Thursday, February 4, 2010

Our lifestyles will be "COOL" in 2030?


by Alessio Sciurpa

How to change our lifestyles in 2030? COOL - Change Of Our Life, the European Commission project operates in Germany, Italy, Greece and Latvia asking it. Five minutes film or six photographs to see how it could change daily life in relation to climate change. This is the theme of the Competition Multimedia International “Klima Clima".

The partners involved in the initiative are: Kolleg für Management und Gestaltung Nachhaltiger Entwicklung gGmbH (Germany), Foundation for Environmental Education (Latvia); Camera per la Cooperazione e Incentivo al Partenariato (Italy), Athens Network of Collaborating Experts (Greece).

“Klima clima” ask to the young participants (no more than thirty years) a photostory or an Internet movie with their vision of energy supply future, on consumption patterns of the coming decades and, more importantly, lifestyle desirable to implement an intelligent energy revolution.
The deadline for the multimedia contents is February 21, 2010.

A maximum of 150 characters will accompany the Photostory, whereas for the Internet movie is a limit of 5 minutes in any format and any device (short film, infotainment, commercials, documentary), in both cases, the products must have no more of two years.
The lack of specific technical requirements for video and the use a common language such as photography, allows to focus on environmental communication content the attention should extend to anyone participating in the contest.

Keep in mind that the works that were not in the native language of the countries that promote the project (German, Italian, Latvian and Greek) will be subtitled or translated in English, while those in the English language will have to declare which of the four countries, but only in one, intend to participate in the contest. Also this will allow participants to give their best, without having the English language limit.

The competition is divided in 2 levels, nationally and internationally, will have a first selection in each of the four countries. Subsequently, the winners of their respective national competitions will take part in international competition.

Each country will deliver a jury of filmmakers, scientists working on environmental issues and communication experts consulted in the website section Jury and Award.
From denote the site of the initiative thus becomes a vehicle for content related to climate change and institutions / organizations that, with scientific rigor, deal with it internationally. Those same organizations that often are cited in the midst of enumeration data and research, and too often confused and lumped together with reality and expressions which frankly have very little of scientific. Welcome, then better information on the work of these together, the topics relevant to the competition. In this regard, we invite you to read the original version of the article by John Tomlinson (The Michigan Mauler) Christopher Booker Prize 2009 winner, right on climate change.

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