Deadline: 31-Jan-22
The World Bank Group (WB) and the Financial Times (FT) are inviting you to enter this year’s fourth annual global blog writing competition.
The World Bank Group is looking for your most inventive ideas, high-quality writing, and innovative solutions that would strengthen education going forward.
You could win a chance to be published in the Financial Times and the World Bank Blogs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Participants must be enrolled in high school or a version of secondary education and should be between the ages of 15-19 years at the time of submission.
- Entries can be submitted in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
- The winning entries will be published in English.
- There is no fee payable to enter the competition.
Criteria
Submissions should include:
- A strong blog or essay, no longer than 500 words.
- Your name, age, school, email, and country you live in.
- Optional: any photos, videos, visualizations that help support your story.
Judging Criteria
- Entries will be judged by a high-level panel comprised of senior officials at the World Bank, the Financial Times, and select partners.
- The full names of the judges can be made available on request.
- Judging will take place during March 2022 and winners will be contacted and announced around April 2022 on the World Bank blog and Financial Times website, unless a winner objects to publication of their name at the time of entry.
- Entries will be judged against originality, creativity, writing quality, and solutions presented.
- The judging panel’s decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
- Winners will be contacted via the contact information provided with their submission.
For more information, visit https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/how-can-we-improve-education-tell-us-world-bank-and-financial-times-blog-writing-competition