Scottish schools are encouraged to get in on the Green Week Biodiversity Competition. This is a great way to bring together languages work on the environment across Europe.

Younger children can enter the competition with drawings and paintings illustrating their opinions about biodiversity while older pupils are invited to submit short digital videos on the same theme.

The top three winners of each category will be invited to Brussels
for the awards ceremony during Green Week. Deadline for entries is 25
March.

The annual environmental conference and exhibition will take place in Brussels between 30 May and 2 June 2006. Part of the event is the annual Green Week School Competition, which encourages young people from all EU Member States, candidate and EFTA countries to learn about environmental issues and express themselves artistically.

This sixth edition of the Green Week school competition builds on the success of past years. This year, the school competition will focus on biodiversity: the year 2006 is of great significance since it represents the half-way mark towards the EU’s target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010.

See the European Schoolnet website for more information on how to enter. Teachers are encouraged to make the competition part of the class activity and the website will offer some ideas and support.

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