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This year’s Green Week will focus on biodiversity.  Part of the event is the annual Green Week School Competition, which encourages young people from all EU Member States, candidate and EFTA countries to learn about environmental issues and express themselves artistically. 

Younger children can enter the competition with drawings and paintings illustrating their opinions about biodiversity while older pupils are invited to submit short digital videos on the same theme. The top three winners of each category will be invited to Brussels for the awards ceremony during Green Week. A selection of the best entries in each category will be presented at the conference. Deadline for entries is 25 March. 

The competition is open to all schools in the EU, candidate and EFTA countries. There will be two categories in the 2006 school competition: Artwork – paintings and drawings: for individual pupils aged 5-10 
Digital videos: for teams of up to four students aged 11-16. 

Entries may only be submitted with the support of a school. Entries must be scanned, or created digitally, and sent to the Environment Directorate-General via the entry forms on the Green Week School Competition website accessible in 20 languages: www.greenweek2006.eun.org  

Teachers are encouraged to make the competition part of the class activity and the website will offer some ideas and support. A network of expert teachers in the field of environmental education from all over Europe will assist the European Commission in carrying out the judging. The deadline for both categories is 25 March 2006.