Participants – Students of the Foreign Trade University, all academic degrees and all the schools inside FTU can participate. Participants can be individuals or teams of maximum 5 members each.
Topic – Vietnamese Youth’s potential contribution towards the United Nation’s SDGs
Prompt – The contestants have to present a project which underline the role of Vietnamese youth, as part of the civil society, in the success of the Sustainable Development Goals.
This contest will have two main phases:
‣ The first round (at FTU): The contestants will present their project to a committee composed of 5 FTU’s members. They should explain their motivation an justify their approach of the topic. The goal is to show the potential of the ideas they want to develop. The content
‣ The second round (at UNIDO): Presentation of the final project with a presentation works and a summary. The committee will ask questions to the contestants.
Product contents:
No matter which format is chosen, the work should contain:
(1) Investigation part
This part should aim to identify and show problems / challenges. The problems/challenges can be the gap between UN’s or other development agencies’s standards/objectives and Vietnam’s factual situation OR other forms of factual status which is negative in inself (by development standards) or would pose negative impacts on human being’s welfare in the future. This should contains data to support the argumentation and/or make a comparative analysis with other countries. This part may need analytical tools or theoretical framework, which is optional.
(2) Recommendation part
Use knowledge and creativity and work out suggestions regarding contribution and ways to contribute by the youth in Vietnam to the UN’s SDGs
Notes: contents of the works successfully passing the first round should be improved basing on the assessment committee’s comments
Product format
Original format with a 10 minutes presentation. In the following table, the students can find some ideas to present their project, especially for the second round.
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VIDEO |
ARTISTIC WORK |
THEORICAL WORK |
PRACTICAL WORK |
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Video reportage
Interviews
Short movie
Clip
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Song Theatre Photography
Speech
Painting, Drawing
Poster Poetry |
Research Work
Newspapper
Novel, Essay |
Visible model New technologies
Campaign
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Assessment criteria
Priority is given to the works/products meeting the following requirements
– Showing participant’s creativity
– Being logical
– Clearly, concisely expressed in English
– Being practical and realistic
Timeline
– Kick-off ceremony: 16h30-17h30, 14 April, 2016 – Lien Viet International Conference Room A1001
– First round: 21 May, 2016 (submission for 1st round: 16 May, 2016)
– Second round: 15 June (submission for 2nd round: 10 June, 2016)
– Awarding ceremony: 23 June
Prizes
Cash and/or gifts worth up to VND 3ml/participant + certificates with logo of FTU and UNIDO and signed by FTU’s President and UNIDO’s representative + opportunities to meet UNIDO’s project stakeholders in Vietnam.
NB: Winning projects in others UN’s contests.
Letter :
http://news.upu.int/outreach/letter-writing-competition/2015/gold-medal-winning-letter-2015/
Rap :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujYTi74ICuI
Poster :
https://www.unposterforpeace.org
Comics & Cartoons :
http://beijing20.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/comic-competition/winners
Photo: