How do I make a proposal?
1) First of all, you need to “ENROL” on the webpage. You will have to fill in the whole enrolment form (if you win, we will need these data to contact you).
It is very important to enter the user name and password fields.
2) After this, click on the SEND button.
3) Then, you will receive a confirmation e-mail to the Student’s e-mail you wrote down on the enrolment form.
4) On the top of www.destinovalencia.com/uk09 webpage we have a PARTICIPANT ACCESS, where you will have to enter the USERNAME and PASSWORD and click on the OK.
5) After this, you enter the site. Between the buttons PRESENTED PROPOSALS and WINNERS, you will see the new button: ADD A PROPOSAL. Click on it and send your proposal!
Remember: IT IS ESSENTIAL TO SEND YOUR PROPOSAL IN SPANISH.
TIPS
Imagine that we have hired you to set up an advertising campaign about the city of Valencia using some of the following guidelines:
- Valencia of the sea: a city that meets the Mediterranean.
- Finest examples of architecture and urbanism – works by masters from all eras.
- The world’s best stage – host to some of the best international events.
- An urban and responsible natural area.
- Mediterranean lifestyle, a Mediterranean feel in an avant-garde city.
Reveal your creativity!!!
On 8 power point slides (or similar pst, swf or pdf) and using all your creativity, display the sequence of your advertisement (storyboard of an advertisement) for the city of Valencia.
- Maximum of 1 proposal per student
- Each proposal must weigh under 2 megas
Conditions of entry
PARTICIPANTS All students of Spanish at secondary and sixth form level aged 14-18 can participate for FREE in the competition. Enrol on the webpage www.destinovalencia.com/uk09 and create your proposals.
HOW TO TAKE PART o take part in the competition and have a chance to win one of the prizes, every student is invited to enrol and present a proposal on www.destinovalencia.com/uk09 filling in all fields required in the “ENROL” link.
Enrolment in this competition implies you have accepted the conditions of entry.
PROPOSALS Each student can present a maximum of one proposal.
Students must present a project with a maximum of 8 slides (or similar format ppt, pst, swf or pdf). IT IS ESSENTIAL TO SEND YOUR PROPOSAL IN SPANISH. The slides must represent, in the most possible creative way, the sequence of an advertisement (storyboard of an advertisement) for the city of Valencia, following some of the next guidelines:
- Valencia of the sea: A city that meets the Mediterranean.
- Finest examples of architecture and urbanism – works by masters from all eras.
- The world’s best stage – host to some of the best international events.
- An urban and responsible natural area.
- Mediterranean lifestyle, a Mediterranean feel in an avant-garde city.
Use the Internet to research leisure, culture, sport, gastronomy and the lifestyle of the Valencian community and transfer your findings in the most creative way possible to your proposal. BECOME A CREATIVE ADVERTISER and include pictures, photographs and photo collages. You can show what you want and in whatever way you want. Use materials and costumes and send us the most fun and creative proposal…
If you don’t have power point or photoshop you can use free software to present your proposal. You will find these easily on the internet:
Software for editing and retouching photos http://www.gimp.org/.
Software for presentation in powerpoint format http://openoffice.org/.
To access photographs linked to Valencia you can use our web page
http://www.turisvalencia.es/home.aspx.
Every proposal that is correctly presented gives participants the chance to win the competition.
Before being published on the web, all presented proposals will be reviewed in order to check that all requirements have been adhered to. If it arises that a requirement is missing, the proposal will be dismissed.
Files containing content that is contrary to the rights, honour and privacy of the individual or family will not be accepted or published. Files that are contrary to the law in force will not be accepted. Valencia Tourism will disqualify without justification any proposals it considers to be unacceptable.
WORK The proposals must be created for the competition Destino Valencia. They must not have been presented to other competitions and they must be originals coming from the class presenting them.
PROPOSAL PRESENTATION The proposals can be presented by attaching the files to the “ADD A PROPOSAL” form.
The proposals must be ppt files or similar ppt, pst, swf or pdf files.
The file must not exceed 2 megabytes in weight.
CLOSING DATE Original proposals will be received from 1st May 2009 to 30st June 2009 inclusive.
JUDGES’ DECISION The decision by the panel of judges will take place on 1st July 2009. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges made up by representatives of AMELEE and the Consejería de Educación. They will take into particular consideration the originality of the presented proposal and the use of the Spanish language.
The panel of judges will consist of 3 people. If the judges’ decision is that the works presented were not of a high enough quality, the prizes may not be awarded.
The judges' decision will encompass all the works presented during the competition dates. This decision will include the choosing of the winners for the prizes.
The judges’ decision will be made public on 2nd July 2009 on the webpage www.destinovalencia.com/uk09. The winning students will be informed by e-mail. The winners allow the use of their contact details in the case of winning the competition.
Conditions of entry
IT IS ESSENTIAL TO SEND YOUR PROPOSAL IN SPANISH.
COPYRIGHT: It is understood that participants authorise, without limiting the system or medium used or the countries involved, the reproduction of the proposal without payment for rights. Competing students are fully responsible for confirming that no third party copyright exists for the presented work, as well as for all claims for rights of pictures. Competing participants also authorise the Valencia Tourism to include photos of the trip on the webpage Destino Valencia after the trip has taken place.
Participation in the competition implies total acceptance of these conditions. The solution to any incident not foreseen in these conditions will be applied by the Valencia Tourism. It will be solved using the best criteria and without any appeal. The applicant is informed that personal information provided will be incorporated into the database of the Valencia Tourism, which takes responsibility for the file. The information will be used in order to process the lodged application. The information obtained must comply; if not the application will not be processed.
The applicant authorises the Valencia Tourism to access their personal information in order to send to their email any information about the Valencia Tourism that may be of interest to them. The applicant reserves the right, at all times, to exercise access rights, correction, cancellation and opposition to the treatment of information, by email to promocion-dg@turisvalencia.es or by fax to + 34 963 606 430.
Prizes
WE HAVE 9 PRIZES FOR YOU !!!!
1) Valencia Football Club Foundation organizes its 9th summer camp. They offer three soccer courses for boys and girls from 14 to 18 years on the following dates:
- From July 12nd to July 18th.
Students will have the possibility to meet the VCF Football players and the promising youngsters.
During the sport activities, the participants are under the surveillance of the camp coaches. They’ll be assigned a group depending on ages and will share other activities like swimming pool, extra curricular activities, movies, games, club history, etc.
These prizes include maintenance, flight (*) and accommodation.
(*) Valencia Tourism will pay the flight from Dublin, Bristol, East Middlands or London to Valencia and the taxis from the Valencia airport to the Valencia facilities (round trip), too. The price of transport from the place of origin in the UK/Ireland to these airports will not be included.
If any of the 3 winners can not come to Valencia, she / he will be awarded with a Valencia FC t-shirt and a Valencia CF soccer ball.
2) Additional prizes will be offered to the next 4 winners. Each one of them will receive one Spanish course in Valencia for a week.
These prizes include flight (*) and accommodation.
(*) Valencia Tourism will pay the flight from Dublin, Bristol, East Middlands or London to Valencia. The price of transport from the place of origin in the UK/Ireland to these airports will not be included !!!
More information about these Spanish courses prizes at:
http://www.ameele.net/en/news-valencian-region/36-noticias-comunidad-valenciana/50-concurso-destino-valencia
3) Finally, the last two winners will also receive a t-shirt and a ball signed by all the players.
The VALENCIA TOURISM Convention Bureau (TVCB), is a non-profit foundation set up and co-sponsored by Valencia City Council, the Valencia Chamber of Commerce, the Valencia Trade Fair organisation, the Valencia Business Confederation and private companies from the tourist sector. Our aim is to promote the city of Valencia as a tourist destination.
http://www.turisvalencia.es/
The City of Arts and Sciences is a huge complex with culture and leisure as its focus. It contains five emblematic elements: The Hemisfèric, the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, the Oceanográfico and the Umbracle. It is a great architectural work conceived by the Valencian government to be a city in its own right,
providing the Valencian community with the biggest centre of this type in Europe. Different motivating activities take place in all the buildings, providing education with a unique companion that offers a wide range of subjects on science, culture, astronomy, biology, physics, chemistry, technology, sport, anthropology, environmental conservation, species recuperation…
Discover the City of Arts and Sciences’ range of educational activities at: www.cac.es
The Consejería de Educación is the Education Department of the Spanish Embassy in the United Kingdom and represents the Spanish Ministry of Education, Social Policy and Sports in this country.
The Consejería seeks to promote and support the teaching of Spanish language and culture through several programmes and services that are made available to schools accross the UK.
The Consejería is directly responsible for the Spanish school in London, Instituto Español Cañada Blanch, and the Agrupación de Londres which provides extracurricular lessons to Spanish children in the London area.
UK schools can benefit from:
- Opportunities for Continuing professional development (CPD). Teachers can obtain grants to follow courses in Spain, register for online courses or attend training events.
- Resources to teach Spanish at all levels and to promote Spanish during Open Days or other similar events.
- Professional advice and support to forge links with Spain.
We work hand in hand with all the relevant agencies in UK to help schools effectively teach our language.
www.mepsyd.es/exterior/uk/en/home/index.shtml
VALENCIA FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION organizes its 9th summer camp.
We offer a soccer course for boys and girls from 6 to 16 years that covers all the elements of the game; including techniques, skills and all phases of game.
All participants will be expected to take an active role in these elements.
The Valencia FC facilities are located in Paterna (8 km. away from the city).
There will be held the camp in 3 turns:
- The first one June 28th to July 4th.
- The second one July 5th to July 11th
- The third one July 12nd to July 18th.
There are 200 places in each turn.
Children will have the possibility to know the vcf football players and the promising youngsters.
During the sport activities, the participants are under the surveillance of the camp coaches. They’ll be assigned a group depending on ages and will share other activities like swimming pool, extra curricular activities, movies, games, club history, etc.
All participants will receive some presents from the club.
Monday - Tuesday -Thursday - Friday:
Morning:
- Wake up and breakfast.
- Sports activities.
- Swimming pool.
Afternoon:
- Field specific work.
- Competitions.
Wednesday: Excursion.
Saturday: Closing ceremony.
Handing-over of diplomas.
More information: www.fundacionvalenciacf.org
Amelee Spanish Schools
Our association, a member of F.E.D.E.L.E. (Spanish Federation of Schools of Spanish as a Foreign Language), was created in 2002 with the aim of bringing together the leading schools of Spanish in the Valencian Region to commit to certain requirements to certify the quality of our services.
All A M E E L E members are accredited by the Cervantes Institute, a guarantee for anyone wishing to study Spanish at our schools.
We are committed to the idea that our schools, at locations throughout Castellón, Valencia and Alicante, must offer the best image of Spanish language and culture along with the teaching methods and complementary services necessary to ensure that our students' stay in the Valencian Region is an enriching experience in both cultural and personal terms.
Our universal language together with our Mediterranean character, gastronomy, wealth of historical culture and the privileged scenery and climate of our location, make the Valencian Region the perfect place to learn Spanish.
Visit the Valencian Region and find out for yourself!
http://www.ameele.net/en
