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Guidelines for submitting projects to the eLearning Awards

Please read the guidelines below before submitting a project for the eLearning Awards. As of this year, entries in the eLearning Awards competition will also be added to the Learning Resource Exchange, a pan-European federation of learning resource repositories. This will give extra visibility to your project and give you a chance to share your work with a larger community of teachers.

Before you submit your project please make sure of the following:

1. You have read and followed the rules.
2. Your project is uploaded on a website, preferably a permanent server with a permanent URL which you will submit in the competition.
3. You have a 200-word description of your project in French, English, or German. Longer descriptions can be added on your own website.
4. As your project will also be added to the Learning Resource Exchange, you will be asked to select a Creative Commons license. A selector is available during the registration process. More information about creative commons here.
5. Technical requirements:
6. If you are using Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP, Vista we recommend:
   1. Internet Explorer 7 or higher
   2. Netscape 7.2 or higher
   3. Firefox 3.0 or higher
   4. Opera 7 or higher b)
7. If you are aMac OS X user (PowerPC and Intel), we recommend:
   1. Firefox version 3.0 or higher
   2. Opera 9 or higher

   Other browsers on other Operating Systems might not offer full compatibility with the eLearning Awards 2009 Portal and registration module.

Please remember:

1. Projects are submitted to the eLearning Awards in general, not to a specific category.
2. All entries are considered for the top awards. Evaluators will identify projects suitable for special awards.
3. Projects from the following countries are eligible for all categories in the eLearning Awards 2009: EEA/EFTA/EU countries; EU candidate countries (Croatia, Turkey, FYROM); Israel and Georgia.
4. All other countries are only eligible for the ‘International Cooperation’ category.
5. In the International Cooperation category, only English language projects will be accepted.
6. For all other categories, projects can be in the following languages: (all 22 EU official languages (except Irish) + Icelandic, Turkish, Norwegian, and Hebrew).
7. Deadline for submitting your entry: 23 October 2009.

• The voting tool allow website visitor to highlight an entry they have found particularly useful and innovative.
• Please use the voting tool in a fair, safe and responsible manner.
• You can vote only up to 3 times for the same entry. After this your vote will not be taken into account (even if there is no warning messages).
• The voting tool will in no circumstances be used as a basis for judging the eLearning Awards competition. The jury panel is totally independent.