DUBAI, 10 July 2007 — Teachers in the Middle East can register their students for the third Mondialogo School Contest, the world’s largest competition for students, before Nov. 1, 2007.
Mondialogo, the global initiative launched by DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO, encourages dialogue among young people from different cultural backgrounds who work on a joint project across continents.
Their involvement with people from different cultural backgrounds conveys values such as understanding, mutual respect and tolerance. Ambassadors of the initiative include the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho and Swedish writer Henning Mankell. Registration is open at www.mondialogo.org.
After registration, a draw is held to match participating schools with a partner team from another country or continent. The two teams then make contact with each other, agree on a joint project topic and work on this in a process of continuous exchange.
The resulting intercultural dialogue leads to the emergence of a joint creative project. This may be a piece of music, a play, a collage, a photographic documentation, a sculpture, and an Internet page — there are no limits to the children’s imagination.
The Internet Portal in five languages at www.mondialogo.org provides the main dialogue medium for the contest.
