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The GLOBAL Excursion project announces a competition of virtual excursions! You can win Amazon vouchers in a value of 400€ and 200€ for the 1st and 2nd places in 10 different categories! Three overall winners will receive extra prices (500€, 300€, and 200€ Amazon vouchers)! To participate, simply register as a ViSH user, submit your e-excursion before November 20th 2013 and get your prize!
For more information see the announcement: http://vishub.org/competitions or http://www.globalexcursion-project.eu/?p=727.
About the project
The GLOBAL excursion project introduces e-infrastructures to educators and students. It provides a package of activities, materials and tools to enable the integration of e-learning materials into school curricula. Main access point is the GLOBAL Virtual Science Hub – “ViSH” portal, in which scientists and teachers can work on new contents for science teaching. Further, a virtual excursion room is provided, where students are able to experience real e-Science in the areas like nano- and biotechnologies, volunteer computing and life sciences.
About the competition
As the GLOBAL Excursion project is heading to its conclusion, the consortium has decided to organise a competition that will contribute to the further dissemination of ViSH to its various stakeholders plus reward a number of teachers and scientists that have been particularly active regarding the creation of eExcursions.
E-excursions
An eExcursion is a kind of presentation created with multimedia didactical material which allows a better understanding of a scientific infrastructure, equipment of facility. eExcursions are didactical units used for science teaching, either shown in class or to be explored by students on their own. An eExcursion should include one or more of the following: text, images, videos, flash objects (games, simulations, etc.), remote e-Infrastructure resources (live webcams, remote labs, etc.), quizzes, etc. that can be found through the ViSH portal.
Categories
The two (2) best eExcursions will be selected in the following categories: Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Environmental studies, Geography, Engineering, Humanities, Natural Science, Computer Science.
Countries
The competition for the best eExcursions is open to any registered ViSH user, independently of his/her country of origin. We encourage especially teachers, scientists and scientific organisations to create excursions.
Languages
eExcursions can be submitted in the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek and Italian.
Submissions
The competition has been open on 20 October 2013. From that date until 20 November 2013, all teachers, scientists and scientific organisations are welcome to submit their contributions.
Awards and prizes
A total of 23 winners will receive prizes in the form of Amazon vouchers. For each of the above mentioned categories there is a chance to win a 1st and 2nd prize: 1st prize: 400,- € voucher and 2nd prize: 200,- € voucher. On top of that, three (3) overall winners will receive extra prizes: 1st prize: 500,- € voucher, 2nd prize: 300,-€ voucher, 3rd prize: 200,-€ voucher. In addition to the prizes, the 3 overall winners will be invited to join our final conference in Brussels, scheduled for January 2014. Flight, hotel and subsistence will be covered by the project.
For more information see the announcement: http://vishub.org/competitions