Deadline: 20-Aug-22

The “Lands and Droughts” press cartoon competition, organized as part of Désertif’actions 2022 in partnership with France Cartoons and Cartooning for Peace, has been launched.

The international press cartoon competition “Lands and Droughts” took the prism of droughts to better illustrate the role and place of land and soils in the functioning of the terrestrial ecosystem, climate regulation, food security, the maintenance of the biodiversity of living organisms and, in general, in all terrestrial life and its well-being.

Droughts, their impacts and their treatment, exposes the form of unconsciousness, indifference and even contempt shown by humanity for the earth and soils. However, warming temperatures, loss of biodiversity, food insecurity and many other threats, all linked to the continuous degradation of land, have taken a worrying turn, which at the same time increases inequalities and poverty and threatens the future of human societies.

The winner of the first prize will be invited to France in Montpellier during the Désertif’actions 2022 event from October 05 to 08, 2022. The prize and a dedicated creation will be handed over.

Thematic Areas

• For his 4th drawing competition, the organizers of Désertif’actions 2022 wanted to deal with a subject that is extremely topical in both southern and northern countries: “land and drought”. This theme follows “the earth makes its climate” in Montpellier in 2015, “land and climate, the time to act” in Strasbourg in 2017 and “draw me the Great Green Wall” in Ouagadougou in 2019.
• Through humor, derision, irony or enthusiasm, as only a drawing can do, it is a question of highlighting all the paradoxes, inconsistencies, ignorance, leaks, contempt or human arrogance expressed by the treatment that is subjected to land and soil in urban and rural areas. But also all the hopes , commitments, courage, initiatives and solutions such as agroecology, which constitute so many seeds of a change already underway for a viable land and future.

Award Information

The prizes awarded by the organizers are as follows:

• First prize: 1500 euros offered by the United Nations Convention for the Fight against the desertification
• Second prize: 750 euros offered by the organizers of DA22

Eligibility Criteria

• The competition is open to any cartoonist or cartoonist from any country who has published at least one cartoon in the press since June 2021. Each cartoonist can submit only two cartoons, in black and white or in color.
• The jury will be chaired by a personality from the world of the arts and the press and composed of 7 people with different skills on the theme of the competition, the field of press cartoons and the organizers of Désertif’actions 2022.

For more information, visit https://www.cariassociation.org/Actualites/Le-concours-de-dessins-de-presse-de-Desertif-actions-2022-est-ouvert

Deadline: 30-Sep-22

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) World Heritage Centre is pleased to launch the 2022 edition of the Patrimonito Storyboard Competition.

This competition aims to provide young people with an opportunity to use their creative and problem-solving skills to raise awareness about World Heritage sites. The World Heritage Education Programme is welcoming secondary school pupils and youth to create storyboards on the theme of Climate Change and World Heritage. The best submission will be selected by an independent jury and professionally produced into animated films for global distribution to schools and at World Heritage education events.

Themes

• World Heritage
• Climate Change

Eligibility Criteria

• The Patrimonito storyboard competition is open to young people from all over the world aged between 12 and 18 years old.
• The artworks must be created solely by the participant(s), either by hand or using digital drawing tools. In either case, the scanned copies must be submitted by email OR the original copies (in case of hand-drawn entries) or the print versions (in case of digital artworks) must be submitted by postal mail to UNESCO. Participants may also choose to submit their entries through their countries’ National Commissions for UNESCO.

How to Participate

• Storyboard creation
  • Preparing a storyboard is like drawing a comic book. It is a script that presents a story through sketches in chronological sequence. Usually, a storyboard is drawn in pencil, ink, or through digital drawing tools. The images or visual illustrations of the story are portrayed using a series of frames.
  • The story and drawing should reflect:
    • the participant’s knowledge of the World Heritage site they have chosen and the exceptional value of the site.
    • a challenge/problem faced by the site based on the impacts of Climate Change
    • the solution or measures proposed by the participant to the challenge/problem.
  • Blank storyboard worksheets should be used for drawing cartoons. The worksheets give the participants a series of frames that will show the development of the action or story.

Structure of the storyboard

• Participants should reflect on the story they would like to convey to the audience on the theme of Climate Change. Patrimonito should play one of the main roles among the characters, and there should ideally be two more main characters – a young girl and a boy.
• The script will need ‘shape’ – this means it needs a beginning, middle, and an end.
  • Beginning: The participants should set up stories and characters in relation to the selected World Heritage site.
  • Middle: This is the backbone of the story. Here, they should present the obstacles or problems that the characters must overcome; or perhaps if there were no obstacles, an interesting journey, or a series of coincidences that they experienced. Participants should communicate the main message in this section.
  • End: This is the conclusion of the story where everything should fall together, depicting how the problem should be resolved in the participant’s view, and giving the end of the story.
• Participants should balance the presentation of the story. They should consider the number of frames devoted to the description of the site, to the issue confronted by the site, and to the solution they propose.

For more information, visit http://en.unesco.kz/call-for-participants-patrimonito-storyboard-competition-2022

Deadline: 15-Nov-22

The Wildlife Acoustics has announced the applications for Scientific Product Grant Program to support the advancement of animal biology research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation that provides scientists with resources to help further their research into the study of bats, birds, frogs, and other vocal wildlife.

Funding Information

• They’re happy to announce that they’re increasing the value that they are giving away per quarter through their grant program, from $5,000 to $12,000 per quarter.
• They hope this allows them to support more critical bioacoustics research projects around the world.

Eligibility Criteria

• Accessories such as microphones and cables are eligible for the program. However, 3rd party accessories such as SD cards, batteries and battery chargers, padlocks and cable locks are not eligible.
• US or Non-US government agencies are not eligible for the program.
• For each application, please include documentation that indicates tax exempt or non-profit status for your country.

Criteria

• Grant recipients must be associated with a charitable, educational or other tax-exempt organization. Consideration will be given to projects that meet the following criteria:
  • Project makes significant use of wildlife vocalization recordings for data collection and/or analysis.
  • The work advances scientific knowledge and contributes to long-term conservation.
  • The grant would have significant impact on the success of the project.
  • The application provides adequate information to facilitate project evaluation, including detailed expected outcomes and the need for bioacoustics data to support those outcomes.
  • The project must begin within one year of the award.

Requirements

• If you are awarded a grant, you’ll be expected to:
  • Provide written acceptance of the grant and agree to the terms and conditions.
  • Maintain contact with Wildlife Acoustics and provide quarterly project updates.
  • When possible, acknowledge the support of Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. in any presentations, meetings, publications and/or materials resulting from the project.
  • Submit a final report within two months of project completion, or that phase of the project. Refer to Reporting Guidelines for what is expected in the final report. If you fail to submit reports, you will be ineligible for future grants.

For more information, visit Wildlife Acoustics.

Deadline: 14-Oct-22

The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges (MFMC) Small and Large Grants Programme is now open to support communication projects which advance the transition to a low carbon economy.

MFMC supports projects that support urgent, large-scale transformation, with a focus on changing policies and practices in public or private institutions.

Priorities

• The foundation’s priorities for the 2019-2023 period are to:
  • encourage and support innovation in climate communication
  • increase the number of voices and narratives in climate advocacy
  • help strengthen social and political movements that open up for radical change
  • concentrate on supporting European proposals

Funding Information

• The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges – larger grants: MFMC is looking for projects typically in the range of EUR 20,000 to EUR 200,000, although larger projects may be considered.
• The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges – small grants: In this category, it is possible to apply for smaller grants of up to EUR 10,000 in a simplified one-stage process.

Eligibility Criteria

• The MFMC supports projects that support urgent, large-scale transformation, with a focus on changing policies and practices in public or private institutions.
• The calls for applications are open to international applicants.

For more information, visit https://unifor.no/stiftelser/the-minor-foundation-for-major-challenges/?_sf_s=Minor

Deadline: 14-Sep-22

Initiative Marianne is seeking applications for Human Rights Defenders that aims to better assist them in their struggle, both abroad and in France.

The aid programme in France provides for reception (including accommodation if necessary),the payment of a monthly grant for living in Paris, personalised support and networking withhuman rights defenders during a period of 6 months.

Examples of activities for the year of 2022

• Training in cyber security, advocacy, public speaking, project management and negotiation;
• Courses at Sciences Po: “Is a gender equal society possible?”
• Govern and Leave Power: Methods and Practices of Political Communication”;
• Interviews with French senators from the friendship groups of the countries of origin;
• Interviews with the media (e.g. Le Grand Continent or Revue Esprit) for the publication of articles;
• Meetings with NGOs active in the field of human rights and experts related to the topics addressed by the laureates;
• Trip to Lyon with a French association for the defence of human rights and to Strasbourg for the Council of Europe

Eligibility Criteria

• You can apply to be part of the 2023 class of the Marianne initiative by contacting:
  • If you are abroad, ensuring the necessary security conditions: the French embassy/consulate or an organisation linked to the French embassy;
  • If you are in France: a partner entity of the initiative or the interministerial delegation responsible for the reception and integration of refugees
  • It will be in French, English or Spanish.
  • You are committed to the promotion and defence of human rights in your country:
• You are a human rights defender in the sense recognised by the United Nations adult and of non-French nationality, regardless of your place of residence;
• You can provide document(s)/evidence, produced by others (recommendations, press articles, etc.), attesting to your commitment/action in favour of human rights;
• You can justify that participation in the Marianne Initiative’s French aid programme will strengthen your capacity for human rights action in your country and internationally, and that it will enable you to create or develop existing or planned links or projects with French organisations;
• You have a valid passport (with a validity of at least six months) or you are willing to follow the procedures to obtain one;
• You are not subject to any legal ban on leaving the territory;
• You are willing to travel to France from January 2023 to June 2023.

For more information, visit https://www.initiativemarianne.fr/

Deadline: 14-Sep-22

Initiative Marianne is seeking applications for Human Rights Defenders that aims to better assist them in their struggle, both abroad and in France.

The aid programme in France provides for reception (including accommodation if necessary),the payment of a monthly grant for living in Paris, personalised support and networking with human rights defenders during a period of 6 months.

Examples of activities for the year of 2022

• Training in cyber security, advocacy, public speaking, project management and negotiation;
• Courses at Sciences Po: “Is a gender equal society possible?”
• Govern and Leave Power: Methods and Practices of Political Communication”;
• Interviews with French senators from the friendship groups of the countries of origin;
• Interviews with the media (e.g. Le Grand Continent or Revue Esprit) for the publication of articles;
• Meetings with NGOs active in the field of human rights and experts related to the topics addressed by the laureates;
• Trip to Lyon with a French association for the defence of human rights and to Strasbourg for the Council of Europe

Eligibility Criteria

• You can apply to be part of the 2023 class of the Marianne initiative by contacting:
  • If you are abroad, ensuring the necessary security conditions: the French embassy/consulate or an organisation linked to the French embassy;
  • If you are in France: a partner entity of the initiative or the interministerial delegation responsible for the reception and integration of refugees
  • It will be in French, English or Spanish.
  • You are committed to the promotion and defence of human rights in your country:
• You are a human rights defender in the sense recognised by the United Nations adult and of non-French nationality, regardless of your place of residence;
• You can provide document(s)/evidence, produced by others (recommendations, press articles, etc.), attesting to your commitment/action in favour of human rights;
• You can justify that participation in the Marianne Initiative’s French aid programme will strengthen your capacity for human rights action in your country and internationally, and that it will enable you to create or develop existing or planned links or projects with French organisations;
• You have a valid passport (with a validity of at least six months) or you are willing to follow the procedures to obtain one;
• You are not subject to any legal ban on leaving the territory;
• You are willing to travel to France from January 2023 to June 2023.

For more information, visit https://www.initiativemarianne.fr/