Let's change the European Investment Bank actively
and artfully!
Every year the EIB lends more than any other international financial
institution. It lends primarily to European Union states but overall it
has a current portfolio of investments in more than 120 countries, with
roughly 17 percent of these investments going to new EU Member States
and places such as South Africa, Asia, the Balkans, the Middle East, and
Latin America.
In view of the importance of the EIB's financial role we are challenging
the 'house Bank' of the EU to become a positive European source for the
public funding of public benefits worldwide. We would like to see an EIB
which is fully accountable to the public and transparent in all of its
operations. We envision the EIB lending only for environmentally and socially
sustainable projects, based on clear policies, standards and rules, both
inside and outside the EU, which can proudly state that it supports only
projects that enjoy the consent of all affected communities.
As a part of civil society's call to concerned citizens and European
policy-makers to join efforts to make the EIB an institution that supports
people and the environment, we invite artists from Central and Eastern
European countries to participate in a social poster contest entitled
Public Funds for Public Benefits.
Awards - Awards - Awards - Awards
There will be one first prize award of 1000 Euros and two runners-up awards
of 200 Euros. An international jury will decide the prize-winners. The jury
is composed of Professor Piotr Kunce, professional artist and the Head of
Poster Art Studio at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, representing
the media, Jane MacKenzie of the UK's renowned satirical magazine Private
Eye, and Tomasz Terlecki, the Executive Director of CEE Bankwatch Network.
You can also vote for the best project
We would also like to give internet users the opportunity to vote for
the best project. Thus there will be a gallery featuring all submitted
projects on our website to allow the public to vote for their favourite
entry. The most popular design as voted publicly and transparently by
our web audience will also receive a prize worth 200 Euros.
Victory will establish you as a real bankwatcher
Not only is there the promise of financial reward by participating in
the contest, but you could also be the creator of the posters promoting
our campaign. Our intention is also to prepare a street-exhibition featuring
some of the submitted projects, which would be shown in Brussels and Luxembourg
around the time of the EIB's Annual Meeting in June later this year. So
the projects will very much stay alive after the contest and help to make
the campaign visible.
The statute of the contest
The aim and the topic of the contest:
To gather original poster designs in A1 format (594mmx841mm) promoting the
EIB reform campaign of CEE Bankwatch Network. The contest serves to widen
the public's knowledge about a public financial institution, the EIB, and
its imperfect way of functioning and also to encourage civil society to
participate in the process of monitoring the EIB's activities.
Organizer:
CEE Bankwatch Network
Jicinska 8
130 00 Prague 3
Czech Republic
Duration of the contest:
March 1, 2005 - May 30, 2005
The deadline for sending competitive works:
April 25, 2005 (on this day we stop accepting works sent by mail or submitted
by person)
The address for sending competitive works:
CEE Bankwatch Network
Czackiego 3A
r. 29, 70-216 Szczecin
Poland
with the sub-heading CONTEST
The founder of the prize:
CEE Bankwatch Network
The territory of the contest:
Belorussia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia,
Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia
and Montenegro, Slovak Republic, Ukraine.
Requirements of the application and participation:
- A competitive project entry can be sent by individuals;
- Every participant can make a maximum of three variations on the theme;
- Printouts in A3 format should be glued to stiff board. On the board's
reverse in the upper right-hand corner, there should be an original
password;
- 4. Projects have to be sent in two printed specimens with an electronic
CD version ( 1:1 size, 300 dpi resolution, TIFF);
- Submitted projects have to be under the ownership of the senders,
must not have been publicized previously and must not infringe upon
another author's rights;
- Submitted projects will not be returned and fall under the ownership
of the organizers;
- Senders pay shipping costs;
- It is neccessary for the projects to be accompanied by a completed
application from the website in an enclosed envelope;
- It is neccessary to put an original password on the envelope, the
CD and the reverse of every project speciment;
- It is not permitted for the organizers and all persons engaged in
preparing the contest to take part in the contest;
- Incomplete applications will not be taken into account;
- Participation in the contest indicates acceptance of the statute and
agreement on free project exposure after the contest;
- The first-prize winner will also be obliged to make possible minor
changes suggested by the jury.
Jury:
- Jane MacKenzie, London, Private Eye;
- Professor Piotr Kunce, Cracow the Head of Poster Art Studio
at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow;
- Tomasz Terlecki, Executive Director, CEE Bankwatch Network;
The jury will convene in order to choose the best project in April 2005
in Cracow. Following this meeting, an announcement will be made.
The decision of the jury is final. The first prize is anticipated to be
EUR 1000. There are also two second prizes equaling EUR 200 and a so called
audience prize, which is also for EUR 200.
We would also like to give our web audience the opportunity to vote for
the best project. That is why we are going to establish a gallery of all
sent projects on the webpage to allow visitors to choose their favourite.
The best project, chosen publicly and transparently, will be awarded with
the audience price of EUR 200 .
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