Rosprirodnadzor Launched the International Prize “Ecology is Everyone’s Business”
The Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor) has launched the International Children’s and Youth Prize “Ecology is everyone’s business.” The new initiative of the service was announced by the head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radionova.
“We are confident that the Ecology is Everyone’s Business Award will become a unifying platform for productive work in terms of raising a fundamentally new, responsible generation. We all breathe the same air and drink the same water, while constantly increasing our demands on the resources of nature. But we must first of all make demands on ourselves. Because health and well-being depends directly on the state of the environment. So that nature does not become a limiting factor in development, it’s time to take care of it. This is our main principle and duty. And here there are no minor roles: how old are you, where you live and what you do – it does not matter. It is both ambitious and deep mission at the same time. We are ready to support those who take it upon themselves. And in order to take care of the environment, it was interesting even for primary school students,
The International Children and Youth Prize “Ecology is Everyone’s Business” is designed to raise the ecological culture and consciousness of young people, to involve children and adolescents in the environmental agenda, using exciting and understandable formats, such as flash mobs or challenges.
Among the main objectives of the award are environmental education, popularization of a culture of responsible attitude to natural resources, increasing public activity among young people, including through “green” volunteering, as well as disclosing the talents of children and adolescents. Anyone between the ages of 7 and 16, who live both in Russia and abroad, can participate in the award.
You can submit an application for participation using the official website of the award: https : // ecologydelokazhdogo.rf There you can also get acquainted with the conditions of participation and detailed information about the nominations.
Acceptance of entries will last until October 1, 2021. After the work of the competition committee and counting the votes of the “people’s jury” (the largest number of views, likes on social networks), the competition committee will sum up the results. The award ceremony for the winners of the award and its laureates will take place at a gala concert in Moscow on November 25.
At the same time, the contestants who won, including in the team nominations, will be able to take part in an outdoor ecological camp, which will be held from November 28 to December 18 at the All-Russian camp “Orlyonok” with a full shift for 21 days.
The Arctic Initiatives Center was the general partner of the project.
“Why are we involved in this project? Because we could not be involved in it – it is absolutely consistent with our mission. This is why we were created to make the world a better place. We are faced with a huge and absolutely not idle task – to involve as many people as possible in the process of heightening attention to environmental issues. And, if we are talking about efficiency, the best option is to involve children and adolescents in this story. This is a new look at the problem: childish, sincere, without tricks, which allows you to make appropriate decisions. It is important to move away from the development and consumption paradigm and learn to be friends with the ecosystem like a child, ”commented Rustam Romanenkov, State Secretary – Deputy Director General of the Arctic Initiatives Center.
The Rosprirodnadzor initiative was also supported by the Orlyonok All-Russian Children’s Camp and Children’s Radio.
The international youth award “Ecology is everyone’s business” provides 12 main nominations for participants and a special nomination for media representatives covering the event. Among the nominations for participants: “Let’s Save the Planet Together”, “My Eco-Family – My Team”, “Young Eco-Blogger”, “Eco-Trends”, “Eco-School”, “Eco-Project”, “Eco-Drawing ”,“ Eco-focus ”,“ Eco-cartoon ”,“ Eco-volunteer ”,“ Young eco-journalist ”,“ Ecology in the world ”. For media representatives, the nomination – “Shout of the Media” is included. In addition, the nomination “Ecology in the world” is provided only for foreign participants, they need to present a positive experience and an innovative view of solving environmental problems in their region of residence. A number of nominations have sections, for example, “Save the Planet Together” includes two sub-nominations: Eco-etiquette and My eco-world. Participants can send a video, where they talk about their eco-space, and it doesn’t matter if it is a window sill with flowers or using an eco-taxi, this is all the eco-world of a child, teenager, where he lives. Eco-etiquette is also interesting. Participants can both come up with their own environmental rules of etiquette and present other ideas.
The new initiative of Rosprirodnadzor will allow not only to develop social and environmental responsibility among young people, but also to form the potential for professional implementation in the environmental sector and the skills of effective teamwork.
Recall that in 2020, for the first time in the history of the Russian Federation, environmental goals were brought to the national level. The “Ecology is everyone’s business” award responds simultaneously to several: “Comfortable and safe environment for life”, “Creation of opportunities for self-realization and development of talents”, “Digital transformation”.
Information note about the Prize:
International Children and Youth Prize “Ecology is everyone’s business”
The main thing: to raise the level of ecological culture and literacy of youth, to identify talented participants, to contribute to the development of public activity of children’s and youth volunteer organizations.
The award is held in accordance with the national development goals of the Russian Federation:
“An opportunity for self-realization and development of talents”
“Comfortable and safe environment for life”
“Digital transformation”.
General Provisions:
The prize is attended by children and adolescents from 7 to 16 years old from the Russian Federation and other countries. Individual and team participation (up to 4 people).
Dates:
Acceptance of applications from April 1, 2021 to October 1, 2021
The work of the jury, the counting of votes in the popular vote on social networks – from October 2 to November 10, 2021.
The award ceremony in Moscow on November 25, 2021.
Exit ecological camp in “Orlenok” from November 28, 2021 to December 18, 2021 – shift 21 days.
Competition nominations:
Presentations and videos of creative works are posted on the social networks VKontakte, Instagram, Tik-Tok, YouTube and have unique hashtags of the Prize: #ecologyseveryone, #pndeeds, – two in Russian and two in English – #ecologyiseveryone #rpnforchildren
1. Nomination “Let’s Save the Planet Together”
This nomination includes two sub-nominations: “Eco-etiquette”, “My eco-world”.
Participants need to tell about their eco-space and show what you yourself do in order to improve the environment.
2. Nomination “My eco-family is my team”
Participants in the nomination are invited to show in any form and genre how his family popularizes the theme of ecological family education and raises the level of ecological culture of children and adolescents.
3. Nomination “Young eco-blogger”
Participants need to create and post on the social network life hacks or challenges that motivate the public to take specific actions to solve environmental problems. In the material, they share their experience of respecting nature (for example, the failure of polyethylene, paper, plastic, etc.).
4. Nomination “Eco-Trends”
It is necessary to conduct an environmental campaign or flash mob in different formats, reflecting the promotion of a healthy lifestyle and environmental well-being.
5. Nomination “Eco-school”
Presentation of a video clip of an environmental event “from start to finish”, which was held in an educational organization for 1 to 2 months and received a real positive result.
6. Nomination “Eco-project”
Preparation of the concept of an ecological project for subsequent implementation.
7. Nomination “Eco-drawing”
Popularization of the topic of preserving the environment, respect for nature and increasing the level of ecological culture among younger students.
8. Nomination “Eco-focus”
Popularization of the topic of ecology through photographs.
9. Nomination “Eco-cartoon”
Creation of an animation video on environmental topics.
10. Nomination “Eco-volunteer”
Identifying eco-volunteers and activists involved in environmental activities.
11. Nomination “Young Eco-Journalist”
Identification of adolescents who write talentedly on the topic of preserving the environment, respect for nature, raising the level of the ecological culture of children and adolescents, as well as creating content for television and radio formats.
12. Nomination “ Ecology in the world » (Nomination «Ecology in the world »)
Dissemination of positive experience, innovative views of a foreign participant on solving environmental problems in the region of his residence. For foreign participants only.
13. Special nomination “Mouthpiece of the Media”
Nominated for professionals of international, federal and regional media.
Preliminary result:
A working focus group was held – a pilot start to get feedback from potential project participants. As a result, in a fairly short period of time, we received a lot of creative works, not only from Russia, but also abroad, such countries as Belgium, Italy, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. I was glad that the guys sent their works not only for the nomination “Eco-drawing”, but also challenges, videos of actions, foreign experience, and the cartoon turned out to be in great demand.
