General overview

Submissions are now open for the SumItUp contest designed to showcase the creativities of the climate creatives and champions. The #Youth4ClimateLive Series is initiating the #SumItUp competition with an opportunity for YOU to win a chance to attend the “Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition” conference held on September 28-30 2021, in Milan, Italy as well as have your creative work featured! Moreover, SumItUp is a climate education competition that encourages young creators to share their creative work!

Details of the competition

Application deadline: the competition will be held in three phases with a different deadline for each.

Deadline for phase one: 25 September 2020

Deadlines for phases two and three: Will be communicated soon.

Organizer: #Youth4ClimateLive Series

Theme: Climate Work

Number of finalists: 3

Contest benefits

You will receive:

• Prizes
• Promotion
• Peer-to-peer learning
• One finalist selected by the audience vote for each of the three competition phases and will have their work recognized online and showcased at the Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition event.
• Finalists will gain full credit and recognition for their work.

Prizes

• All three finalists will have the opportunity to present their creative sum-up at the Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition Pre-COP event in Milan 2021. Of the three finalists, one winner shall be chosen to win a trip (including travel and housing) to Milan to deliver their innovative sum-up in person at the conferenced mentioned above.
• The event organizer will use finalists’’ work as a learning tool to be included in the #Youth4ClimateLive website and shared with all the members of Pre-COP26.
• Finalists’ work will be featured on social media through the office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Connect4Climate – World Bank Group, and the Italian Ministry for Environment, Land, and Sea.

Eligibility criteria

• It is open to all innovative applicants interested in climate championship and works on climate.
• If you are a creative young individual between the ages of 15 to 29, then you are best eligible for this competition.
• In case a participant is 17 years of age or younger, their legal guardian must know about their involvement and submission, in which case both will enjoy the benefits.

How to get involved in the competition?

1. Register and participate in the monthly #Youth4ClimateLiveonline events (or watch online here).
2. Make a #SumItUp visual representation that captures the essence, ideas, and results of three episodes from the #Youth4ClimateLive Series, either episodes 1 through 3, 4 through 6, or 7 through 9. There are three opportunities for you to become as a finalist!

Format of the competition

The #SumItUp competition calls youth to share their creativity and use their genuine voice to deliver a distinctive visual representation of what happened in each of the #Youth4ClimateLive Series episodes. The competition will unfold in three phases:

1^st Phase: Episode 1 – 3

2^nd Phase: Episode 4 – 6

3^rd Phase: Episode 7 – 9

Each sum-up should share key takeaways from each of the three episodes within the competition phase rather than an overall summary.

The clarity for visual representation

 A visual representation intends to transfer an idea or concept through photographs, numbers, and other visible components, with as little text or sound as possible. Text is permitted but only use what’s necessary and with creativity as well – you can use poetry, alliteration, and rhymes to help draw people in!

 Though submissions should be centered on visual content, this can be in several forms, including but not limited to: infographics, drawings, mind maps, simple animations, and silent videos.

What Format & Technology Specifics should you consider in your submission?

• If you make infographics, photos, or other digital art, please submit each page (if more than one) of your content as a high-resolution file (at least 2048 by 2048 pixels) saved as a .jpeg or .png
• Videos should not lengthier than 2 minutes with the following tech particulars:
• Frame rate: 23.98, 25, or 29.97
• HD Resolution: 1920×1080 (horizontal) or 1080×1920 (vertical) or 1080×1080 (square)
• Preferable file types: .mov, .mp4
• Language of text has to be English.
• Use your name as a file name! If you have over one image, please number them (i.e., JaneGoodall1, JaneGoodall2, JaneGoodall3)

Rules for submission

• You must submit an original concept.
• You must license/get the rights to use any components in your submission that are not your pure work.
• You must submit a separate entry through the link below.
• You might only submit one entry per contest phase.
• You may register for webinars and get back to past episodes here at Live.
• You must agree to the terms and conditions listed below.

​Judging process

Judging will occur after each phase, and finalists will be pronounced following that timeline.

How to submit your entry?

Entrants will submit their entries via Reach Not Preach. Then, submissions will be exhibited on the platform, so the #Youth4ClimateLive audience can vote for their favorite #SumItUp creative visual summary! And, the voters will consider your inventiveness, originality, accessibility, and how well you summarize key takeaways from the Y4C series.

Make a submission HERE.