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British Council

Partner Schools

Your World
Video Competition
YOUR LIVES, IN YOUR COMMUNITY,
FOR THE WORLD TO SEE
Introduction
We are excited to invite your students to participate in the global British
Council Partner Schools video competition - Your World. The competition
is open to all students who take UK qualifications, IGCSE, O and A-Level
with the British Council.

This is a fantastic opportunity for students from around the world to use
their creativity and connect with each other while providing a window into
their unique lives, environments and experiences. Students need to create
a three-minute video to demonstrate a social action project.

Participating in the Your World video competition means an opportunity


for Partner School students to showcase their talents and to compete
with other students from all over the world.

Competition theme
The theme for the 2022-23 Your World video competition is Good Health
and Well-being linking directly to the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goal number 3.

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Exploring the theme
As the world recovers from a global pandemic, the lasting effect it has had on health and wellbeing is
still being felt. This year's theme is a chance to reflect and address how our communities can tackle this.
There is a shortage of health workers in many regions and health workers have been stretched to their
limits by the pandemic. It is estimated that per 10,000 people in Northern America there are 150 nurses
and midwives. For the same number of people in Sub-Saharan Africa it is estimated there are only 10
nurses and midwives.

If current trends continue, only 39 per cent to 63 per cent of the global population will be covered by
essential health services by 2030. Illness and death from communicable diseases is therefore expected
to spike. In addition to this there has been a surge in mental health issues around the world.

To overcome these challenges, we need to first promote and protect our own health, raise awareness in
our community about the importance of good health, healthy lifestyles and then find solutions to
pressing health concerns described above. To do this we need to innovate through ideas that will help
us address these. The Your World Video Competition is the perfect place to start.

By choosing to ensure healthy lives and promoting well-being we will build prosperous societies. For
instance, by solving the shortage of medical staff, whether through recruitment, training, retention or
other strategies, there will be greater access to healthcare for populations, leading to improved health
throughout the community.

Another example may be that by establishing ways to promote mental wellbeing with the community
through a structured plan, the burden on the health sector could be reduced and experts could be
developed within the field.

Therefore, we need to creatively rethink our view of health and well-being. Your social action project
should aim to improve health and well-being, through actions that deal with an issue for a community of
your choice, highlighting an issue and its impacts on an identified community. Your identified community
could be the local community or even your school community.

Your social action project could explore one of the following ideas:

Raising awareness in your community about the importance of good health and healthy
lifestyles.

Improving mental health through creating support groups.

Lowering the transmission rates of diseases.

Ensuring communities recover from healthcare disruptions from Covid-19, including


recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce.

Or any other idea that looks at improving health and well-being of a community, big or small including
your school over the long term.

In completing the project, you might want to speak to experts or ministers in the fields your project is
exploring. Experts might also be persuaded to look at ideas in more depth.

Your World Video Competition 02


Develop a vision for yourself, your local community,
and your country. Lights, camera, action!

Competition guidelines
Due to the rapidly evolving Covid-19 situation across countries, teams have the choice of producing
either a live action video or animated style video. The aim is to give as much flexibility as possible in the
type of video that teams can produce according to the situation. Teams need to keep Partner Schools
informed about plans around the video and ensure that they keep within both school and national
guidelines throughout the making of the video.

Assess local needs


The live action video or animated style video should highlight how the issues have been identified, how
it is relevant to building a brighter future within a defined community and, most importantly, how
strongly the public message has been conveyed through this video. In addition to identifying a key area,
students in their teams should suggest possible solutions for the highlighted issues in their video. The
community could be their country, town or city, school or any other group of people, large or small.

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Students need to think about the following questions when planning their three minute live action video
or animated style video:

Have local needs been identified accurately?

Do the outcomes of the assessment justify the proposed idea?

Is the issue a priority for the target community?

How innovative or unique is the live action video or animated style video?

Feasibility
The video needs to demonstrate that the issue highlighted is real and suggestions/recommendations
achievable in its approach and intended impact.

Impact
The video needs to present the impact well and demonstrate the positive changes it would bring about
if put into action and that community considerations have been taken into account. The aim of the
impact should be long-term.

Dos and Don’ts


Dos
Students should feel free to interpret the theme in any way they want.

The video should be vibrant and interesting to watch and ideally include people from the
community being described.

Students should always keep in mind that students and other people from very different
cultures will be watching. Students should let them see something that really captures the
essence of their community.

Don’ts
Students should not make a short documentary about a distant topic – for example, the
charitable work of Bill Gates unless this work directly impacts their own community.

In this competition, Good Health and Well-being refers to our present-day and future lives.
Students shouldn’t make a video about figures from history.

Students should not include their names within the video or video title.

Who is it for?
The Your World video competition is open for students aged between 14 and 17.

Each school can submit one entry in the age category above. Students must work in groups – as this is
a collaborative effort – in teams of between three to five students. Students can also seek the advice
and support of teachers in their school in producing this three-minute live action video or animated
style video.

Your World Video Competition 04


Benefits of participating in this global
competition:
Cross curricular focus
The theme of Good Health and Well-being can be related to many of the subjects that students study at
school such as science, physical education, business studies and global studies. Students can draw
upon their knowledge of these subjects to produce a truly exceptional live action video or animated
style video that highlights their skills and learning while making it.

Core skills development


By participating in this competition students will develop the following essentials skills which will enable
them to grow into well-rounded and creative citizens, ready to engage with job markets and shape the
future for themselves and future generations.

Critical thinking and problem solving

Collaboration and communication

Creativity and imagination

Citizenship

Digital literacy

Student leadership

Applications for overseas studies


It is increasingly common for students to demonstrate activities they are doing outside of the classroom
in support of their applications. This competition will demonstrate a commitment on behalf of students
to developing themselves proactively in their free time and their awareness about social and
environmental issues around them.

'I encourage other Partner Schools to participate in the competition. This is because the rationale
behind the competition is not just to win awards but to challenge creative abilities of students to
showcase their talents and compete with their peers from around the world to find solutions...'

Mrs Sarah Freda Adei - Coordinator, Your World Competition


Akosombo International School – Global winner of Your World 21-22
Key dates
Date Action

01 September 2022 Launch

British Council to:


send communication to schools.
answer enquiries from schools about the competition.

Partner Schools to:


Promote the competition to students and parents.
Decide whether to take part in the competition or not.

22 October 2022 Deadline for schools to sign up for participation in the


competition through sending a return e-mail to your
British Council Relationship Manager.

09 December 2022 Deadline for schools to submit (all) their students’


registration details to the British Council.

16 December 2022 Deadline for British Council staff to review received registration
details and ensure all is in order and confirm to schools.

February 2023 Schools Now! Conference: Reminders to take part in the


Your World competition and display of 2021 Your World entries.

04 March 2023 Deadline for students to submit their live action video or
animated style video entries to schools.

What will they be doing:


Students, via their schools, submit live action video or
animated style video content as an mp4 file.

11 March 2023 Deadline for schools to submit their winning entry to the
British Council.

How it will work:


Schools will assign an internal judging panel.

Schools’ internal judging panels will decide on the


winning live action video or animated style video.

Schools to upload the winners’ live action video or


animated style video to Vimeo.

April 2023 National and regional winners announced.

April 2023 Global winner announced during global Facebook live event.

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Safeguarding
The British Council is committed to:
Valuing, respecting, and listening to children and adults, maintaining confidentiality, and
acting proportionately.

Maintaining strong protection systems, procedures and minimising and managing situations
where abuse could occur through planning, risk assessment and safeguarding systems.

Sharing safeguarding best practice and information regarding safeguarding concerns with
relevant parties and involving children and adults where appropriate.

Actively investigating suspected abuse.

It’s important that students know how to report any concerns they may have about posting online.
It is important that measures are taken to minimise risk to students by staying safe online.

Vimeo set up steps


Step 1: Prepare your live action video or animated style video file.
Step 2: Log into “Your Account”. If you don’t already have an account, create a new one at
(https://vimeo.com/).
Step 3: Click on the “Upload” button in the upper right corner.
Step 4: You’ll be directed to the “Upload Page”.
Step 5: Select your file.
Step 6: Select your “Privacy Settings” (public/download access and so on).
Step 7: Upload
Step 8: Processing time: wait for the file to be uploaded.

https://vimeo.com/help/guidelines/parentalguidelines/Vimeo Privacy

“Working on this video taught us 21st century skills of collaboration, problem-solving, creativity and
digital literacy. In addition, we learned hard work and above all, perseverance and resilience.”
Global winner, Your World 2021-22 - Akosombo International School, Ghana

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Judging criteria
Students have to submit a live action video or animated style video, 3-minutes long, focused on their
world as they experience it. There is room for a great deal of creativity. We are looking for live action
video or animated style video of imagination and originality that will appeal to other students from a
very different country.

The video should have been made specifically for this competition. Production quality is not included in
our judging criteria. Criteria of selection will be based on:

Content: the originality of the idea.


Structure: the way the idea is organised, laid out and presented.
Visual design: the look and feel of the live action video or animated style video.
Overall experience: message comprehension, impact on audience.
Cultural sensitivity: presentation takes into account sensitivities of other cultures, countries and regions and
must not contain content that others might interpret as offensive.
The live action video or animated style video should focus on the impact on the community and how strongly
the public message is conveyed. The video must avoid political issues.

Prizes
All students who take part in the competition will receive a Certificate of Participation.

Country winners will be entered into regional and global finals to decide global winners. The British
Council is offering a range of exciting prizes to recognise the efforts and success of the global winning
team and the school.

Exciting global prizes include:


Film Course: The winning team will receive an online film course delivered by an internationally
recognised film school from the UK.

iPads: Each member of the winning team will receive their own iPad.

Trophy: The global winners will be awarded a trophy for their school. There will also be an exclusive
opportunity to be hosted on our Facebook live event to celebrate the success of the winning Partner
School and their students in the Your World video competition 2022-23.

Rules and regulations


In order to ensure a smooth, transparent and fair delivery of this competition, please refer to the terms
and conditions document which you need to read carefully and sign before you take part.

For further information and enquiries, please visit


https://www.britishcouncil.org/exam/partner-schools/your-world
or contact your local British Council office.

We very much hope that you will encourage your students to


take part and welcome you to the Your World video competition!

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