Volvo Adventure - Supporting environmental education, practical projects and action. In partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The Volvo Adventure Competition
WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?
The Volvo Adventure - in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme - is an educational programme that rewards environmental activities and the decision-makers of the future. To enter, you form a team of 2 to 5 members aged 13 to 16 (at competition opening - July 1st 2011). Perform an environmental project in your local community & submit the project via our online submission tool before the competition deadline, January 31st 2012.
Projects are judged and the best projects are selected for an all expenses paid trip to Göteborg, Sweden where they can win: 1st place = 10,000 USD, 2nd = 6,000 USD and 3rd = 4,000 USD.
WHAT'S NEW?
Project submission for 2012 is now closed, watch this space for announcements about finalists. The December newsletter is available here. Find out what a Volvo Adventure Final is like here.
FOR FULL ACCESS AND INFORMATION
You can register by clicking HERE to gain access to the website.
Competition guidelines are available via the following links:
ARABIC - CHINESE - ENGLISH - FRENCH - GERMAN
PORTUGUESE - JAPANESE - RUSSIAN - SPANISH - SWEDISH - SWAHILI
FINALISTS AND WINNERS
Click a year to view previous years finalists and winners projects and annoucements: 2011 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005
PROJECT GALLERIES
Click a year to view all entrants projects: 2012 - 2011 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006
FILMS AND SLIDESHOWS
Click a year and click SLIDESHOW or FILM below. From now on, YouTube will hold filmed content here

Bob the Bunny's Cartoon Competition
WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?
Too young to enter the Volvo Adventure ? Bob the Bunny's competition is aimed at younger adventurers aged between 10 to 12 years old (at the competition opening - July 1st 2011)
To enter, you form a team of 1 to 3 members, identify a local environmental issue and create an A4 cartoon strip illustrating the issue and actions that you might take to solve it. The submissions should be sent to us before the competition deadline of 24:00 CET on February 29th 2012.

Next years winning team will be sent to the 2012 Volvo Adventure final. See the registration details below for more information.

WHAT'S NEW?
See Bob The Bunny's Cartoon competition winners receiving their awards here.The 2011 cartoon book is now available here (40 Mb). The new competition is accepting your cartoon entries now.
FOR FULL ACCESS AND INFORMATION
Before registering, perhaps you'd like to take Bob's Environmental Journey HERE and explore important issues. Teachers may want to look at the teacher briefing HERE. It includes downloadable versions of the Environment Journey in English and Spanish (Argentina) .zip files, to be used as standalone on a PC with no internet connection.

Register to gain access to the website and get the entry form HERE.
CURRENT ENTRIES
All of the 2011 entries are visible here. Click below and use the left/right/up/down cursor keys to browse cartoons.
Click IMAGE CONTROLS to find the image movement / zoom control keys.

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United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014, DESD)

The Decade aims to integrate the values inherent in sustainable development into all aspects of learning to encourage changes in behaviour which will enable a more viable and fairer society for everyone.
(www.unesco.org/education/desd)