World You Like Challenge Contest

The European Commission has launched the World You Like Challenge Contest calling on individuals, entrepreneurs, businesses, and public and private organisations alike to submit inspiring ideas to tackle climate change.

The aim of the contest is to reward existing pioneering low-carbon initiatives across the European Union, which make a real contribution to tackling climate change and can improve the quality of life, for example through lower energy bills, more comfortable homes, cleaner air, better public transport and less traffic congestion.

Projects should be original and innovative with a concrete and tangible output, as well as illustrating good practice and providing a role model to motivate people and organisations to adopt a low-carbon lifestyle.

Projects can be submitted in five categories:
- Building & living
- Shopping & eating
- Re-use & recycling
- Travel & transport
- Innovative production

Eligibility
Participants have to be 18 years old or over and live in one of the 27 EU Member States.
They are invited to submit entries preferably in English, but all official EU languages will be accepted.
Each participant may enter only one submission.

How to apply
- Participants must fill in the online submission form and agree with terms and conditions.
- Images should have a max of 1,5 MB and should be in a JPEG or PNG formats. Videos submitted should not exceed 50MB and be in MP4 or 3GP formats.

A public voting phase of two months will establish a top 10 of submissions on a European level and for each EU Member State.
Out of the ten most popular projects, a jury will select three winners, which will be invited to the World You Like - Sustainia Awards in Copenhagen in autumn 2013.

For five selected countries which are a special focus of the campaign (Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal) a national top ten will be submitted to the jury, who will select five winners from the top-ten. They will be awarded with additional publicity for their submissions through a national billboard campaign.

Deadline: 14 June 2013.

Further details:
http://www.eurodesk.eu