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World Accreditation Day 2024 Poster Contest

IAF and ILAC have launched a poster contest to develop the official poster for World Accreditation Day (WAD) 2024! All interested parties are welcome to explore our theme of Accreditation: Empowering Tomorrow and Shaping the Future, with a chance of winning the first-place prize of 1,500 USD or the second- or third-place prizes of 500 USD.

This year’s WAD theme will highlight the role that accreditation can play in shaping various aspects of life, from technology to transportation, sustainability to security, and inclusivity to innovation, as digitalization, new technologies and growing sustainability concerns continue to change our world.

View the official contest rules, including guidelines for submission, below.

Read about last year’s winner and runners-up here.

 

WAD 2024 Official Poster Contest Rules

1. Poster Design

Design the 2024 World Accreditation Day Poster illustrating how accreditation and conformity assessment support Accreditation: Empowering Tomorrow and Shaping the Future.

The Poster must include the following:

1. Text:

World Accreditation Day
Accreditation: Empowering Tomorrow and Shaping the Future
09 June 2024

2. The logos of the two organisations in the following order:

3. Editable text to ensure reproducibility in other languages

4. Fully editable design so that elements may be included in WAD branding.

Submissions must be the entrant’s original work. Use of others’ work or breach of intellectual property rights of others will result in disqualification of the entrant.

2. Submissions

All entries must be received via the official competition entry form at https://bit.ly/48AgVQu by 23:59 UTC, 09 February 2024 and include A2 Poster PNG and PDF formats, of 300 DPI with a 5mm bleed, and all associated design files. Design files may be submitted via WeTransfer, Google Drive, Dropbox link or equivalent if too large. The links to the files must be provided via the form mentioned above.

The following information is also required for completing the form:

1. Full name,
2. Economy,
3. A short biography, and
4. Profile photo.

Additional information may be required upon winning the contest.

Up to 3 submissions will be accepted from both individuals and/or teams.

3. Eligibility

Anyone over 18 years old can enter the contest, except for directors, executives, secretariat staff and officers of the organizers, and their respective spouses, parents, siblings, and children. IAF and ILAC member organizations and their staff are eligible to participate if they are not from those excluded above.

Both individuals and teams are eligible for participation.

4. Prizes

The winning team will receive USD 1,500, while second and third places will receive USD 500 each.

5. Terms & Conditions

IAF and ILAC reserve the right to use the entrant’s submission worldwide. The entrant grants IAF and ILAC the royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license to copy, distribute, and display each submitted entry in any media, including posting in an online gallery, publication(s), and various marketing materials, and the right to use, copy, modify, edit, and create derivative works therefrom, and agrees to execute documents confirming such right and license at the organizers’ reasonable request.

The full terms & conditions can be found at https://bit.ly/3SwZjwk.