Erasmus Travellers Competition €4,000 in prizes!
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Are you a blogger, Erasmus student or a traveller? Or maybe you simply want to share your travel experiences with others? If the answer is yes, Erasmusu would like to invite you to participate in our Erasmus Travellers Competition. Any willing participant can enter! Help Erasmus students and other travellers by sharing information about the cities and places you love!
Prizes
- 1st prize: €1,000 + 30% discount on Ungap Year tuition + 1-week Startup Tour in one of the Ungap Year cities
- 2nd prize: €800 + 30% discount on Ungap Year tuition + 1-week Startup Tour in one of the Ungap Year cities
- 3rd prize: €600 + 30% discount on Ungap Year tuition + 1-week Startup Tour in one of the Ungap Year cities
- 4th prize: €400 + 20% discount on Ungap Year tuition + 1-day Startup Tour in one of the Ungap Year cities
- 5th prize: €350 + 20% discount on Ungap Year tuition + 1-day Startup Tour in one of the Ungap Year cities
- 6th prize: €300 + 20% discount on Ungap Year tuition + 1-day Startup Tour in one of the Ungap Year cities
- 7th prize: €250 + 10% discount on Ungap Year tuition
- 8th prize: €200 + 10% discount on Ungap Year tuition
- 9th prize: €100 + 10% discount on Ungap Year tuition
- And 20 runner up prizes: 20 Erasmusu Premium Accounts
In accordance with the Spanish regulations governing Personal Income Tax (IRPF), the prizes awarded for the participation in this Competition are subject to tax deduction or payment on account. It is for Cokidoo to make the payment on account or withhold the appropriate deduction, whereas the prize winner is responsible, when appropriate, for including the earnings in his/her income tax declaration.
Cokidoo accepts no responsibility for any tax implications that may arise from accepting a prize in terms of the winner’s taxation as these shall be the prize winner's sole responsibility.
Duration
From 7th November 2019 to 6th March 2020 until 12:00:00 Madrid time (UTC+2).
How do I enter?
It’s easy! Just write on Erasmusu.com about any of the following topics (even better - about all of them!):
- Places of interest
- Erasmus experiences
- Traditions and customs
- Your hometown
- Hidden places
- Traditional recipes
Please read our Competition’s Conditions below.
You can contribute by sharing the following type of content:
- Write a blog about a city or a country, culinary recipes, traditions, etc. Click here to publish a blog post!
- Write about an experience from a city. Click here to publish an experience!
- Share a place of interest (what to see, what to visit, where to eat, where to go for a night out, etc). Click here to publish a place of interest!
Suggestions and examples of articles you can use for inspiration:
- If you want to write a detailed blog entry, you can describe your trips and your Erasmus lifestyle. You can illustrate how your life your 'new country' looks like! This is a good examples of a blog post: Murcian Cuisine, about Paris; and here are some great posts with recipes: Scaloppine with lemon, Vitello e broccoli saltati in padella. Get right into it! Start your blog now!
- In order to write a great city experience, you can talk about all its key features and interesting spots. You can also try answering some questions you might have had before you left just like it has been done in this post: Regensburg experience, or you can write something more open like in this example: Lisbon experience. It is up to you. Start writing about your experience now!
- You can also write about your favourite place of interest. It might be one of the most exciting sites in the city. You can describe some great sightseeing locations, restaurants or pubs, quirky cafés or cocktail bars. Here you have some examples: Park Güell, La Sidreria, Passeig Marítim. Share your favourite place now!
Conditions
- You can enter this Competition only if you have a native level in at least one of the following languages: Español, English, Français, Italiano, Português, Polski, Türkçe, Deutsch, Nederlands. To create high quality contents, you should be writing in your native language.
- You cannot publish the same content in different languages. Our team will take care of translating the best content.
- Important: use subheadings, headings, words in bold and lists to make sure that your text is easy to follow. Avoid spelling and grammar mistakes. Remember to follow our style guide.
- Attention! You should write entirely original texts. They cannot appear on any other website, including your personal blogs. All published content is carefully verified by us to make sure that it has not been copied from another source, so play fair!
- You can only write about places you have visited yourself. Don’t just go to Wikipedia, read about a place and then modify the text to use it as your own. Describe the places in your own words, expressing your own opinion and write about your personal experiences.
- You can only use your own photos or free copyright pictures (which can be downloaded from websites such as Pixabay, Freeimages, Unsplash, etc.)
How do you gain points?
You can see the ranking in the column on the right hand side. The points are awarded automatically in the following way:
- 1 point for every 10 characters written.
- 3 points for every person that reads your content (one visit per person for each post). Share your posts on Facebook, Twitter, Whats App, email them to your friends etc.
- 50 extra points (max) for adding at least 4 photos.
There is a daily limit of 5,000 points that you can receive for the characters you have written. That's why, it is best to write every day! Don't leave it to the last minute!
Points can also be awarded for the quality of the written content, so remember to follow our style guide. At the end of the competition we will give extra points to the finalists who followed our style guide. All points gathered by the finalists will be added up and 50% of this total will be distributed among them as extra points, based on how well they have written.
Reasons for disqualification:
We revise all of the published content and whoever has not followed our rules will be disqualified. Play fair.
You can get disqualified if:
- You are copying texts directly from other pages.
- You are writing long articles with little information just to get more points. Long posts with no useful information will not be taken into account
- You are copying and editing opinions about places in order to make them seem like your own. We call this ‘Copy and Edit’ method and it can be easily spotted as the content reads like an encyclopaedia: loads of dates, names, and facts and not many of your own opinions or personal experiences which we are looking for.
- You are producing poor quality texts as you are not writing in your native language.
- You are using photos that are copyrighted.
- You are writing about places you haven’t actually been to. We’re looking for real experiences!
In terms of trying to gain points for visits, you can also be disqualified:
- If we find out you are using proxies or any other programme to simulate views.
- If we detect short visits, suggesting the content has been viewed for the sole purpose of increasing the number of views. Visits must last at least 1 minute.
- If you are using any other illegitimate way in order to increase your visits.
Any doubts?
Silvia will help you with any questions you may have: [email protected]
Good luck to everyone and let the best ones win!
I agree to the following
Erasmusu.com reserves the right to make changes to the Competition in order to bring it to a successful conclusion should there be a just reason or force majeure obstacle that stands in the way of bringing it to its termination with a fair result in the form that has been set out in the hereinabove indicated rules. Therefore, all decisions taken by Erasmusu.com regarding the outcome of the Competition are final, be it with regard to the outright winner or potential disqualifications.
Attention! We review all suspicious behaviours and disqualify any contestants who disobey our rules. We also reserve the right to remove any content that may have been copied or is of a very poor quality. Play fair!