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Global Millennium Prize Project
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GMP Theme song
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The Global Millennium Prize (GMP) is an annual international contest created to:
- Stimulate futures prospective awareness among youth and teachers around the world to imagine new alternatives for addressing the 15 Global Challenges for Humanity outlined by the Millennium Project; and hence, help achieve the 8 UN Millennium Development Goals;
- Develop future-oriented leaders in their communities and countries for positive change – both today and for the longer-term future; and
- Inspire creativity, responsibility, and solidarity among the youth of the world.
This international contest was launched in Mexico and is now in its fourth year running. Contest participants enter online i.e. they submit short essay reflecting their analysis and recommendations for solutions or actions that can be taken to address any of the 15 Global challenges for Humanity over the next 20 years to 2030.
http://www.globalmillenniumprize.org/
About Global Millennium Prize South Africa, 2009
The first GMP Competition in South Africa – GMP-SA 2009 – was held by the SA Node of the Millennium Project in partnership with the Free State Provincial Department of Education between in 2009. It was sponsored by the Cooperation Framework on Innovation Systems between Finland and South (COFISA), an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology. High School Students (Grade 10) and Educators in selected schools were invited to submit their essays on solutions to 3 of the 15 Global Challenges for Humanity which have been identified through the Millennium Project and recognised by the United Nations.
The efforts put in this initiative by the stakeholders and the participants were recognized when the International organizers announced the “first ever” South African winner, Thabang Sebetoane, a Grade 10 learner from Dr. Reginald Cingo High school, one of Fezile Dabi Schools District in Kroonstad.
1 Objectives
The objectives for the South Africa GMP project in 2010 are:
- To implement GMP competition locally (SA)
- To include SA participation in the global GMP competition
2 Guiding principles
- Working within the existing systems through partnerships and complementarily
- Sustainability
- Funding and institutionalization of GMP-SA continuation
- Of in-school programme, including empowerment of educators in delivery & judging
- Encouraging innovation and futures thinking
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