 What is the Global Junior Challenge? The Global Junior Challenge is a global award promoted by the Digital Youth Consortium, a non-profit organization founded by the Municipality of Rome and six major ICT companies. The intention of the award, dedicated to young people and to schools, is to identify and reward best practices on the use of new technologies in education and training of youngsters. An international jury selects the finalists and the winners are announced during the award ceremony that takes place in Rome, at the Campidoglio City Hall, in Autumn 2004. The Global Junior Challenge is in line whit the E-Learning Program threw from the European Commission during the summit of Lisbona. The goal of this program is the spread of the digital culture between the teachers and the young. The Global Junior Challenge represent an important occasion to increase teachers and youths concern towards ICT potential for education. The GLOBAL JUNIOR CHALLENGE is dedicated to all young people, from school children to teenagers and youth taking their first steps on the job market. It concerns cities, institutions, local authorities, businesses, NGOs, communities and individual citizens. The Global Junior Challenge concerns all those who are interested or involved in child and youth education and training, and more broadly, in helping in the construction of a more inclusive society. The deadline to submit the projects is the 30th of June 2004. The staff The Global Junior Challenge is organised by the Digital Youth Consortium, the persons involved in this event are: Romano Santoro - Digital Youth Consortium Schools Coordinator; Silvia Celani - Global Junior Challenge Project Manager; Diego Giacani - Global Junior Challenge Webmaster.
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The first edition of the Global Junior Challenge has been a great success: more than 580 projects from 49 countries have joined the competition. The Global Junior Challenge is the first world collection of best practices in the field of education and training. More than half of the projects were presented by primary and secondary schools. More than 4000 students visited the exhibition together with their teachers. The Global Junior Challenge has been a first global spontaneous monitoring of ICT in education; the emerging picture is with lots of activities and motivations in the schools. The categories of the projects during the Global Junior Challenge 2000 were:
www.gjc.it/2000/olddefault.htm. The Global Junior Challenge 2002 is mainly dedicated to "digital divide", especially among young generations. The gap between those who have access to the knowledge generated by new technologies and those who are excluded are rapidly increasing. This dangerous unbalance is reinforcing not only between countries from North and South of the world, but also among the same countries creating new form of social exclusion. This year the Global Junior Challenge award will pay special attention to projects and initiatives that tackle this problem and work to overcome the digital divide. During the second edition of the Global Junior Challenge it was very important the development of the spirit of international solidarity through an effort to twin ten Italian schools with schools from poor countries in the world. An important moment of the Global Junior Challenge 2002 was the birth of the Global Inclusion Movement against the digital divide in the world. Please visit the web site www.e-inclusionsite.org and with a free click you can support projects from poor areas of the world that participated at the Global Junior Challenge 2002. The second edition of the Global junior Challenge was a great success: more than 400 projects from 67 countries joined the competition. The categories of the projects in this second edition were:
To know the second edition of the Global Junior Challenge you can go at this web address: www.gjc.it/2002/en/index.asp. It's possible to download the booklet with the description of the finalist project, the program of the final event of the Global Junior Challenge and the program of the award ceremony in pdf format. If the Global Junior Challenge 2002 was a global award promoted by the Digital Youth Consortium, a no profit organization founded by the Municipality of Rome with six main ICT companies, and if the theme of the Global Junior Challenge 2002 was the fight against the Digital Divide and the development of the spirit of international solidarity through an effort to twin ten Italian schools with schools from poor countries in the world…. The Global Junior Challenge 2004 will be even more beautiful. The Global Junior Challenge 2004 is rich of surprises and news. The first big surprise is the introduction of a new category: Women and Equal Opportunities. The projects of this category will be aimed at realising Equal Opportunities between women and men in every sphere of their professional life. The other two main topics of the Global Junior Challenge 2004 are: the fight against the Digital Divide and the innovative use of new technologies in education and training of youngsters. Moreover, in the Global Junior Challenge 2004 we will find the twinning schools!!!!!! The categories of the projects in this edition will be:
It's also possible to watch the streaming Global Junior Challenge 2002 Video. |