4 Weeks Left for Nominations for $20k World Challenge Prize

World Challenge: 4 Weeks Left to Nominate Projects for $20k Prize

BBC World News Press Office Media Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7T

London, 19 May, 2011. Nominations will close on 19 June for the seventh annual World Challenge competition, which rewards projects and small businesses around the world showing enterprise and innovation.

BBC World News and Newsweek have once again teamed up with Shell to identify and reward people and groups that bring economic, social and environmental benefits to their local communities.

Nominations must be submitted through the World Challenge website - theworldchallenge.co.uk - by midnight (GMT) ON Sunday 19 June 2011. The winning project will receive a US$20,000 grant from Shell, while two runners up will each receive US$10,000 to help develop their initiatives.

Once nominations have closed, a panel of expert judges will shortlist the 12 entries they consider to have shown the most innovation, and made the greatest social and environmental investment in their communities.

BBC World News will broadcast six 30-minute programmes in October and November 2011, profiling the finalists. Newsweek will mirror the programmes' content in a four-part series of special features about the nominees. Viewers and readers will be invited to vote for their favourites. In addition, BBC World News will be airing a series of 15-minute programmes, called Down to Business, which will see green business trouble-shooter Leo Johnson visit past projects to give them advice. Newsweek magazine will also run a special feature on Down to Business.

Fans can also interact with the competition and find exclusive content on the Facebook page www.facebook.com/bbcworldchallenge, and follow @WorldChallenge on twitter.

The winning entrant for this year's World Challenge will be announced at an awards ceremony in November 2011. The ceremony will be broadcast on BBC World News and detailed in Newsweek in the same month.

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For further information: BBC World News Press Office Tel: +44 (0) 20 8433 2419 E-mail: bbcworldnewspressoffice@bbc.com

Sophie West, BBC World News Tel: +44 (0) 20 8433 2419 Email: sophie.west@bbc.co.uk

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About Newsweek: Founded in 1933, Newsweek provides comprehensive coverage of national and international affairs, business, society, science and technology, and arts and entertainment. Headquartered in New York, Newsweek has bureaus located in the U.S. and around the globe. In addition to its U.S. edition, Newsweek publishes three English-language editions overseas and is the only news magazine with five weekly 'local-language editions'-in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Polish and Pakistani. The magazine appears in more than 190 countries.

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