ELIGIBILITY

All C:F members between ages 18 and 30 can participate in the challenge. The winner(s) will be required to provide proof about their age in order to be eligible for the awards. No student status is required.

TIMELINE

- Submissions: April 21 - July 11

- Community voting: June 15 – July 11

- Judging: July 11 - 24

- Winners announced: July 26

- Participation in Challenge:Future Summit: March 2012

EVALUATION CRITERIA

1. C:F community will vote for your presentation with “thumbs up” from June 15th -July 1st and will be able to post comments. 

2. Judges from Baikal International Business School will select the winners and look for the following:

a) Quality of the solution – well thought through, takes all most important factors into account, demonstrates clear logic and structure, offers engagement of multiple partners/stakeholders

b) Feasibility of the solution – can it be implemented in real life?

c) Creativity and innovation – is the solution unique, original, and innovative? 

d) Contribution to long-term sustainability – does it bring a win-win-win for Baikal region and the world?

AWARDS

• The winner, selected by the judges, will receive: free participation at the Challenge:Future Summit in March 2012 with possibility to present his/her winning solution, travel costs covered in the amount of up to EUR 600, and free accommodation (co-sponsored by Challenge:Future and Baikal International Business School) 

• The second best solution will receive a beautiful book/album “Baikal Land” by famous local writer Valentin Rasputin

• Third, fourth and fifth best solutions will receive a book about Baikal

• Top 3 solutions by votes will receive The Future Book

And of course, the sparks!

Idea Proposal

We invite you to consider the following questions as you create your presentation:

• How can we promote Lake Baikal and its natural resources and beauty?

• What makes Lake Baikal unique and why should we care to protect and preserve it?

• What business models for wise and efficient use of this ecosystem can be developed without endangering it? 

• What can we learn from Baikal and apply to other regions and freshwater resources?

MORE INFO

Situated in south-east Siberia, Russia, Lake Baikal is the oldest and deepest lake in the world that contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Being one of the UNESCO World Legacy, Lake Baikal has produced one of the world’s richest and most unusual freshwater faunas, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science. For 25 million years Baikal has been a unique self-regenerating and self-refining ecosystem, keeping its water pure. But what will happen next?

CONTEST RESOURCES

- Lake Baikal in Wikipedia 

- UNESCO 

- GreenPeace 

- Britannica 

- Magic Baikal  

REFERENCES AND NON-PLAGIARISM 

Challenge:Future takes a serious view on plagiarism. If your submission has content copied from external resources without proper referencing, your submission will be immediately removed and your educational institute or associated organisation will be informed.

We highly encourage and support all C:F members to practice proper credit and references to all your submitted work in Quick Challenges, StormIts or the Main Competition. We advice you to look through the following resources and understand them before submitting any future work on Challenge:Future and even in your educational and professional submissions:

1. How not to plagiarize by University of Toronto

2. Avoid Plagiarism by University of New South Wales

3. Advice for Student - How not to Plagiarize by Lifehack

4. Check your work - Free Plagiarism detection tool

5. How to do a proper referencing - by University of Exeter

6. Various style of bibliography