THANK YOU VERY MUCH
The World and Universal Academy foundation want to seize this opportunity to thank all the writers, artists and inventors of the world who had the courage to participate in our World Competition (2012) of Creative writing, Arts and Invention.

The competing works will be published on the site www.wuacademia.org from August 2, 2012. Netsurfers will then  be able to vote.  The netsurfers would vote and choose the best overall work. Online public voting will begin on August 2, 2012 and close on October 14, 2012.

We hope that our competitions will contribute to:
- The peace in the world;
- The popularisation of the literature, innovation and the arts;
- Move closer to the artists and inventors of the world …

"The most important thing is not to win, but the participation" said the baron Pierre de Coubertin (the restorer of the modern Olympic Games).

TYPE: Cartoon
DEADLINE (closes): June 30, 2012
ELIGIBILITY: International, Open to all ages (All inventors, irrespective of age, sex, nationality or social situation …may participate).
VOTES: The competing works will be published on the site www.wuacademia.org from August 2, 2012. Netsurfers will then  be able to vote. 
RESULTS: The results will be announced on October 15, 2012
PRIZES: 0€ (+ certificates + international promotion + publication + edition of the invention in an international anthology + the winner will be nominated for the Grand Prix Leonardo Da Vinci 2012).
The prize awards: The prize award will take place in the Netherlands on December 1, 2012 during the WORLD MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE FORUM (and the fourth WUacademia Festival) in Amsterdam. The presence of the winners at the prize award day is highly needed.
Entry Fee: €0 first entry, €25 each additional.

SUBMIT YOUR ARTWORK

THE REGULATION OF THE COMPETITION

ITEM 1:  The world-wide competition 2012 of the 9th art (Cartoon) is organised by the World and Universal Academy foundation, in partnership with the WUACADEMIA company. It is open from Januari 1, 2012 to June 30, 2012. All artists, irrespective of age, sex, nationality or social situation …may participate.

ITEM 2:  To participate in the competition, send a cartoon (or several cartoons) that are unpublished.  Cartoons can only be accepted if it is written (or translated) in either English, French, Spanish or Dutch. It will be even much better if candidates would translate their works into the above mentioned languages.

ITEM 3:  The world-wide competition 2012 of the 9th art (cartoon) rewards the best unpublished cartoons. The ten possible themes are the following:
- Cartoon for kids;
- Cartoon for adolescents;
- detective fiction or crime fiction;
- spy and political thriller;
- action and martial arts;
- adventure;
- science-fiction and fantansy;
- Comic strips;
- romance (love stories);
- erotic.

ITEM 4:  The three best cartoons from each theme will receive respectively:
- The golden Prize of the 9th art: cartoon (certificate, international promotion and the possibility of being published);

-The silver Prize of the 9th art: cartoon (certificate, international promotion and the possibility of being published);

-The bronze Prize of the 9th art: cartoon (certificate, international promotion and the possibility of being published). 

ITEM 5:  The best cartoon among the “Gold Prizes" will receive the World-wide Grand Prize of the 9th art: cartoon (a certificate, international promotion).

 ITEM 6: The concurrent cartoon must be sent through Internet (in format PDF) and in A4 format paper.

ITEM 7: Cartoons that are sent in will not be returned to their authors.  Once sent in, it will not be modified or completed by registering again.  The author has to send his photography and his artistic curriculum vitae. Candidates are obliged  to send in their works either in English, French or Dutch and their artistic curriculum vitae. The participants using a pseudonym must mention the two names (the true name and the pseudonym) on to the participation card during the registration,   otherwise they will be eliminated.

ITEM 8: ENTRY FEE (FEES): €0 first entry, €25 each additional. It is possible to present several works.  Every work will have an apart inscription to. The entry fee is non-refundable.

 ITEM 9: The competing works will be published on the site www.wuacademia.org from August 2, 2012. Netsurfers will then  be able to vote.  The netsurfers would vote and choose the best overall work. The candidates do not receive any rights of authors concerning the usage of their works by the World and Universal Academy notably in regards to the voting process on the net.

ITEM 10: The results (the nominations) will be announced on October 15, 2012.  The prize award will take place in the Netherlands on December 1, 2012 during the WORLD MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE FORUM (and the fourth WUacademia Festival) in Amsterdam.  The presence of the winners at the prize award day is highly needed.

ITEM 11: Candidates must submit only original work of arts. Any work that we receive from participants is assumed to be authentic work of the author. In the event of false claim the author will bare the consequence alone. We wish all the participants good luck.