Vegetarian Week contest Guidelines

Guidelines

1. Participants can submit their ideas and works directly, after logging in to the website.
2. The deadline for participating is 10 September.
3. These kinds of contributions are accepted:
   
   1. Cartoon
   2. Essay
   3. Leaflet
   4. Poster
   5. Slogan
   6. Poem
   7. Music
   8. Other contributions
4. Participants must be individuals and own copyright of the works they submit.
5. All the submitted texts must be in English.
6. There is no limit of submissions per author - each author can submit many different works. The software accepts one text and one attachment (file) per submission.
7. Prizes
   
   1. The awarded contributions will become official IVW material, and the authors will be promoted by vegetarian week project;
   2. The winner can be announced with a press release, presentation of the person with picture and article about her/him or an interview - whatever is preferred.
   3. Additionally, the following 10 awards can be given:
      
      1. 60 euros voucher for http://en.efeitoverde.com, courtesy of Efeito Verde - Lda.
      2. 50 euros voucher for http://www.amazon.com, courtesy of EVANA.
      3. 3-8 Vegdining cards (valued at $11.95US for members of recognized veg groups, $15.95US others - http://vegdining.com), courtesy of VegDining.
8.  NGOs, companies and individuals taking part in the IVW are invited to promote the campaign on their websites, via their distribution systems and newsletters and in whatever form they find suitable.
9.  A jury consisting of reps from all NGOs supporting the idea will grade the contributions until 25 September.
10.  The grading system will be double-blinded (the author doesn't know who are the reviewers, and the reviewers don't not know who are the authors).
11. Each submission will be graded by at least 2 reviewers.
12. The assessment criteria are:

    1. Relevance for the International Vegetarian Week goals (promotes the
       vegetarian lifestyle?  promotes the vegetarian week?);

    2. Quality (is the message scientifically correct [if applicable]? are
       there typos in the texts [if applicable]? are the illustrations or
       images good-looking [if applicable]?);

    3. Expected effectiveness (is the message appealing? is it clear? may
       it reach a wide audience?).
       

13. The winners will be announced on 1 October.
14. The authors agree that their submissions are actually contributions to the IVW project, and the winning contribution(s) may be freely used to promote the IVW.