presentation, and an extended description. So don’t wait till the last day, you might be too late!
7.When idea is submitted, the community can post comments and, if you wish, you can revise your idea upon the received comments until the voting starts. In other words, you have time between
March 24, 2011 18:00 CET and
March 30, 2011 18:00 CET to
ubmit, revise, and re-submit your final idea. You can mark the comments as helpful – that means that both you and the one that gave you the helpful comment gains additional sparks.
8.On
March 31, 2011 at 10:00 CET the
voting starts: you can vote for ideas of other teams, check your votes, and enjoy reading the comments. Of course, you and your teammates
will not be able to vote for your own idea. The voting
ends on April 14, 2011 at 10:00 CET. By being an active community voter and providing feedback to other teams, you can also gain lots of extra sparks.
9.On
April 20, 2011 at 18:00 CET, the semi-finalists are announced. All teams that are ranked in the top 10% by the community vote OR receive the total score of 51 and higher (out of 100 possible) by expert judges will advance to the Semi-Finals with no limit as to how many teams can proceed.
10.On
April 21, 2011 at 18:00 CET, detailed submission requirements and judging criteria for the semi-finals are announced, and the semi-finalists can start working on the next phase of the competition to prepare a more detailed submission accompanied by a maximum 3-minute video to submit between
June 1, 2011 at 18:00 CET and
June 15, 2011 at 18:00 CET.
11.From
June 21, 2011 18:00 CET to July 21, 2011 18:00 CET, the community voting and judges evaluation of the semi-final submissions are taking place. The community votes will contribute 20% to the total grade of each team, and 80% will be provided by the scores of expert judges.
12.On
August 1, 2011 at 18:00 CET, detailed submission requirements and judging criteria for the finals are announced, the 30 finalist teams are announced, and can start working on the Final phase of the competition.
Attention: we will also announce ONE WINNER, the author of the best, the most amazing, and inspiring video who will have a chance to travel to Hollywood for an experience of a lifetime!
13.On
November 15, 2011 at 18:00 CET all final submissions are due. Your full submission and a maximum 3-minute video (developed further from the previous round) will be evaluated by the expert judges, while the community will be able to vote for the video between
November 21, 2011 10:00 CET and December 20, 2011 10:00 CET.
14.Top Five Teams (one team with the most community votes and four best teams by expert judges’ evaluation) – THE GRAND AWARD CONTENDERS – will be announced on
January 6, 2012 at 10:00 CET, earning
the right to participate in the Challenge:Future Summit 2012 events with an all-expense-paid trip for the entire team.
15.The five Grand Award Contenders will make their final presentations live at the Challenge:Future Summit 2012.
The Grand Award Winner, who will receive the EUR 20,000 prize (gross; can be subject to local taxes), will be announced at the Summit 2012 Gala.