The Patent Office invites 5th -12th grade students studying at general, special, and professional education institutions to participate in the Creative Intellectual competition by setting up teams and preparing two creative tasks on intellectual property issues.
The purpose of the competition is to develop creativity and promote students' understanding of the importance of intellectual and industrial property in business, as well as to stimulate students' curiosity and interest in research, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
“For the fourth year in a row, we invite young people to be creative and participate in the Creative Intellectual competition. I am sure that working in teams is a way to encourage children to think about entrepreneurship and intellectual property protection at school years," says Agris Batalauskis, Director of the Patent Office.
The tasks will be evaluated in the two age groups: grades 5-8 and grades 9-12. The participants are invited to set up teams of two or three students that will work in cooperation with their teacher.
Applications for the competition can be submitted from September 5 to October19. The jury will be working until November 8, and the announcement of the winners is planned for November 13. The final event, where the teams and teachers of the first three places will participate, will be held on November 24 at the airBaltic Training Center. In each of the groups, the 1st place winners will be awarded with wireless speakers; the 2nd place winners will receive wireless headphones; and the 3rd place winners will get electric toothbrushes. The total prize fund is 3,000 euros.
The competition is being organized by the Patent Office in cooperation with the State Educational Content Center, the Association of Latvian Professional Patent Attorneys, the Latvian National Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), and Junior Achievement Latvia. Their representatives will constitute a panel that will evaluate the works submitted by students.