With IP, we can dream of a better future, turn our ideas into reality and create a world where everyone thrives.
Take part in the World Intellectual Property Day 2024 Youth Video Competition and secure a chance to win a top prize up to CHF 5,000 and other prizes. Unleash your creativity in a 60 to 90-second video that showcases how an inventor, creator, entrepreneur, or local community near you is shaping a better future for all with innovation, creativity, and intellectual property (IP) rights.
Submit your video entry from January 8 to March 10, 2024.
Who can participate?
Entries can be submitted by individuals or groups of individuals.
Individual entries must be submitted by individuals aged between 18 and 34 years (i.e. under 35 years of age) on the closing date for entries.
Group entries may include up to 10 participants, with at least one member aged under 35 on the closing date for entries. Further details are outlined in the rules (PDF) of the World Intellectual Property Day 2024 Youth Video Competition.
What is this year’s theme?
The theme of this year's competition is: With IP, we can dream of a better future, turn our ideas into reality and create a world where everyone thrives.
The competition is an opportunity to celebrate the inventors, creators, entrepreneurs, and local communities around the world whose innovations, creativity and use of IP rights are improving people’s lives and safeguarding our planet in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Competition prizes
First Prize: Digital equipment to the maximum value of CHF 5,000.
Second Prize: Digital equipment to the maximum value of CHF 3,000.
Third Prize: Digital equipment to the maximum value of CHF 1,000.
The People’s Choice Prize: Digital equipment to the maximum value of CHF 2,500.
The top 20 winning entries will benefit from training opportunities offered by the WIPO Academy.
Video requirements
Entries will be:
- Between 60 and 90 seconds.
- In MP4 format.
- Will bear no subtitles/captions.
- May include audio narratives in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish.
- Audio narratives will be accompanied with a time-coded transcript in the relevant language.
The judging process
The World Intellectual Property Day 2024 Youth Video Competition Jury will review all entries with a view to selecting a shortlist of the top 20 entries. The Jury will then identify the top three videos in line with established judging criteria.
Videos will be judged according to their adherence to the theme, expression of theme, originality, creativity, messaging and visual appeal, among others.
Public vote
The short-listed videos will also be submitted to an online public vote to identify the winner of the People’s Choice Prize. This prize will be awarded to the entry that receives the highest number of votes in the online public vote.
The public vote will be open from April 10 to 21, 2024. Each person voting may cast up to five votes to indicate which entries they prefer.
Check out the full list of requirements on the WIPO platform.