Rules
Schools, educational institutions and organisations in Europe carrying out primary, secondary or teacher training education are eligible for the eLearning Awards.
Entries must be submitted via the eLearning Awards website on or before 6 November 2006.
Projects created by individual teachers are eligible. However, all entries must be associated with a school or other eligible institution. Prize money can only be transferred to the account of the school or institution, which is also responsible for its disbursement. An invitation to the award ceremony is sent to the person who submits a winning project. It is however possible to nominate a different representative.
National educational content providers and similar, or projects run by such institutions/organisations are not eligible. Projects that were awarded eLearning Awards in previous years, projects that are part of European Schoolnet (EUN) are also not eligible.
Projects that have won other awards or grants (e.g. Comenius), or have benefitted from sponsorship, are eligible. These must be declared in the project description submitted.
An entry may cover a part of a school, a collection of resources, a project or activity. Contents visible on the entry should have been substantially created after 1 January 2005.
Evaluation is carried out online. We regret that we cannot accept CD-ROMs or printed material to be considered for evaluation.
Cooperative projects between schools, educational institutions and organisations are eligible if they are represented by one school, institution or organisation that is part of the project. If a project is submitted by more than one partner, these submissions will be considered as one.
Entries should be submitted in a European language. They must include an informative summary or an abstract in English, German, French, Italian or Spanish.
All material to be evaluated must be online from 6 to 30 November 2006. Winning entries must be kept online until 31 December 2006.
Legal and ethical issues
All entries must follow European agreements on copyright. Short quotations may be used if the source is clearly indicated. Pictures, film, sound and other multimedia may be used only if if the owner has explicitly permitted use, or if taken from free sources.
Entries submitted to the eLearning Awards remain the property of the school/organisation or teacher. European Schoolnet has full rights to make the material freely available for educational purposes on the Web, CD-ROM or other media from the date of submission.
Entries may not contain statement, fact, information or quotation that may harm or diminish any person or group of people. Entries may not encourage persecution of people on the grounds of race, opinion, nationality, sex, profession or other persuasion. Nor may entries encourage crime or the breaking of laws.
Disqualification of project
European Schoolnet may decide to disqualify an entry if it has not been submitted in time, or if the entry breaks any of the rules under the section 'Legal and ethical issues'. European Schoolnet reserves the right to disqualify projects, remove them from the project gallery or withdraw an awarded prize.
European Schoolnet also reserves the right to adapt the rules and awards. Notification of changes will be made on the eLearning Awards website.
