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GloCha Contest 2024 – Creating the Future with Music and Art

Calling all visionaries, artists, inventors, innovators, musicians, storytellers, visionaries – calling them all help our leaders, our communities, our UN to master the challenges of our time

Organizer:

  • International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI GloCha in partnership with UN Habitat Youth Programme, UN Environment Early Warning and Data Analytics branch, and other partners

Dates:

  • launch press conf 10th June (https://unfccc.int/event/iaai-call-for-music-and-art-glocha-cocreation-digitalart4climate)
  • submissions page opens July 1st 2024 – link will be available here
  • submissions page closes: 20th August 2024
  • public voting period: 1st August – 1st September 2024
  • Jury voting 3rd – 8th Sept 2024 at the GloCha convention/festival in Austria
  • announcement of winners at a GloCha & UN Habitat & UNEP conference and exhibit at UN HQ NY with live broadcasting on UN WebTV on 19th September 2024
  • celebration of winners at the UN Climate conference COP 29 in November 2024 in Baku/Azerbaijan (event at IAAI’s COP29 Digital Innovation Pavilion, official side event, official COP29 press conference)

Why

Our artists, our musicians, our storytellers are our visionaries who hold the magic ingredient to move humankind into creating positive change, building a thriving future for all life on earth.

Aims

Inspiring and mobilizing, with the power of culture, people everywhere for collaborative action for the common good in the context of UN Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Summit of the Future 2024 and the UN Climate Change Conference COP29.

Building with the Global Challenges Action network GloCha a global partnership and ecosystem of various stakeholders, who join forces for local, citizens/youth focused, global goals action empowerment with culture, technology and organizational innovation.

Awards – 3 Main Awards

Future Creator Visual Art Award  (2500 USD prize money + participation in events in NY, Carinthia/Austria or Baku/ Azerbaijan, depending on availability of funds and environmental footprint considerations)

Future Creator Music Award (2500 USD prize money + participation in events in NY,  Carinthia/Austria or Baku/ Azerbaijan, depending on availability of funds and environmental footprint considerations)

DigitalArt4Climate 2024 Award (2500 USD prize money + participation in events in NY,  Carinthia/Austria or Baku/ Azerbaijan, depending on availability of funds and environmental footprint considerations)

Additional Awards & Opportunities for Partnerships

The GloCha (Global Challenges) Music and Art contest design offers the opportunity to create multiple categories, sub-categories and individual galleries, based on thematic, geographic or other criteria, which enables the introduction of additional awards.

IAAI GloCha is inviting potential partners like e.g. cities, NGOs, thematic networks, universities et al. to get in contact with us (email to contest@glocha.org) to explore potential additional award categories, resources for awards, procedures for identification of winners and other potential collaboration towards local global goals action empowerment.

Tentative list of additional awards:

  • DigitalArt4Climate Japan Award – in partnership with Earth Day Network Japan and the Music4SDGs initiative
  • AI generated content award – in partnership with the ITU AI for Good programme
  • Indigenous Futures Award
  • City Challenge Award (award name tbd) – in partnership with UN Habitat youth programme, stakeholders from the “EU Mission for Climate Neutral and Smart Cities” member city Klagenfurt/Austria, Climate KIC / the NetZeroCities network https://netzerocities.eu/ (to be confirmed)
  • GloCha festival audience award – based on voting of on-site and online audience of edutainment show at the GloCha festival 2024 on 6th Sept.
  • Science into storytelling award – in partnership with UN Environment Early Warning and Data Analytics branch

Link for Expression of Interest for Partnerships / Additional Awards

https://bit.ly/EoIGloChaContest2024

Identification of Winners through a combination of public voting and jury voting

  • Public voting: 20 – 31st of August 2024
  • Jury voting 3rd – 8th Sept 2024 at the GloCha convention/festival in Austria
  • announcement of winners at a GloCha & UN Habitat & UNEP conference at UN HQ NY with live broadcasting on UN WebTV on 19th September 2024

Digital Art / Web3 technology / Resource Mobilization Innovation

Web 3 technology (blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology) enables the creation of uniquely identifiable digital assets (Non-Fungible Tokens / NFTs) based on creative assets (images, videos et al.). IAAI GloCha has developed in the context of the Action for Climate Empowerment Project ACE_AT the DigitalArt4Climate programme as a creative economy and climate philanthropy framework to harness the potentials of Web3 /NFT technology to mobilize resources for youth and local communities focused climate action empowerment. 

IAAI GloCha will work with those GloCha Music and Art Contest 2024 participating artists and award partners, who are interested to develop with us Web3 technology based resource mobilization programs, but this will not be a prerequisite for participation in the GloCha Music and Art Contest 2024.

Community/Partnership Building and Jury Voting at the GloCha Festival/Convention

IAAI GloCha is inviting partners and creators to a series of workshops, games, edutainment activities and community/partnership building at the 1st GloCha CoCreation Festival, which will take place 3-8 Sept 2024 (venue: Youth Camp Kinderland / Turnersee (map) & Cultural center DANICA (map).

We connect creative community and youth with UN programs and goals – References:

To learn about GloCha, watch our GloCha Bonn Climate Conf 2024 press conference video:

https://unfccc-events.azureedge.net/SB60_99755/agenda

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UN STI Forum 2024 Side Event: Citizen Science, Governance Innovation, Challenges Mapping and Local Pacts for the Future

Citizen Science & Web3 Technology enabled Governance Innovation: Challenges Mapping and Local Pacts for the Future

A hybrid event, held in the context of the UN STI Forum 2024, the UN Civil Society Conference 2024 and preparations for the EU Sparks for Climate Citizens Hackathon Championship Klagenfurt. https://www.youtube.com/embed/8aliVPe-ZGU?feature=oembed

Date and time:

8th May 10 AM EDT (New York) / 4 PM CEST (Klagenfurt) / 5 PM EAT (Nairobi)

Venue:

hybrid event with speakers joining from Nairobi/Kenya (UN Environment Early Warning and Data Analytics Branch meeting room at UN Office Nairobi ) – Klagenfurt/Austria (IAAI Office) 

with live and on-demand broadcast on UN WebTV and on IAAI GloCha Youtube channel

At the side event the organizers will present programs and tools,like e.g. the Challenges Mapping methodology and Web3 Technology enabled Local Pacts for the Future as concrete examples on how science, technology and innovation can be harnessed to accelerate progress towards Sustainable Development Goals implementation, climate action empowerment and multilevel multi-stakeholder governance innovation.

The solutions have been developed by the UN accredited civil society organization IAAI and its partners in the context of the GloCha Global Challenges Action Empowerment partnership in the context of preparations for the UN Summit of the Future 2024. The program will include also presentations on deployment of digital innovation solutions for Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) in Kenya, an outlook on the 9th edition of the International Youth Conference (IYC) and IYC’s „informal Youth Summit of the Future“ initiative, citizen/youth engagement in the context of the One UN Map programme of the UN Environment Early Warning and Data Analytics branch, the DeclarActions and mapping capacity building of the UN Habitat Youth programme and the EU Sparks for Climate Citizens Hackathon Championship.    

The side event will be held as a hybrid event.

Welcome session:

  • Miroslav Polzer, IAAI GloCha Office in Klagenfurt (moderator)
  • Shurabe Mercado Guido, International Youth Conference (IYC) and Member of the Intergenerational and Youth Subcommittee of the UN Civil Society Conference 2024
  • Alex Caldas, UN Environment Early Warning and Data Analytics Branch, UN Office Nairobi
  • Doug Ragan, UN Habitat Youth Programme – UN Office Nairobi
  • Caroline Ouko, Centre for Training and integrated Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD), Kenya
  • Ali Sayed Mustafa, International Youth Conference – virtual (to be confirmed)

Presentation of the Challenges Mapping Framework and Local Pacts for the Future:

Miroslav Polzer – intro (UN STI Forum, Summit of the Future, GloCha solutions for systemic change: CMT & Local Pacts for the Future, EU Sparks for Climate Citizens hackathon

Hossein Hassani – Presentation of the Challenges Mapping Tool & INTERREG Central Europe project JETforCE context

Achieving more through collaboration:

Alex Caldas, UN Environment Early Warning and Data Analytics Branch

  1. Dr Richard Munang upscaling the citizen science for Global Environmental Monitoring and Early Warning for the Environment (10 min)
  2. Me Yigang Li, Upscaling One Map for One Humanity through data, impact and resources focused citizens / youth engagement

Joao Pita Costa, International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence IRCAI, Ljubljana/Slovenia

Nena Dokuzov, Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport, Slovenia

Domenico Vito, HubZine Italy – Trash2Treasure Digital Innovation and Citizens‘ Engagement for a Sustainable World

Miguel Ángel García Fuentes, Barrabes (to be confirmed) – EU Sparks for Climate Citizens Hackathon Championship https://eusparks.eu/

Christina Stevens, REvolution Love / GloCha

Context info: Challenges Mapping paper (work in progress) for the GLOBALGOALS2024 conference in Utrecht/NL, August 2024 „Dynamization of SDGs Implementation with Citizen Science, Challenges Mapping and Local Pacts for the Future„

Our GloCha transformative idea for the GLOBALGOALS2024 conference is, to build a global conceptual framework and reporting standard for the identification, localization and specification of challenges with citizen science and web3 technology tools. We (IAAI GloCha) have developed a first MVP (minimum viable product) digital tool in the context of the EU INTERREG Central Europe project JETforCE (Just Energy Transition for Central Europe) and we are working with the UNEP Early Warning and Data Analytics department as well as other partners on the next generation of the tool, which will include self-sovereign digital identity (Global Challenges Action ID for individuals and private and public organisations), taxonomy and ontology for global challenges data management and analytics, a framework for unique identification of challenges, ChallengesID based challenges community building, a global challenges action registry for the documentation, verification and certification of actions and created impact and an individual SDGs and climate action app on which contributions to global challenges are being managed as digital badges/certificates/Web3 tokens. Based on this challenges mapping citizen science and knowledge collaboration platform, members of challenges communities (including public authorities on different levels of governance) can enter into web3 technology supported give-and-get relations – „local pacts for the future“, a governance innovation that IAAI has submitted to the UN in the context of consultations for the UN Summit of the Future 2024 and preparations for a „Global Pact for the Future“  and which will also be made available as a digital tool in support of citizens‘ engagement programs of the EU Climate Pact.