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WORLD IP DAY 2026 YOUTH VIDEO COMPETITION

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Application Deadline: March 15, 2026, at 23:59 CET

LOCATION: Switzerland

Celebrate the power of sports and intellectual property (IP) with the World IP Day Youth Video Competition. They invite individuals and groups to create and submit a 60- to 90-second video showcasing how IP rights fuel innovation and creativity in the sports world.

ELIGIBILITY:

You can enter the competition alone or team up with friends for a group entry (up to 10 participants), but not both. Each person or group gets just one entry. You, or at least one person in your group, need to be between 18 and 35 years old when you submit your application.

The theme of the competition is “Game Changers: IP Powering Sports Innovation.” They’re looking for videos that explore how innovation, creativity, and IP rights are transforming the world of sports. Your video can tell a story, highlight an invention, or share an idea that shows how IP helps drive progress, inspire change, and shape the future of sports. You may wish to focus on one or more of the following areas:

How IP supports innovation and creativity in sports.

How inventors, creators, and entrepreneurs are redefining the game.

The impact of IP-driven solutions on athletes, fans, or the broader sports industry.

Your video has not been published previously online. 

The video has not been recognized and/or won an award in another competition.

The video was made by you or your group, and you must have obtained permission to use any third-party content included in it.

You must provide proof of authorization to use any background music recordings or sound recordings featured in your video. 

Your video does not include watermarks or any other similar markings.

Your video is in MP4 format and between 60 and 90 seconds long.

Your video does not contain any embedded subtitles or captions.

Videos may include audio narrative in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish.

Your video must not violate any copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, industrial designs, distinctive signs, contractual obligations, or any other IP rights or other proprietary rights of any third party.

Your video may include the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in making your video

BENEFIT:

Exciting prizes await you in the World IP Day Youth Video Competition!

First Prize: Digital equipment to the maximum value of CHF 3,000

Second Prize: Digital equipment to the maximum value of CHF 2,000

Third Prize: Digital equipment to the maximum value of CHF 1,000

The People’s Choice Prize: Digital equipment valued at up to CHF 500

Top 20 entries: The top 20 winning entries will benefit from training opportunities offered by the WIPO Academy.

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HUAWEI’S EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHY BRAND XMAGE AWARDS 2025

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Application Deadline:  15 September, 2025

LOCATION: China

XMAGE is Huawei’s exclusive photography brand and initiative. It crafts powerful visual experiences based on advanced software, device, and chip technologies, cloud capabilities, and a distinct aesthetic vision, showcasing the power of image.

ELIGIBILITY:

XMAGE is the Huawei platform for smartphone photographic excellence, the window through which we celebrate amazing photos & videos captured on Huawei devices from around the world. It empowers mobile photographers to craft and share breathtaking visuals that demonstrate artistry from different perspectives, uniting us all in celebrating the power of image.

Entry is FREE

Any Huawei phone user from around the world can participate. However, submissions that have won an award in any contest or have been published in a public periodical will not be accepted for submission.

Submissions are to be made on the official XMAGE Awards website (https://consumer.huawei.com/en/campaign/xmage/) and other sub-arenas such as HUAWEI Community, My HUAWEI. To submit your work on the XMAGE Awards website, you are required to log in with your HUAWEI ID and authorize us to use your HUAWEI ID to uniquely identify you so that you can upload, view, and manage your submissions. We will collect your HUAWEI ID, user name, and profile picture.

Submissions shall also be made on Instagram. Upload your work with the hashtag #HUAWEIXMAGE and follow @huaweixmageawards to participate. You must set your profile page to “Public” and allow non-followers to send you direct messages during the Campaign for the Organizer being able to contact you. When your work is featured on our channel or shortlisted, we kindly request you to provide us with your Instagram username. This will allow us to properly credit you in our post.

All submissions to the XMAGE Awards must be created with Huawei phones. There are no restrictions on when you take the photos/videos or which model of Huawei phone you use.

Each participant can upload a maximum of 30 works, which can consist of a photo, a group of photos, or videos. Works not approved will not be counted.

BENEFIT:

XMAGE 100 – Grand Prize Winner (3)

XMAGE creation fund of USD 10,000

An electronic certificate

XMAGE 100 (97)

XMAGE creation fund of USD 1,500

An electronic certificate

The aforementioned creation funds are pre-tax amounts.

The organizer has the right to modify the number of winners.

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