European Economic and Social Committee
Communication Department
Online Information Unit
The European Economic and Social Committee's Video Challenge 2013
Terms and Conditions
Description of the contest
The European Economic and Social Committee would like to invite you to
participate in the 2013 Video Challenge. This annual challenge encourages
video creativity and the use of social networking, within youth across the 28
member states in Europe (including Croatia who will be joining the EU in
2013). Entry into the challenge is free and participants can submit their video
URL on the dedicated website between 15/10/2012 and 20/01/2013.The public
voting will take place between 25/01/2013 and 04/02/2013 ending at noon.
Following this, the jury will decide on the top three finalists. The prizes for the
1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will be awarded at a ceremony held in Brussels
on March 20th 2013.
Be creative and show us what Europe means to you! Since the year 2013 has
been designated as the year of “European citizens”, it is also the theme of this
year’s edition. What do you think it means to be European? As a European
citizen what are your rights and values? What about democracy, freedom and
exchange? How do you contribute and share? Tell us in your video!
Eligibility
To participate in the EESC video competition you must be:
A citizen of the European Union (the 27 Member States and Croatia who will
be joining the EU in July 2013)
Aged 18-30
An amateur production team (e.g. students)
EU staff, Members and employees of EESC and their immediate family are not
eligible to enter the contest.
* An amateur is defined as a person who has not been paid for any video they
have ever created, is not currently and has not yet been employed as an
employee or freelancer to produce video or employed in any other form by a
production company The EESC reserves the right to disqualify entries
connected to any direct or indirect financial benefit of any of the team
members.
Video requirements
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The video must be between 30 seconds to 2 minutes in length.
The format should be available in Standard Definition (720×576 pixels
preferably in 16.9) or High Definition (1280 x 720 px or above).
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 The video should not have inappropriate contents, language or imagery (no
violence, racist comments, pornographic or personal attacks on people or
organizations etc.).
 Any EU language can be used in the video (if any) however sub-titles in
English will then be necessary in order to guarantee wide understanding and
equal opportunities.
 The video should not have been created more than 6 months prior to the start
date of the challenge (the start date of the challenge is 15/10/2012).
The production team should grant the consent of all persons appearing in the video
(protection of privacy) and is solely responsible for consequences. "If minors appear in
the video, that consent should be signed by parents or legal tutors."
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Copyrights rules
 The video must be original work, must not have already won an award and must
not infringe the copyright, trademark, privacy and proprietary rights of any
person or entity.
 The video should not contain any product placement and therefore no explicit
company references or focus on logos, should be made. The video also
should not promote any brand, product or service. The production team must
ensure covering/blurring any such company references or logos whenever
possible (e.g objects, accessories, clothes) or not focusing on any signs
encountered while outdoors (names of stores, advertisements etc.). Please
note that not all cases can be listed here and that EESC reserves the right to
disqualify an entry in case of doubt over product placement.
 The production team is solely responsible for obtaining all consent, prior to
submitting your video.
 Music used in the video must be original and/or cleared for copyright to be
posted on public websites or be used in public events.
 The production team keeps the moral rights for the original work, but accepts
to transfer all economic rights (copyright) of the work to the EESC. The
participants to this video challenge thus grant the EESC a permission to
adapt, edit, modify, format, reproduce, translate, archive, use for public
performance, broadcast and communicate to the public their videos. The
EESC has the right to use and re-use the video in different media (web, social
media etc.) for non-commercial purposes. The EESC has also the right to
make the videos publicly accessible and available through offline and/or online
archives within all the EU Institutions for non-commercial purposes
* In the case that the work is found to have infringed on any copyright law, the
production team is solely responsible.
Winner selection
 Videos must be first posted on an online video channel (e.g. Youtube,
Dailymotion, Vimeo etc.).
 Submissions must include an English text description, no more than
300 words in length, of the content highlighted in the video.
 The video can then be submitted to the 2013 video challenge on the
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EESC's website by including the team details, video URL and agreeing
to the terms and conditions.
All submitted videos will be reviewed to ensure that they comply with
the competition requirements (length, format and appropriateness).
Videos that do not comply will be eliminated.
Videos that meet the requirements will be published on the EESC's
dedicated video challenge webpage.
The public will then be able to vote for their favourite video (only one
vote per person).
Results from the public vote will determine the top 10 videos.
A panel of judges will make their selection of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place
winners. This decision will be based on the video’s relation to the
theme, its creativity and overall quality.
Prizes
The winners will be notified by e-mail. The winners will receive respectively:
1st prize: € 5,000
2nd prize: € 3,000
3rd prize: € 2,000