Competitions

The European Heritage Open Days Competitions have now closed.
Thanks to all those who participated in making it another successful European Heritage Weekend in Northern Ireland!!

Alongside European Heritage Open Days (EHOD) itself the Northern Ireland Environment Agency also organises heritage themed photography and art competitions.

Please read the terms and conditions for these competitions. 
The closing date for all competition entries is 12 October 2012.
The winners will be invited to the EHOD Thank You event in November to receive their prizes.
For further information please call (028) 9054 3022 or email ehd@doeni.gov.uk.

NIEA Heritage Exposed and Teddy’s Day Out Photographic Competitions - Rules & Conditions

1. By entering the competition you hereby accept these competition terms and conditions.
2. The competition is free to enter.
3. Each entrant can enter a maximum of 3 images for each competition.
4. NIEA Heritage Exposed and Teddy’s Day Out Photography Competitions are open to anyone aged 5 and over, excluding DOE employees and DOE employees’ relatives and partners.
5. Heritage Exposed – images must be of historic buildings or monuments in Northern Ireland and have been taken during 2012.
6. Teddy’s Day Out – images must include a historic building or monument in Northern Ireland in addition to your cuddly friend and have been taken during 2012.
7. Entries should be captioned to identify the property at which they have been taken.
8. Entries must be uploaded on the EHOD website www.discovernorthernireland.com/EHOD by 5.00pm, Friday 12th October 2012.
9. Winners and runners up will be notified by e mail by Friday 9th November 2012
10. There is no limit to the size of files but they should preferably be in the range – 1 – 2 Mb
11. We regret that we are unable to accept video or postal photographic entries.
12. Entries will be judged in a single age group
13. Competition judges will be appointed by NIEA and their decisions will be final.
14. No negotiation or correspondence will be entered into with respect to any such decision.
15. All images entered must be original and the copyright must be held by the entrant.
16. NIEA recognizes that the author of the image retains full copyright ownership of their entry; however NIEA reserves the right to reproduce the image for promotional purposes relating to European Heritage Open Days without fee. The author will be acknowledged in each case.
17. You can confirm if requested by NIEA that any person(s) depicted in the entry has granted permission to be portrayed as shown.
18. Entrants under 16 must have their parent’s or legal guardian’s consent to participate in the competition.