Digital Art Competition - Generation Equality: Redefining Gender Roles

• You are between 18 and 35 years old?
• You believe in gender equality and realizing women’s rights for an equal future?
• You want to express your vision of a gender-equal generation through digital art?
• Unleash the power of your creativity!

UN Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina is organizing a Digital Art Competition under the Generation Equality campaign, in the lead up to the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action that set out how to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life – a visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls still to date.

SUBMIT YOUR DIGITAL ART AND JOIN UN WOMEN AS A GLOBAL CHAMPION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS! 

Find more information about the competition below. You can upload your digital art form here.

Brief to Participants

Background:

UN Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina is organizing a Digital Art Competition within Generation Equality, the world’s leading initiative to accelerate investment and implementation on gender equality. Convened by UN Women, the initiative aims to ensure that the bold ambitions of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action on women’s rights are finally implemented, and that the Sustainable Development Goals are achieved. Generation Equality also aims to expand public support for gender equality, with a focus on catalyzing the energy, activism and ideas of young people. In the lead up to the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which set out how to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life. It is a visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls, everywhere, still to date.

UN Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina joined the global Generation Equality initiative in 2021. Continuing its activities in 2024, two dialogues were held, with private sector and youth, in January 2024 in Sarajevo. The central event, gathering diverse groups of more than 120 stakeholders, while honoring 23 commitment makers, was held ahead of International Women’s Day, on 7 March 2024. 

As a continuation of Generation Equality, UN Women BiH is organizing a digital art competition on redefining gender roles and rewriting social norms. 

The deadline for submission is 23 June 2024.

Ten finalists will be selected by a jury composed of renowned artists, gender experts and activists. 

All 10 finalists will have their work featured on several platforms, such as the UN Women BiH and UN BiH social media accounts, UN BiH website, and UN Women regional website. The finalists’ digital arts will be exhibited virtually or in situ (depending on the situation) during the award ceremony and the next Generation Equality event in BiH.

Prizes:

The prizes will be:

• First Prize: Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S24
• Second Prize: Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S23 
• Third Prize: Smartphone Samsung Galaxy A55 
• Fourth Prize: Smartphone stabilizer DJI Osmo Mobile 6 
• Fifth Prize: External HDD Disc 2 TB 
• Five prizes from 6th to 10th place: Led Ring Tracer

What do you have to do to take part in this competition?

We invite you to create a digital art form of your vision on redefining gender roles.

The Competition is part of the UN Women Generation Equality global campaign. Get familiar with the Beijing Conference, the Beijing Declaration, and its Platform for Action. (You can read this document on the UN Women website.)

Seek inspiration for your art in these topics:

• Redefining or rewriting gender roles
• Breaking stereotypes and embracing equality
• Shifting social norms in gender roles
• Challenging stereotypes in media representation
• Addressing toxic masculinity and promoting healthy expressions of masculinity
• Promoting gender-neutral language and inclusivity in communication
• Promoting gender equality in the workplace
• Encouraging men to embrace caregiving roles
• Empowering women in traditionally male-dominated industries
• Breaking down barriers to women's political participation

The topic addressed must be specified in the entry form.

The following rules apply:

• You must be between 18 and 35 years old as of 16 June 2024 to compete.
• You hold a BiH citizenship.
• You can submit only one digital art form (in .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .pdf formats as well as animated formats such as .gif, .gif, .mp4, .mov, .avi, .wmv or similar formats for reels and videos.)
• Please provide a short explanatory text with your art form (250 words is maximum).
• All submissions must be submitted via Google Form by midnight (CET) on 23 June 2024.

Terms and conditions are available here.