The conditions of participation

The participation in the competition is individual.

To participate in the Competition you should register yourself up to 17 April 2015 12:00 (msk).

If you are already registered in some other individual competition of the Project «Dialogue of Cultures»-2015 (drawing competition), you should confirm your participation in the photo competition 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 participant 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 participants submit their works up to 17 April 2015 17:00 (msk) inclusive using their Virtual Office on the Project's web-site.

Work requirements

1. The contest works must be made by a participant individually (the team works are not accepted) and singly.
2. The quantity of works which may be submitted by a participant is not limited.
3. The contest works are to be uploaded to the Project's website. You should fill in the information about each contest photograph: the title(not more than 80 signs) and short description (not more than 2000 signs).
4. Admissible file format of the contest work: JPEG (*.jpg) high quality.
5. The maximum size of the picture on the widest side – 1600 pixels.
6. The admissible file value: not more than 5 MB.
7. The submitted works should correspond to the theme and reflect its essence.
8. The usage of other’s photos, plagiarism, photo assembling, adding any elements to the photo is not allowed.
9. Any logos, copyrights, signatures are not allowed.
10. The reasonable processing of photos to improve their quality is allowed (red-eye reduction, colour rendition improvement, regulation of sharpness, etc.)
11. Those works not corresponding to the Regulations of the international Internet-project «Dialogue of Cultures» or to its technical requirements may be rejected.

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.