New deadline for “Atoms Empowering Africa” Online Video Competition announced

By popular demand, Rosatom moved the deadline for the 6th annual competition of online

videos to February 15. The participants from the age of 18 to 35 residing in African countries are

encouraged to post their videos on Facebook, following the formal guidelines set out below and

submit their applications to the email atomsforafrica@rosatom.com or by the link to online

submission form https://tinyurl.com/RosatomAfrica.

The top three winning videos will be selected by an independent expert panel observing various

criteria including original content and creativity, overall quality of the video and content,

accuracy and relevance of technical content, as well as ability to clearly communicate the content

to an audience. The makers of the top three videos will be rewarded with an all-expenses paid

trip to Russia, where they will get the opportunity to visit several of the country’s world-

renowned tourist attractions as well as various nuclear institutions and advanced nuclear

facilities.

Jury includes representatives of nuclear enterprises such as ROSATOM, Nuclear Power Plants

Authority (NPPA, Egypt), media practitioners like Influence Communications (Egypt) and

regional nuclear NGOs Women in Nuclear South Africa (WinSA), African Young Generation in

Nuclear (AYGN) and Nuclear Corporation of South Africa (NESCA).

COMPETITION DETAILS

What are the rules? Just make a 75-second video, taking into account the formal guidelines

below:

 An individual or a team of up to 3 people may submit one application.

 Video length is up to 75 seconds.

 Both professional and smartphone videos are acceptable, but the video quality must be at

least 720p HD quality.

 Video can be live-action or animation.

 Video narration language is either English or features English subtitles.

 The name(s) of the creator(s) and the name of the university (if so) must be written in the

first frame of the video.

 The video must be published on Facebook with no restrictions on its visibility for any

Facebook visitors.

 The post must tag @RosatomAfrica and @RosatomMENA Facebook page and contain

hashtags: #Nucleardoesntwastetime, #AtomsforAfrica, #RosatomCompetition.

 No copyright violations (all videos should be compliant with Copyright and Rules for

posting Content set up on Facebook).

 No harmful or offensive behavior, discrimination of any kind. Be friendly and polite.

 Applicants must submit their applications before the deadline to the

email atomsforafrica@rosatom.com or by the link to the online submission

form https://tinyurl.com/RosatomAfrica

POTENTIAL TOPICS FOR VIDEO PRODUCTION (not limited to):

 How can nuclear technologies assist in achieving the United Nations Sustainable

Development Goals (UNSDGs) in Africa or your country?

 How can Nuclear technologies

Source: Cypress