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The Creativity International Awards is an advertising competition of sorts where agencies and students are able to submit work they have created into one of two categories to compete for the top prizes. This competition is unique as professionals and students compete with and against each other. The two categories are Media & Interactive and Print & Packaging. The Media & Interactive entry period has closed but the Print & Packaging section will begin accepting entries from 3 June to 20 September 2019. For more information, please click here . 

The TAALEM Award is awarded to school and university students through entering a poetry-writing competition which is held annually by the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. Students may enter but writing a poem that does not exceed 32 lines. The poem can be written in either Arabic or English. The competition is segregated into four separate categories which are determined by age groups. For more information, please click here . 

Since 1999, the Federal Statistical Office has annually awarded the Gerhard Fürst Prize in the categories dissertations and diploma or master theses (including master and bachelor theses). It is awarded to outstanding papers that either deal with theoretical topics closely related to the range of tasks of official statistics or examine the empirical issues with intensive use of data from official statistics. It can also be work from theoretical statistics or economic and social statistics as well as economics or sociological treatises. With the Gerhard Fürst Prize, the Federal Statistical Office would like to promote the study of official statistics issues in the context of higher education and further intensify cooperation between science and official statistics. The prize was named after the first president of the Federal Statistical Office and long-time chairman of the German Statistical Society, Gerhard Fürst, who fully embodied the organizational and legal structure of official statistics in Germany after 1945, with its central cornerstones of professional concentration and scientific independence has significantly shaped. The premium for a dissertation to be awarded is € 5,000 and for a thesis to be awarded € 2,500. In addition, the prize winners publish an article about their work in the monthly journal of the Federal Statistical Office "Economy and Statistics". The award ceremony takes place as part of the scientific colloquium organized annually in November by the Federal Statistical Office in cooperation with the German Statistical Society in Wiesbaden. For more information, please visit:  https://www.destatis.de/DE/UeberUns/UnsereAufgaben/GerhardFuerstPreis/GerhardFuerstPreis.html

The Sponsorship Award of the WGZ Bank Foundation is under the motto ""Act courageously - initiatives that show the way"". With this award, the WGZ Bank Foundation supports project ideas and initiatives to improve socio-political, economic or vocational education. The WGZ Bank Foundation was established in 2009 on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the former WGZ BANK. The WGZ BANK Foundation would like to present project ideas and initiatives for the improvement of socio-political, economic or vocational training that complies with the articles of association of the WGZ BANK Foundation. This can be, for example, training in schools to improve economic and financial literacy, actions to successfully transition school-work or other projects related to economics or politics. The projects and initiatives may already be in the process of implementation or in a concrete planning status. The WGZ Bank foundation are looking for projects and initiatives that promote, for example, the successful transition from school to work or economic and financial literacy. It does not matter if the projects are still in the planning phase or are already being implemented. Schools, funding associations, local foundations or other educational initiatives from the Rhineland and Westphalia can submit their applications. A jury consisting of members of the board and the board of trustees of the WGZ Bank Foundation decides on the winners. The prize-giving ceremony for the promotion prize endowed with a total of €15,000 will take place  at the DZ Bank Düsseldorf branch. For further information about this award, please visit: https://www.dzbank.de/content/dzbank_de/de/home/unser_profil/engagements/wgz_bank_stiftung.html

Life is Tech! The (Life Is Tech) is a programming · IT camp / school for middle school students, high school students. For more information visit the official website here

Coursera is an online learning platform founded by Stanford professors that offers courses, specialisations, and degrees. It provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organisations to offer courses online.   These are especially great for students to show their interest and commitment to a subject, display that they have been exposed to further study in the subject and reduces access barriers for students who are not able to access opportunities. It shows they have not allowed any physical or other limits stop them from seeking out self study.

The competition is open to all students who are in Year 11, 12, or 13 of secondary education, and medical students. All entries should be word processed. The maximum word count for entries is 1,500 words, excluding references. Only one entry per person is permitted. Entries to the competition must be unique. The deadline for applications is Friday 8th February 2019. All entrants will receive a certificate for their participation. One winner will be selected and will receive a winner’s certificate and a copy of all the books in our UGTM series worth over £250.

The students have to test their skills in all major areas of Earth sciences, including geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, terrestrial astronomy and environmental sciences. The theoretical examination includes problems which are supposed to measure the participants’ knowledge and understanding of Earth science areas. The practical examination consists of tasks which are designed to assess participants’ abilities to carry out scientific investigations in earth science inquiries. The examinations are prepared by specialists in Earth sciences and Earth science education, who also provide solutions and evaluation guidelines. Each delegation is composed of 4 students and 2 supervisors. The latter must be specialists in Earth science and Earth science education and capable of serving as members of the International Jury. The official language of IESO is English; however, the supervisors may translate the written examinations and related materials into to the participants’ native language. The main aim of the IESO is to encourage students’ interest and public awareness of Earth Science and to enhance Earth science learning. The IESO the organizers hope to pick out talented and gifted Earth science students and to promote the improvement of teaching Earth sciences at schools. Last but not least, the IESO is developed in pursuit of encouraging friendly relationships among young learners from different countries and promoting international cooperation in exchanging ideas and materials on Earth sciences and Earth sciences education. The IESO is the only International Olympiad that includes an International Team Field Investigation – ITFI. The last International Team Field Investigation focused on: developing stratigraphic sequences, evaluating living on the Mt. Mayon volcano, and evaluating the fault escarpment of the Chi-Chi earthquake. In 2010 in Indonesia the International Team Field Investigation focused attention on sustainability and use of the underground water. Thus, ITFI turns out to be a special IESO tool to encourage friendly relationships among young learners from different countries and to promote international cooperation. For more information please visit the official website here . 

An academic program for high schoolers at the International College of Economics and Finance (High School of Economics). The program consists of three concentrations: 1) Academic - for students interested in studying economics that are not participating in economics olympiads. 2) Olympiad - for students interested in participating in economics and finance olympiads. This curriculum prepares students to participate in both Russian and international olympiads. 3) Academic Plus - for students that have already participated in the ICEF Evening school. This curriculum expands students' knoweledge in mathematical analysis, statistics, programming, and investments. For more information visit the official website at https://icef.hse.ru/evschool/

Lectures, training sessions and games for school children of 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th grades wishing to get acquainted with the psychological sciences, the profession of a psychologist, prepare for competitions in psychology. This is a project for school children that provides kids an opportunity to get acquainted with different areas of psychology, learn about the career prospects of a psychologist (a psychologist is not just a person who asks if you “Want to talk about this?”) and find friends from different parts of Russia. For more information visit the official website at https://social.hse.ru/psy/sjp/

The Open Law School is organised by the Higher School of Economics. The school aims to give students legal knoweledge and in some cases experience both to prepare them for university studies and for life. The school also helps students prepare for olympiads in Law and moot courts. The school improves the level of legal culture and legal literacy among schoolchildren. For more information visit the official website at  https://pravo.hse.ru/school/about  

MGIMO’s school of international diplomacy for youth. The school has multiple annual events for students from Russia and CIS. The school has locations all around Russia, where students can take classes in subjects ranging from human rights to international diplomacy. The school also has multiple international programs that take students to places like the UN and international courts. For more information visit the official website http://mgimo-school.ru/news

The CODDY® Team strives to provide children with a lot of coding knowledge and project management skills that they, being 15 years of age, would be able to: - Enroll into leading Russian or International University - Start their own business - Get a job with a Russian or an International IT-corporation. Courses the school provides not only develop technical skills of coding, creation of mobile applications, but also develops soft skills such as design-thinking, startup course, etc. Courses are held in offices of IT-corporations, where students immerse themselves in high-tech atmospheres. We constantly keep in touch with the parents so that we can work together towards our common goal of assisting the child in self-realisation and being successful. For more information visit the official website at https://coddyschool.com/

Children's Academy "Ostankino" is a unique educational center for schoolchildren, which provides training in a variety of specialties that are in demand on television. Here, students will learn how to become a real journalist, how to create a TV program or television show, learn the basics of acting and directing, participate in theatrical performances, learn to draw and create cartoons. Anyone wishing to study at the Ostankino Children's Academy can choose one or several studios at once: Theater, Television or Film Studio.   For more information visit the official website at  https://www.shkola-tv.ru/detskaya-akademiya-televideniya-ostankino/

The course is intended for teenagers seeking to understand fashion with history, development of culture and art. For more information visit the official website at  https://britishdesign.ru/courses/fashion-and-styling/

The main goal of the course is to teach teens to create their first successful business projects aimed at solving problems existing in society. For more information visit the official website at  https://britishdesign.ru/courses/cool-start-up/

For teenagers parents' influence becomes less important, while communication with others and support plays key role in personality development. All parents desire to see passion and dedication in their kids' eyes, they wish to transfer their knowledge and experience, but often can't catch their children's attention. HeadStart courses and camps were particularly designed to assist both parents and kids with finding the answer to the question "what to do after school graduation?". Through experienced mentors involved in real businesses and hands-on activities HeadStart shows children what opportunies are present and guides to pursue them, teaches them to use properly. These events are directed in the future and evolves the ability to build a guideline. For more information visit the official website at  http://headstart.camp/

Stamford is an online educational platform offering remote extended education for children in science and engineering areas. The platform helps to determine fields of interest early and further develop them. It was created for the purpose of promotion of natural sciences and fundamentals of nanotechnology, and also for advanced training of educators in e-learning. Stemford consists of e-courses, webinars, videos and other materials on STEM topics (Sciеnсе, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and nanotechnologies (nanomaterials, optics, electronics, medicine and pharmacology, energy efficiency, surface modification), remote network projects. Unique industry content from leading experts in high tech nimbly integrated into educational process. Along with educational content, procedural framework is provided as well. For more information visit the official website at  https://stemford.org/

The NTSI-SkART accelerator is a unique format of project incubator for schoolchildren of two categories: the older category - students aged 14-21 and the junior category JuniorSkart - students aged 7-13. The main objectives are: to popularize project activities and increase interest in the problems and prospects of the socio-economic development of the regions which they live in; to identify and develop creative abilities and passion for scientific, technical, research and design activities, systems engineering; to increase motivation to study sciences and ; the formation of key competencies, professionally significant personal qualities and motivation for the practical application of subject knowledge; creating the necessary conditions to support gifted students; scientific education and targeted vocational guidance of students; promotion of scientific knowledge; Intensive system support and development of the project participant under the accelerator program; formation of the composition of students and the bank portfolio of talented young people, the most capable and prepared to master the programs of higher professional education for technical universities; search for new ideas, fixing new trends in the development of intellectual, technical creativity and invention; the formation of early vocational guidance and vocational training of students in general educational and vocational training systems according to the standards and competencies of JuniorSkills and WorldSkills; search for teams and promising solutions for the needs of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) market; the involvement of young people in innovation activities carried out on the basis of the Youth Innovation Creativity Centers (TsMIT); identifying potential participants of the UMNIK  For more information visit the official website at   http://ntsirf.ru/  

The question of what knowledge and skills an entrepreneur should possess is a stumbling block upon which many researchers have broken their spears. Knowledge of an entrepreneur, especially in one's field of activity, is very necessary, but there are enough examples of the fact that people who do not have any professional education outmatch the others with excellent professional education in this area. This means that there is no unequivocal answer to the question of what a successful entrepreneur should be. You can describe the personal potential that will significantly ease the path to successfully managing your own business. The program of the Academy is formed taking into account the competence, professional, leadership, intellectual, communicative, motivational and other approaches. The program allows you to address the development of schoolchildren management, entrepreneurial skills and business skills. From school age, it allows developing the social, legal, behavioral competencies of an enterprising person, enables schoolchildren to acquire modern knowledge and skills in building and developing their own business, master technologies, learn tactics of competition, cooperation, management, commerce. Entrepreneurial activities in an educational context will help students to become more flexible, self-confident, independent, teach them how to make decisions, plan, be more creative in their work, solve problems, navigate situations, interact with partners, have more social skills, information about business, better get to know yourself and learn how to manage projects and processes.   For more information visit the official website at  http://www.napdeti.ru/