The 14th Eco-generation Environmental Essay Competition inviting Youth all over the world

Deadline: 16-Aug-21

The Tunza Eco-generation and Samsung Engineering jointly with United Nations Environment Programme would like to launch “The 14th Eco-generation Environmental Essay Competition” inviting youth all over the world to raise awareness on the theme of the upcoming World Environment Day – Ecosystem Restoration.

To commemorate World Environment Day (WED) and its annual theme, Eco-generation would like to celebrate the bigger and better WED than ever and to call on Tunza Eco-generation members around the world to show their will to act on Ecosystem Restoration for the future generations by writing an essay.

It also aims to collect the ways to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of ecosystems by requiring them to think about the various reasons why bringing back a healthy ecosystem is imperative for them and the future generations.

Theme: Inspiring and creative stories on ecosystem restoration – Sharing stories, commitments and reflections on how you and other young people are taking action in protecting the environment and restoring ecosystems.

Criteria

No entry fee is required.
All entries must be original works, in English.
Entrants must first register at Tunza.eco-generation.org in order to submit their essay online.
Entries should not have been previously published in other professional media.
Each entrant may submit only one essay.
All entries are final. No revisions are accepted.
Plagiarism and off topic will result in disqualification.
All entries must be double spaced in Times New Roman 12pt, with numbered pages in one of the following formats. All other formats will be disqualified.
- MS Word
- Word Perfect
Entries must be from 800 to 1000 words in length. This does not include referencing such as footnotes and bibliography.
The decisions of the judges are final and are entirely their own and in no part represents the opinion of Samsung Engineering.
Samsung Engineering and UN Environment Programme reserve First Serial Rights on all submissions. All other rights to the essay remain in the property of the author.
At the discretion of the judges, all well-written essays may be published on the relevant Websites.
The personal information in the entry must be correct. If the competition winner is not reachable due to wrong information (contact number, address and etc.) the prize will be canceled and be automatically given to the next runner-up.