The contest is held among schoolchildren of the Krasnoyarsk region, Republic of Khakassia, Irkutsk and Kemerovo regions, and Boxitogorsk district of the Leningrad region; starting from 2007 kids from the Kandalaksha district of the Murmansk region, Ekaterinburg city, Kamensk-Uralsk, Krasnoturyinsk and Severouralsk provinces, Nizhneserginsk district of the Sverdlov region, Segezh district of Karelia, and Nikolaev city (Ukraine) are also admitted to participate. 

100 award-winning groups among the four last school years and 25 winners among lower school teams are short listed as a result of each contest, with RUR 100,000 and RUR 20,000 of financing granted to each of them respectively. Over the four years of its existence, the contest received applications for 2,122 kids’ projects, 450 of which became winners and 183 were awarded with encouragement prizes. The 2004-2007 grant fund of the programme was over RUR 40 mln.
The peculiarity of this contest is that kids draw up their projects during one academic year and implement them in the next academic year.

The grant fund of the fifth contest ‘100 Best Projects’, which will be held in the 2007-2008 academic year, has been increased to RUR 17 mln. The number of winners will also change – apart from the usual 100 winners among the last four years of school, 100 projects devised by lower school groups will be selected that will each be granted RUR 20,000. Moreover, 25 winners in the category ‘Promotion’ will be awarded grants amounting to RUR 200,000 each. 

Contest categories for the four last years of school:
• Kids’ first aid (help for people requiring medical assistance)
• Territory of creativity (organisation of creative activities)
• KLASSNET.RU (acquisition of additional knowledge in the IT sphere, creation of educational computer games and permanent Internet sites)
• Our view (establishment and development of children’s Mass Media) New!
• Promotion (promotion of activities carried out by the project teams earlier) New!
 Categories for the lower school:
• I HAVE AN IDEA! (deadline for implementation of the project: September – December)

A unique feature of the contest is the procedure for processing applications that includes – apart from the usual Experts’ Council consisting of adults – Kids’ Committees, where all members are schoolchildren (kids’ committees). Such an approach enables the organisers to combine an adult perspective on the kids’ projects with the children’s standpoint concerning projects devised by their peers.

The contest is held among schoolchildren of the Krasnoyarsk region, Republic of Khakassia, Irkutsk and Kemerovo regions, and Boxitogorsk district of the Leningrad region; starting from 2007 kids from the Kandalaksha district of the Murmansk region, Ekaterinburg city, Kamensk-Uralsk, Krasnoturyinsk and Severouralsk provinces, Nizhneserginsk district of the Sverdlov region, Segezh district of Karelia, and Nikolaev city (Ukraine) are also admitted to participate.  100 award-winning groups among the four last school years and 25 winners among lower school teams are short listed as a result of each contest, with RUR 100,000 and RUR 20,000 of financing granted to each of them respectively. Over the four years of its existence, the contest received applications for 2,122 kids’ projects, 450 of which became winners and 183 were awarded with encouragement prizes. The 2004-2007 grant fund of the programme was over RUR 40 mln. The peculiarity of this contest is that kids draw up their projects during one academic year and implement them in the next academic year.

The contest is held among schoolchildren of the Krasnoyarsk region, Republic of Khakassia, Irkutsk and Kemerovo regions, and Boxitogorsk district of the Leningrad region; starting from 2007 kids from the Kandalaksha district of the Murmansk region, Ekaterinburg city, Kamensk-Uralsk, Krasnoturyinsk and Severouralsk provinces, Nizhneserginsk district of the Sverdlov region, Segezh district of Karelia, and Nikolaev city (Ukraine) are also admitted to participate.  100 award-winning groups among the four last school years and 25 winners among lower school teams are short listed as a result of each contest, with RUR 100,000 and RUR 20,000 of financing granted to each of them respectively. Over the four years of its existence, the contest received applications for 2,122 kids’ projects, 450 of which became winners and 183 were awarded with encouragement prizes. The 2004-2007 grant fund of the programme was over RUR 40 mln. The peculiarity of this contest is that kids draw up their projects during one academic year and implement them in the next academic year.

In September 2006, RUSAL issued a colourful edition – Book of the best records - celebrating the most fascinating winning projects over the years. The book describes the acts of kindness made by schoolchildren living in the vast territory spanning from the Irkutsk region to the Republic of Khakasia.

The winning project

	1st contest school year 2004-2005	2nd contest school year 2005-2006	3rd contest school year 2006-2007	4th contest school year 2007-2008
Boksitogorsk district			5	4
Irkutsk region	24	32	33	32
Kemerovo region	24	19	28	24
Krasnoyarsk region	38	40	52	49
Republic of Khakasia	14	9	7	16
Nikolaev and Zhovtnevy district, Ukraine		10	10	10

The fifth contest ‘One Hundred Best Projects’ was opened on September 10th, 2007. In October the Company will hold presentations about the contest and a workshop explaining how to make applications in the cities and towns of its presence.
The timeline for implementation of the award-winning projects is July 2008 to May 2009. Applications can be submitted to UC RUSAL’s Centre for Social Programmes and its offices till December 3rd, 2007.

Terms of the contest

Rules of filling out application forms

Application form

Application set for participants from Ukraine

Application set for participants from Armenia

Contact information
For more detail, please contact regional coordinators of the contest at the Company’s Centre for Social Programmes offices or Anastasia Savelieva, the manager of the programme, at  +7 (3912) 27-31-91 or via e-mail: saveleva@fcsp.ru.

Corporate social responsibility service

Igor Baradachev
CSR@rusal.ru
Tel.: 7 (495) 720-51-71