opportunites pour jeunes africains

The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) engages creative minds around the world to encourage bolder and less conventional business solutions to global poverty.

Students from around the world—and across fields of study—are invited to find innovative, commercially-sustainable business solutions to problems of poverty in the developing world. GSEC plans are judged on the quality of life in the developing world, financial sustainability, and implementation feasibility.

Filmmakers worldwide can submit their one-minute films on climate change to a film competition called "1minutetosavetheworld Film Competition."

Witness accounts, adaptation stories, animation, innovation, satire, under 18’s, amateur film-makers, professionals, fiction, music videos…Whoever you are and whatever your take on climate change we want you to take action and make a 1 minute film to save our world!

Deadline: October 30, 2009

nternews and Music TV (MTV) announce the launch of the MTV Positive Change Award on creative multimedia coverage of climate change. Any young person between the ages of 18 and 28, who is passionate about climate change, is invited to apply to a special category of the Earth Journalism Awards specifically designed by MTV and Internews for young people. The winner of the MTV Positive Change Award will be honoured at an awards ceremony at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2009 and will be supported by a production team from Internews to cover the negotiations for youth audiences around the world. The MTV Positive Change Award gives one young adult a chance to have their work showcased on the eve of the final negotiations. As well as winning the chance to be at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen the winner will also receive a video camcorder.

To celebrate the amazingly varied world around us we're asking you to grab your camera and show us what biodiversity means to you by entering our See the Bigger Picture photo contest.

The contest is open to kids aged between 6 and 16*. Submit one colour image that you think captures the spirit or idea of biodiversity. It could be a favourite tree or a plant, an animal or an insect, even a whole ecosystem (from your own back yard to somewhere you've visited on vacation) — your image should show people why biodiversity is a good thing that we should try to preserve.

Submit your essay on democracy, and get your free ticket to the world’s largest gathering of democracy and human rights activists in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2010!

The World Youth Movement for Democracy (www.wymd.org), a youth network of the World Movement for Democracy (www.wmd.org), is pleased to announce the launch of its Global Essay Contest. Fifteen winners (3 in each region: Asia, Central/Eastern Europe & Eurasia, Middle East & North Africa, Latin America & Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa) will be invited to participate in the upcoming 6th Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Jakarta, Indonesia, in April 2010.