The conditions of participation

To participate in the youngsters' actions of the Internet-project «Dialogue of Cultures» you should register yourself up to 30 April 2015 inclusive.

If your team is already registered in some other team form of the Project (multimedia project competition, virtual map) ou should confirm your participation in actions using your Virtual Office (the link "Register in other competitions of the project").

You need to have an e-mail to participate in the Competition.

After filling in the Registration Form the team will receive an e-mail where there will be a request to confirm the application. To finish the registration click on the link.

After confirmation of the application a registration letter will be sent, where one can find a login and a password for participation in the Competition.

The registered teams submit their reports on the held actions up to 12 May 2015 inclusive using their Virtual Office on the Project's web-site.

Common requirements

• The quantity of information materials which may be submitted by a team is not limited.
• The submitted materials should correspond to the theme of Internet-project and reflect its essence.
• The usage of photos breaking the rights of third parties and of existing logos is not allowed.
• The usage of others' audio and video, drawings, photos as well as plagiarism is not allowed.
• Those information materials not corresponding to the Regulations of the international Internet-project «Dialogue of Cultures» or to its technical requirements may be rejected.

The requirements to the information materials (photo-report)

• The information materials are to be uploaded to the Project's website (using Virtual Office). You should fill in the information: the name, the place, where the photo was taken, a short commentary describing the action (not more than 600 signs).
• Admissible file format of the contest work: JPEG (*.jpg) high quality.
• The maximum size of the picture on the widest side – 1600 pixels.
• The admissible file value: not more than 5 MB.
• The usage of other’s photos, plagiarism, photo assembling, adding any elements to the photo is not allowed.
• Any logos, copyrights, signatures are not allowed.
• The reasonable processing of photos to improve their quality is allowed (red-eye reduction, colour rendition improvement, regulation of sharpness, etc.)

The requirements to the information materials (video-report)

• The information materials – video files – are to be uploaded to the Project' s website (use Virtual Office). You should also fill in the information: a name, a commentary to the video describing the action (not more than 600 signs).
• The technical requirements to the materials in video format:
  • duaration – not more than 5 minutes
  • image ratio – 4:3 or 16:9
  • the maximum video resolution – 640х480 pixels
  • the acceptable file value – not more than 40 МB.
  • the admissible file formats: asf, avi, divx, flv, mov, mp4, mpeg, wmv, xvid.
  • the admissible codecs:
    • Video: mpeg-4(divx, xvid), h264, mpeg-2, mpeg-1, vp6, wmv8, wmv9.
    • Audio: mp3, wma, aac, ogg vorbis, ac3

The participants’ works must not:

• Brake existing laws, honour and dignity, protected by law rights and interests of third parties;
• Stimulate religious, race and international discord;
• Contain scienes of violence or animals inhuman treatment;
• Be of obscene or offencive character;
• Contain explicit or implicit promotion of narcotic drugs;
• Brake the intellectual property and allied rights of third parties;
• Be of a pornographic character;
• Contain commercials in any form.