With the goal of celebrating the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and the 10^th anniversary of MABnet, the Man and the Biosphere Programme of UNESCO has launched a video contest. Any individual or group wishing to produce a film on the theme "People, Biodiversity and Ecology" is invited to participate. Teams made up of students, teachers and others (e.g. photographers and multimedia professionals) are particularly encouraged, and the films must relate to one or more Canadian biosphere reserves.

Narratives for the video film may be in English, French or Spanish. Participants in the competition must authorize UNESCO to use the video film and other supporting materials submitted for educational and other non-commercial purposes. The video produced should be a "web-friendly" compressed format, such as Standard AVI and MPEG formats, QuickTime format and Real format. The length of the video should be minimum 6mn and maximum 10mn. The winner or winning team will be offered a prize of US $2000.

The video must be submitted to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO with the application form by November 7, 2005. UNESCO will only accept applications which have been approved by the National Commission.

For more information on the contest, please visit: UNESCO

Canadian Commission for UNESCO
350 Albert, P.O. 1047
Ottawa, ON, Canada K1P 5V8
Tel: (613) 566-4414, ext. 5517
1-800-263-5588, ext. 5517
Fax: (613) 566-4405
dominique.potvin@unesco.ca