Web Challenges Europe

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• Web Challenges Europe
• Introduction

Web Challenges Europe 2006
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SUMMARY
1. WHAT ARE THE WEB CHALLENGES in France
?..... p. 5 2. THE RESULTS OF THE WEB
CHALLENGES in France ?. p. 8 3. THE
PARTNERS OF THE WEB CHALLENGES in France p.
10 4. WEB CHALLENGES EUROPE ....
p. 11 5. THE PROGRESS OF WEB CHALLENGES EUROPE
. p. 13 6. COMMUNICATION
PLANNING...p. 14 7. WHAT
BENEFITS FOR EUROPE.p. 15 8.
CONTACTSp. 18
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1. WHAT ARE THE WEB CHALLENGES in France ?
 The Web Challenges, an original concept created
and developed in France 

• A national e-learning competitive game for
  French schoolchildren, high school pupils and
  students.
• To learn how to get the best access of the
  educational properties of the Internet and how to
  maximize its resources.
• To share some ethical, modern and positive
  values. 
• To build a team spirit and a climate of
  cohesion.

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1.2 WHAT ARE THE WEB CHALLENGES in France ?
The Semicircle of the French Senate during the
Final Challenges, on the 3rd of April 2004.
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1.3 WHAT ARE THE WEB CHALLENGES in France ?
 The Web Challenges, a rich educational content 

• A competitive game of knowledge which takes
  place on the Internet in three steps
• 1 Some qualifications online inside the
  French Schools, High Schools and Colleges.
• 2 Some local finals in well-known places of
  the French Regions
• 3 The National final inside the Amphitheater
  of the French Senate.
• Some questions of general culture validated by
  the French Ministry of Education, which are about
  5 themes
• History and Heritage
• Economy and Society
• Sciences and Technology
• Environment and Urbanism
• Art and Culture

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1.4 WHAT ARE THE WEB CHALLENGES in France ?
The Semicircle of the French Senate during the
Final Challenges, on the 3rd of April 2004.
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1.5 WHAT ARE THE WEB CHALLENGES in France ?
  The Web Challenges, a team work

• The young people subscribe with a team of three
  on the Website www.defisdunet.com
• For four weeks, during the tests and
  qualifications, they go online on top educational
  websites in order to find the answers to the
  questions they were asked.
• At the end of those qualifications the best 10
  teams of each regions qualify for the local final
  game.
• Then the winning teams of the local finals
  participate in the national Final game at the
  Senate in Paris.

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2. THE RESULTS OF THE WEB CHALLENGES in France
  Schoolchildren, high school pupils and
students, more and more participants each year 
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2.1 THE RESULTS OF THE WEB CHALLENGES in France
The Web Challenges inside the semicircle of the
Senate with the participation of Jean-François
Lamour, Minister of Youth, Sports et associative
life and Nelly Ollin, Delegated Minister for the
struggle against precarity and exclusion.
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3. THE PARTNERS OF THE WEB CHALLENGES in France

• Some institutionnal partners
• Some private partners
• Some média partners

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4. THE WEB CHALLENGES EUROPE
 An ideal operation devoted to the promotion
of the European Information Society

• One of the main objectives of Europe is
• To become the most competitive economy in the
  world based on knowledge.
• To enhance, develop and control the new
  technologies.
• The major challenges to go through are
• To overcome the situation that some european
  countries are slow to use the new information and
  communication technologies
• To increase the dialogue between cultures in
  order to integrate the diversity of the European
  cultural treasures.
• To generate a common base of all the European
  knowledges.

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4.1 THE WEB CHALLENGES EUROPE
 An original concept to have a better
understanding of Europe, its Institutions and
the Europeans. 

• This game will be focused on 5 themes
• History and Heritage
• Economy and Society
• Science and Technology
• Environment and Urbanism
• Art and Culture
• It will be composed of two major parts
• One is going to be devoted to some questions
  about Europe, its institutions, functioning and
  history.
• The other one is going to afford to promote a
  better understanding of the Europeans own
  traditions and customs, their history and
  cultures.

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5. THE PROGRESS OF THE WEB CHALLENGES EUROPE
 Some qualifications online and a final in one
of the most prestigious places in Europe 

• Some qualifications online for the 25 European
  member countries
• The participants join online and answer some
  multiple choice questions.
• Then they will have more than 4 to 6 weeks to
  answer the questions.
• A final in one of the two capitals of the
  European Union at Bruxelles or Strasbourg
• The best team in each country is selected for
  the European final.
• This final is going to be honoured by the
  presence of the European Commissioners and
  deputies.

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6. COMMUNICATION PLANNING
 Huge directmedia and institutional marketing
campaigns

• Organisation of huge direct communication
  campaigns all over the 25th countries of the
  Union,
• Billposting in every high school, college and
  university in Europe
• Handout distributions.
• Organisation of media campaigns
• Press release presentation of Web Challenges
  Europe
• Adverstising in the national newspapers
• Interviews and articles in national newspapers
• TV slots and interviews on the European and
  national channels (Euronews, Arte, TV5)
• Organisation of institutional campaigns
• articles in the State members
• articles in the European Union

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7. WHAT BENEFITS FOR EUROPE ?
 to become the most competitive and dynamic
knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of
sustainable economic growth () and greater
social cohesion .    
Lisbon European Council Summit, 23 et 24
mars 2000.

• Web Challenges Europe strengthens the European
  goals devoted to the information society
• To become the most competitive economy in the
  world based on knowledge
• To develop and to have an effective control on
  new technologies.
• Web challenges Europe consolidates unity and
  diversity
• They reinforce the dialogue between the
  different european countries and afford
  integration and diversity of all cultural
  treasures.
• They constitute a common basis of the Europeans
  knowledge.
• They provide a better understanding of the
  institutional and historical gains in order to
  face up to the strategic challenges of the
  future.

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8. CONTACT
For more information please contact Mr. Reza
PIRZADEH

reza.pirzadeh_at_defisdunet.com Miss Vanessa
MORGENSTERN vanessa.morgenstern_at_defisdunet.com
Web Challenges Europe 50, rue Etienne Marcel -
75002 PARISTel 011 33 1 42 33 63 70 - Fax
011 33 1 42 33 63 24 www.defisdunet.com
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