The Center for Civil Society Promotion (CPCD) in cooperation with the Youth Resource Center (ORC) Tuzla through the CAT BiH team (Citizens Against Terrorism) invites all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply for participation in the contest #Speak which is realized within USAID’s Independent Media Empowerment Program (IMEP).
You have the opportunity to write the way you think.
The citizens react to social phenomena and events that interfere with regular processes and quality of life in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Among other things, why keep quiet?
Make a video. Take photos. Write. Publish.
And, by the way, win valuable cash prizes!
Send your application with your media content (text with accompanying photo).
Citizens are able to share a significant amount of content on a daily basis in the form of information, photos, videos and other types of content on portals that are not officially media. The most common channels for circulating content are social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
A prize fund in the total amount of 1000 BAM is awarded for the four best media contents – the prize of the expert jury in the amount of 400 BAM and three audience prizes in the amount of 200 BAM each.
Rules of participation:
- The #Speak competition is open to all adult citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- The deadline for submission of media content is February 1, 2022. Applications received after this date will not be considered.
- Visit the application link to publish your text (story) with the accompanying photo. Before publishing your media content via the online form at the given link, you need to register on the website.
- Media content should be:
- grammatically and orthographically correct text (story) that should contain the hashtag in the title: #Speak
- text (story) that does not contain less than 200 and not more than 1000 words,
- a photograph that does not contain less than 20 words in the description,
- a text (story) that DOES NOT CONTAIN political or any other type of propaganda, that affirms political figures, that spreads hate speech, nationalism, violates human rights or explicit photographs,
- text (story) with accompanying photo that have the approval of the guardian if there is a minor on them,
- copyright photographs or photographs for which you have permission.
- You can apply with more than one media content, but we certainly prefer quality over quantity.
- All media content that meets the above criteria will be published on the website www.imep.ba.
- In addition to publishing the received media content on www.imep.ba, CPCD and CAT BiH will share the published media content on their official social media channels.
- Authors of media content published on www.imep.ba during the competition should submit the following information to the email address info@imep.ba:
- name and surname of the author of the media content, date of birth, address and contact number
- Only media content that has not been previously published and that has not participated in other competitions can be submitted to this competition.
- Employees of CPCD and ORC Tuzla/CAT BiH, as well as members of their families and relatives are not allowed to participate in the competition.
After February 1, 2022, the expert jury will select the media content whose author will be awarded a cash prize in the amount of 400 BAM according to the following criteria:
- Original content is the sole property of the person providing it
- Quality, informative, educational and useful content
- Understandable and readable writing style
- Content of the call for action – invites readers to comment, start a certain activity, share their experiences, view similar texts/posts on other pages via a link, etc.
- Content may or may not be rich in visual segments – accompanying photos, links, infographics, etc.
Audience prizes in the amount of 200 BAM each will be awarded for the three media contents that win the largest number of readings via the website www.imep.ba where they will be published in the period from February 1 – 10, 2022.
By registering for the competition, the participants guarantee:
- That the published media content is their original work;
- That all personal data is accurate;
- That the participant of the competition accepts all the rules stated here.
