Your World Video Competition Leaflet
Your World Video Competition Leaflet
Your World Video Competition Leaflet
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Citizenship
Digital literacy
Student leadership
'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...'
16 December 2022 Deadline for British Council staff to review received registration
details and ensure all is in order and confirm to schools.
04 March 2023 Deadline for students to submit their live action video or
animated style video entries to schools.
11 March 2023 Deadline for schools to submit their winning entry to the
British Council.
April 2023 Global winner announced during global Facebook live event.
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“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:
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.
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.
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