Competitions and Contests

Essays, poems, photography, artworks, cartoons, videos. There are over a dozen competitions and contests organised yearly by the UN family. They represent a fun, at time challenging, way to engage creatively with topics that are a priority for the organisation.

2026 PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival

Highlighting the power of youth as agents of social change, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) has launched the 2026 edition of its PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival. The United Nations festival invites filmmakers worldwide under the age of 25 to submit short films addressing pressing social issues in three age categories: 12...

2026 Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest

UNESCO invites young people from around the world, aged 14 to 25, to pick up their cameras and send their best photos to the 8th edition of our Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads International Photo Contest. The UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads photo contest, is organized within the framework of...

Uranium Mine Challenge: Call for Student Submissions

The IAEA invites university students to design, build and demonstrate a concept for a sustainable uranium mining operation. Teams of two to four university students are asked to use the Minecraft Education platform, which enables users to simulate and model real-world systems, to develop a technically sound mining system...