Schools, educational institutions and organisations in Europe carrying out primary, secondary or teacher training education, and teachers employed or working for such schools, educational institutions and organisations in Europe are eligible for the eLearning Awards.

Municipal and regional education institutions are eligible only for the special award that relates to them.

National educational content providers and similar, or projects run by such institutions/organisations are not eligible. Projects that were awarded eLearning Awards in 2001, 2002 or 2003, projects that are part of European Schoolnet (EUN) or that are regularly presented from the EUN server are also not eligible.

An entry may cover a part of a school, a collection of resources, a project or activity. Contents visible on the entry should have been substantially created after 1 January 2003.

Entries must be submitted via the eLearning Awards website on or before 1 September 2004.

Cooperative projects between schools, educational institutions and organisations are eligible if they are represented by a school, institution or organisation that is part of the project. If a project is submitted by more than one partner, these submissions will be considered as one.

Evaluation is carried out online. We regret that we cannot accept CD-ROMs or printed material to be considered for evaluation.

Entries should be submitted in a European language.  They must include an informative summary or an abstract in English, German, French, Italian or Spanish.

The submission should contain essential information about the project such as earlier awards or competitions entered or won, company funding, etc.

All material to be evaluated must be online from 1 September to 30 November 2004. Winning entries must be kept online until 31 December 2005.

Legal and ethical issues

All entries must follow European agreements on copyright. Short quotations may be used if the source is clearly indicated. Pictures, film, sound and other multimedia may be used only if produced by the school or similar, or if the owner has explicitly permitted use, or if taken from free sources such as Clip Art.

Entries submitted to the eLearning Awards remain the property of the school/organisation or teacher. European Schoolnet has full rights to make the material freely available for educational purposes on the Web, CD-ROM or other media from the date of submission until 31 December 2013.

Entries may not contain statement, fact, information or quotation that may harm or diminish any person or group of people. Entries may not contain statement, fact, information or quotation that may encourage persecution of people on the grounds of race, opinion, nationality, sex, profession or other persuasion. Nor may entries encourage crime or the breaking of laws.
 
Disqualification of project

European Schoolnet or jurors may decide to disqualify an entry if it has not been submitted in time, partly or as a whole; or if the entry breaks any of the rules under the section 'Legal and ethical issues', above. If an entry contains material that may be considered to break the rules, European Schoolnet may disqualify the project, take away the material that breaks the rules or withdraw an awarded prize.

European Schoolnet reserves the right to adapt the rules and awards. Notification of changes will be made on the eLearning Awards website.