Awards / Competitions

Goethe-Institut and its partners in Australia, as well as various organisations in Germany regularly offer competitions for students, teachers and other target groups. You can win attractive prizes, occasionally even cash prizes or scholarships to Germany. It is always worthwhile to keep an eye on this page!

This competition invites students and school classes to produce a short film on a given topic in any format. There are three categories, with three prizes awarded in each category. Information is usually published in March each year, entries close in the third week of September.
School Film Festival

The Goethe-Institut, in collaboration with the German Teachers’ Association AGTV offers this competition from March each year. This is a fantastic opportunity for all students of German in Year 10 to win a scholarship to Germany to attend the three-week Goethe-Institut winter holiday course in Germany in January 2013! Further awards are two VCE holiday courses at the Goethe-Institut in Melbourne. The awards are presented on the main stage at Federation Square at the 'German Day Out' on 26 July 2012. The Deadline for applications is 31 May 2012.
Contact:
Torsten Schulz
torsten.schulz@melbourne.goethe.org
 Application form (PDF, 155KB)
AGTV

The German Language Network Tasmania conducts the annual Goethe Competition. For students in secondary schools this consists of poetry recital, reading comprehension and listening comprehension, while primary students in Years 5 and 6 submit a poster. There are always lovely prizes from Germany to be won.
Contact:
Ans van Heyster
ansvanh@gmail.com

 

This is this year’s prize question asked by the Young Academy.
They would like to rekindle the important dialogue between Science and Society. Once a year, with a prize question.
Contact:
Jürgen Hädrich
office@diejungeakademie.de
www.diejungeakademie.de