WIN $25,000 IN The AFRINOLLY SHORT-FILM COMPETITION

About The Competition
The AFRINOLLY SHORT-FILM COMPETITION is a Unique, Innovative
and Youth-focused Competition, with singular concentration on the
next generation of African film makers. This Competition is designed
to expand the conversations on issues about the African continent by
Africans, motivate and reward young and emerging filmmakers who
exhibit exceptional narrative skills using short movies and
documentary as a medium.
This competition is conceived entirely as an online challenge open to
Africans from across the world creating or have created short films or/
and documentary films of not more than 15 minutes. Participants are
expected to upload their films to a dedicated Competition Website and
the finalists would be decided by a panel of jury and public voting.
Our core objective is to empower African youths to tell their own
stories from their own perspective and eliminate financial barriers to
movies production. We look forward to ultimately creating a new
generation of content providers in the Africa movie industry and
facilitating business model based on sub-15 minutes contents.
This edition of the AFRINOLLY SHORTFILM COMPETITION is in
partnership with respected brands and organizations like MTN Nigeria,
iRepresent International Documentary Film Festival and Goethe
Institut.

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WIN $25,000 CASH PRIZE IN GOOGLE AFRICAN CONNECTED COMPETITION

"20 semi-finalists will be selected to take part in an interview and to produce a
short promotional video. A judging panel made up of Googlers and external
judges will then determine the 10 finalists. Submissions are open from August
27, 2013 to October 31, 2013. The competition will run until February 2014
when the winners will be announced."
Every day, the web is changing lives in Africa. In the next five years, 7 out of the
world’s 10 fastest growing economies will be from Africa. The web is playing an
important part in this development. Today we’re launching a new initiative
called ‘Africa Connected: Success stories powered by the web’, and we need
your help. Have you or has someone you know embraced the web and Google’s
tools? Has it transformed your life, your passion or your business? If so, we
want to hear from you!
The five most inspiring stories stand to win prizes of $25,000 each, and the
winners will also have the opportunity to work with a Google champion to help
them make their venture even more awesome.
To Apply click here

Win 3000 Euros Prize Money in the 2014 Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition

Launch of the competition: 8 October 2013

Submission of Blogs: 2 December 2013 – 31 January 2014

Online Evaluation (public): February – March 2014

Jury Evaluation: April – May 2014

Winners Announced: June 2014The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), in collaboration with FARA, Yam-Pukri, CAFAN, AYF, ANAFE, SPC/PAFPNET ande-Agriculture is pleased to launch the 2nd Edition of the Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition (YoBloCo Awards).

This contest is organised in the framework of the ARDYIS project, which aims to raise youth awareness and improve their capacity on agricultural and rural development issues in ACP countries using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

The aims of this blog competition are to:

• Put into limelight issues, successes and challenges faced by youth engaged in: agriculture in urban and rural areas;
• Encourage the production of information and the use of new information and communication technologies by young farmers’ groups and organisations interested in the “youth in agriculture” question;
• Promote the sharing of information on the issues of agriculture and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

 Who can participate?

The YoBloCo Awards are open in two categories:

a. Individual category

This category is open to students in agricultural training courses, young farmers, journalists or other young people interested in ICT or agriculture.

b. Institutional category

This category is open to local or national

• young farmers’ organisations;
• young members of farmers’ organisations;
• young members of any organisation interested in agriculture, rural development and ICT.

For this competition, an organisation is understood as any type of non-profit or for-profit association, cooperative, forum, network or related grouping, excluding government institutions. Organisations that receive funding from governments but are not formal governmental institutions can be eligible if they fulfil all criteria.