The aim of the competition is to encourage students to approach the (urban) environment around them creatively and innovatively, in order to offer solutions to everyday environmental problems.

Rules for creative projects:
● All grades 5-12 of general education schools can take part. class students.
● One to two students can be the authors of one work.
● The creative project must be related to nature and/or the environment.
● Assessment takes place in three age levels: II and III grades and high school.

A creative project may include:
– a drawing, a poster, a poster, a collage (the drawing can also include, for example, a fashion made of recycled material, an advertisement for a product, drawing attention to an environmental problem, a poster about animals living in a park, etc.)
– mockup, model, educational game (for example, a mockup of Snell Park, where there are environmentally friendly places to spend time suitable for young people; a model of a tool that can be used, for example, to collect garbage; a game that helps provide solutions to environmental problems, etc.)
– a nature photo (there can also be a photo, e.g. of some ugly place in the city now, and next to it a computer-processed photo of what this place could look like when greened, etc.)
Nature photos are expected for the competition digitally (or sent as an attachment to an email). Please also send the original camera file (JPG). Image size 2-15MB as a jpg file.

The creative project must reflect the following theme-year keywords:
– inclusive – so that we all have a good time in the city;
– smart, learning – new, innovative approaches to the problem and/or its solution;
– sustainable – that the creative project submitted to the competition also contributes to the future, and is not a one-time event;
– richness of life, greenness.

In the 1st round, a nature photo or photos from a creative project (maximum 5 photos) must be submitted to the Tallinn Board of Education by March 1, 2023 to the e-mail address teema-aasta@tallinnlv.ee, keyword Creative project.

A brief description (up to 5 sentences) in Estonian with the name of the author(s), school, class and supervisor must be attached to the work.

● In the 1st round, the jury evaluates each creative project and selects the three best works in all age groups by April 1, 2023.
● In the 2nd round, the authors of selected works from each age level will be invited to the conference (which will take place on April 21, 2023 in Tallinn Botanic Garden) to present their creative projects (3 works + 3 works from elementary school and 3 works from high school)