Participation in the Competition

To be a participant of the Competition you need to register yourself till the 22d of November 2013 year inclusive.

If your team is already registered in some other team competition of the Project (actions "Children Enlighten the World"), just confirm your participation in the Multimedia project Competition using your Virtual Office (the link "Register in the other Project competitions").

To participate in the Competition you need to have an e-mail address.

After you fill in the registration form, your team will be sent an e-mail, containing a request to confirm your application. To finish the registration you should click on the link, which will be in the e-mail.

After the confirmation of the application you'll be sent an e-mail, giving you the information about your finished registration, your password and login for participation in the Competition.

Then your team, being a registered team-participant of the Project should submit its works till the 22d of November 2013 year inclusive using the team's Virtual Office which is on the web-site of the Project.

The works, which do not satisfy the International Internet-project "Friendship Bridges" regulations, and technical Competition requirements, can be rejected by the Organizing Committee.

The common requirements to the works of all topics

  1. The quantity of works which may be submitted by a team is not restricted.
  2. The work should satisfy the Competition topic and reflect its essence.
  3. The usage of photos injuring the third persons' rights and the usage of the existing logos injuring the intellectual property rights is not allowed.
  4. The usage of other's audio- and video-fragments, drawings, photos and plagiarism are not allowed.
  5. The works, which do not satisfy the International Internet-project "Friendship Bridges" regulations, and technical Competition requirements, can be rejected by the Organizing Committee.
  6. The competition works  – video files – are to be downloaded to the site of the Project (with the help of the Virtual Office). You should also fill in some information about each competition work – write a short commentary on it (not more than 600 signs).
  7. The technical requirements to video files:
    1. duration – not more than a minute
    2. video aspect ratio – 4:3 or 16:9
    3. the maximum video resolution – 640х480 pixels
    4. the acceptable size – not more than 40 MB.
    5. the acceptable file formats: asf, avi, divx, flv, mov, mp4, mpeg, wmv, xvid.
    6. The acceptable video codecs:
      1. Video: mpeg-4(divx, xvid), h264, mpeg-2, mpeg-1, vp6, wmv8, wmv9.
      2. Аudio: mp3, wma, aac, ogg vorbis, ac3

The participants' works must not

  • brake the existing laws, injure the other people's honor, dignity and rights protected by law;
  • provoke religious-, race- and nationality-difference conflicts;
  • contain scenes of violence or cruelty to animals;
  • be of offensive or obscene character;
  • contain explicit or implicit drugs advertisement;
  • injure copyrights;
  • be of a pornographic character;
  • contain any commercials.