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Many Languages, One World

2017 Student Essay Contest and Global Youth Forum

Contest Rules

Of cial Contest Rules

Many Languages, One World 2017 Student Essay Contest and Global
Youth Forum
The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), in collaboration with ELS
Educational Services, Inc., (ELS) invites students, 18 years and older,
who are enrolled in a full-time course of study at a college or university,
to participate in the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest.

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ESSAY TOPIC:The essay should discuss global citizenship and cultural

understanding, and the role that multilingual ability can play in fostering
these. The essay should reect the students personal, academic,
cultural and national context.

ENTRY RULES:Essays of up to 2,000 words in length must be written in

one of the six ofcial languages of the United Nations-Arabic, Chinese,
English, French, Russian or Spanish.

Language Eligibility:
The essay must be written in a language you have learned, or are
currently learning, AFTER COMPLETING your secondary school
studies.
The essay can be written in a language that you learned as a
subject during your pre-university schooling, at a language institute,
or at university.
The essay cannot be written in your rst language, or a language
you speak at home, or grew up speaking.
If you attended bilingual primary and/or secondary schools, your
essay cannot be written in those languages of instruction.
If you attended a half-year to year-long school or government
sponsored exchange program where one of the 6 languages was
spoken, your essay cannot be written in that language.
In order to participate, a faculty member or authorized representative of
your college or university is required to complete and submit a referral
form (/en/FacultyForm)attesting that:

1. You are a current full-time student at the institution, in good

standing,
2. Your essay was written in accordance with the Language Eligibility
rules above,
3. The essay is your original, unaided work.

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To enter the contest, you must complete the student entry form and
upload your essay in the space at the bottom of that form. Essays must
be uploaded in MS Word format by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
on Thursday, 16 March, 2017. We will not accept essays via email. Only
one essay will be accepted per student.

A total of sixty contest winners will be selected through a rigorous three-

stage process; ten winners in each of the six ofcial languages of the
United Nations. These winners will be invited to the United States to
participate in a series of events between 15-26 July, 2017. These events
will include a Global Youth Forum on Transforming our World: the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development in the context of multilingualism,
cultural diversity and global citizenship, and the opportunity to present
their views at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The event
at the United Nations will be preceded by a preparatory conference
sponsored and arranged by ELS Educational Services, Inc.

During the preparatory conference, winners will work with the students
in their language group to prepare action plans toward the realization of
the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. These
plans will be presented at the Global Youth Forum at United Nations
Headquarters.

Please note that winners will not be reading or presenting the text of
their essays at this event.

ELS will pay for round-trip economy class airfares in carriers of its
choosing between the airport nearest to the winners home city and the
site of the preparatory conference, and be responsible for the winners
travel, room and meals for the duration of the conference (7-12 days).
Sightseeing and tourism opportunities will also be arranged by ELS. No
extensions of stay or early arrivals will be possible. Winners are
responsible for all documentation relating to their journey, including
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passports and visas and the costs related to these, as well as

appropriate medical insurance for their journey and temporary stay in
the United States. ELS will provide each winning student with a basic
travel and accident insurance policy, for which the premium will be paid
by ELS.

Winners will be given certicates of participation by ELS, signifying that

they have participated in the Global Youth Forum arranged in
cooperation with the United Nations Academic Impact.

As a condition of participation, winners will agree to waive liability for

both ELS and the United Nations specifying that they understand that
ELS is the organizer and agreeing to hold both ELS and the United
Nations harmless for any injury or liability which might occur during the
conference or at the United Nations.

On the student entry form, participants will have to acknowledge that

they have read, understood and agree to accept the Indemnication and
Limitation of Liability, and Information Release statements below:

INDEMNIFICATION AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

By entering the contest, each entrant agrees to indemnify, release and

hold harmless ELS Educational Services, Inc., the United Nations and all
of their respective parent, afliate and subsidiary companies,
administrators, ofcers, directors, employees, representatives and
agents (collectively, the RELEASEES), from any liability, damages,
losses or injury of any kind resulting in whole or in part, directly or
indirectly, from that entrants participation in the contest, including but
not limited to, property damage, personal injury or death which may
result from or occur in connection with, preparation for, travel to and/or
participation in the contest or from the acceptance, possession, or use
or misuse of any prize awarded or participation in any prize-related
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activity and for any claims based on publicity rights, defamation or

invasion of privacy and prize delivery. RELEASEES do not make any
warranties, express or implied, as to the condition, tness or
merchantability of any prize. RELEASEES disclaim any liability for
damage to any computer system resulting from access to or the
download of information or materials connected with the contest.

For the avoidance of doubt, this limitation of liability is a comprehensive

limitation of liability that applies to all damages of any kind, including
(without limitation) compensatory, direct, indirect, or consequential
damages; loss of data, income, or prot; loss or damage to property;
and claims of third parties. Entrants agree that RELEASEES have not
made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty,
representation, or guarantee, statutory, express or implied (including but
not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, title, and tness
for a particular purpose), in fact or in law, relative to the contest or the
prize awarded. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
RELEASEES do not make any express or implied warranties or
representations with respect to any promotional website and
RELEASEES shall not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions
or errors related thereto.

RELEASEES are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, illegible,

inaccurate, delayed, garbled, damaged, stolen or misdirected
submissions, or problems of any kind, whether mechanical, human or
electronic. RELEASEES are not responsible for technical, hardware or
software malfunctions, telephone failures of any kind, lost or
unavailable network connections, inability to access a website, inability
to submit an entry, or fraud, incomplete, garbled, or delayed computer
transmissions or inaccurate transcription of entry information, whether
caused by RELEASEES, users or by any of the equipment or
programming associated with or utilized in the contest or by any
technical or human error which may occur in the processing of

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submissions which may damage a users system or limit an entrants

ability to participate in the contest. RELEASEES are not responsible for
late, lost, incomplete, illegible, damaged or misdirected entries or mail.

INFORMATION RELEASE

I understand that while I retain the rights to my essay, by participating in

Many Languages, One World Essay Contest, Conference and Global
Youth Forum, I grant ELS and the UN (RELEASEES) a worldwide,
exclusive, royalty-free, and irrevocable license to use the content of the
essays in whole or in part. In addition, I grant ELS permission to
photograph, record, and videotape all activities during the conference
and Global Youth Forum. These recordings and photographs will
become the property of ELS for didactic use at their discretion, in all
media, in perpetuity, to promote multilingualism and global
understanding. I also grant the United Nations permission to
photograph, record, and videotape all activities during the conference.
These recordings and photographs will become the property of the
United Nations.

For the avoidance of doubt, I hereby irrevocably grant RELEASEES

perpetually, exclusively, for all media throughout the world (including,
but not limited to, print, non-theatrical, audio, video, lm, CD, Internet and
any other electronic medium presently in existence or invented in the
future), the right to use and incorporate (alone or together with other
materials), in whole or in part, recordings, photographs, and/or images
made of me or submitted by me to RELEASEES, my name, voice or
likeness (Image), in written, audio, video or still photography format, in
television advertising, radio advertising, press advertising, promotional
material, and any and all internal documents, including but not limited to
annual reports, public relations displays and other publications,
including website publications, without payment or any other
consideration. I acknowledge RELEASEES right to discontinue use of

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my Image without notice and/or to edit or treat my Image at its

discretion. I also acknowledge that RELEASEES may choose not to use
my Image at this time, but may do so at its own discretion at a later
date.

I hereby agree that I will not bring or consent to others bringing claim or
action against RELEASEES on the grounds that my Image, or the manner
in which my Image is/are used, is defamatory, reects adversely on me,
violates any other right whatsoever, including, without limitation, rights
of privacy and publicity.

I hereby release RELEASEES from and against any and all claims,
demands, actions, causes of action, suits, costs, expenses, liabilities
and damages (Claims) whatsoever that I may hereafter have against
any or all of them in connection with my Image.

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