Regulations of the competition

Basic information

1. The manufacturer of spring and natural mineral water, VENDEN, organizes a drawing competition for pupils aged between two and seven years of preschool educational institutions (kindergartens) and educational institutions implementing preschool education programs from the entire Latvia.

2. Title and theme of the drawing competition: "Water in our world".

3. The competition takes place in several stages:

• Preparation and uploading of drawings on the website www.udensdiena.lv: February 21 – March 20;
• Evaluation by the jury and public voting for drawings on the website www.udensdiena.lv: March 21 – 31;
• Announcement of winners on the website www.udensdiena.lv and in VENDEN’s social networks: until April 4;
• Awarding: until May 31 or other deadline upon separate agreement.

4. The winners of the competition are determined by both the jury’s evaluation and the public vote. The results of the public vote do not affect the jury’s evaluation and vice versa.

5. Drawings, both in the jury evaluation and in the public vote, are divided into 4 categories according to the number and age of their authors:

• Age group 2 – 4 years, individual participation;
• Age group 5 – 7 years, individual participation;
• Age group 2 – 4 years, group participation;
• Age group 5 – 7 years, group participation.

6. At the end of the competition, authors of drawings and institutions represented by them will be awarded:

6.1. Awards will be given to pre-school educational institutions or educational institutions implementing preschool education programs, drawings of pupils of which will receive the largest number of votes in open voting in each of the categories listed in Clause 5, for the purchase of sports equipment or materials necessary for training (upon prior agreement with each particular institution):

• 1st place – not exceeding 500 euros, including VAT.
• 2nd place – not exceeding 300 euros, including VAT.
• 3rd place – not exceeding 200 euros, including VAT.

6.2. From among all the works submitted for the competition, VENDEN will award one work with the prize of sympathy. The award will be given to the pre-school educational institution or educational institution implementing preschool education programs represented by the winner for the purchase of sports equipment or materials necessary for training (upon prior agreement with each particular institution) in the amount not exceeding 500 euros, including VAT.

6.3. Total prize fund for the competition for the purchase of sports equipment or materials useful for training: 8,500 EUR, including VAT.

6.4. The authors of the drawings that won the first ten places in the public vote in all four categories specified in Clause 5, the first three places in all four categories specified in Clause in the jury’s evaluation, as well as the VENDEN sympathy award will receive special surprise prizes from VENDEN.

6.5. Moreover, pursuant to the jury’s evaluation, the authors of the drawings will be selected and awarded with letters of appreciation for artistic performance and gifts from VENDEN, as well as the authors of the drawings will be awarded with letters of appreciation for artistic performance. The total number of awardees is determined by the jury of artists.

6.6. Prizes are not given in the form of cash or gift cards.

6.7. The same institution can participate and receive awards in all categories.

6.8. An educational institution can win only 1 (one) cash prize in each of the public voting categories; if the drawings of the pupils of the educational institution win several prize places in one category, it will be awarded with only the largest of the cash prizes won. In such a case, the authors of the drawings will be awarded according to the places won, but the unallocated prize fund will be directed to the educational institution(s) that tool the next place. The number of prizes awarded to one educational institution in the evaluation by the jury is not limited.

6.9. Each author of the submitted drawing and the educational institution represented by him/her will receive personalized diplomas for participation in the competition. Diplomas are personalized by including the child’s name, surname and the educational institution represented, according to the information entered when submitting the drawing. Diplomas will be dispatched physically by post or courier to the educational institution.

Rules of participation in the competition

7. Pupils of preschool educational institutions, private preschool educational institutions or educational institution implementing preschool education programs between the age of two and seven are invited to participate in the competition on the theme "Water in our world" both individually and in groups.

8. Children are not limited in their imagination when making a drawing on a plane, preferably in A4 format. Children are allowed to freely choose drawing techniques – pencils, felt-tip pens, chalks, watercolours, gouache, appliques, etc. The drawing must not contain name and surname of its author.

9. It is not allowed to use printouts (including colouring pages), industrially produced stickers in the creation of drawings. Children in the age group 2 to 4 years, as well as pupils with special needs or developmental disabilities (indicating this when submitting drawings) are allowed to use stencils.

10. The prepared drawing must be scanned or photographed in high quality without its authors and saved electronically in JPG, JPEG or PNG formats. The authors of the drawing must not be visible in the image.

11. The participation of preschool educational institution teachers and nannies in the development of the drawing is allowed only within the process of organization and control of the work, for example, in the form of recommendations and advice. Adults, including the child’s parents, as well as older brothers, sisters, and other persons, are strictly prohibited from helping to draw, or drawing instead of the child. Submitted drawings, the development of which, in the opinion of the organizers of the competition, shows noticeable involvement of adults, will not be approved for participation in the competition. If the organizers of the competition have doubts about the development of a particular drawing, they will inform the representatives of the educational institution of the author of the submitted drawing.

12. To ensure the development of drawings in accordance with the regulations of the competition, it is recommended that they are created only on site at the educational institution represented by the authors of the drawings.

13. Between February 21 and March 20 (including), the drawing must be uploaded to the website www.udensdiena.lv. To do this, a representative of a preschool educational institution (kindergarten) or an educational institution implementing preschool educational programs (for example, a teacher, nanny or the head) needs to fill in a registration form and create their profile in the cabinet. If the profile is already created in one of the previous years, the information registered therein can be updated. It will be possible to upload children’s drawings from the profile of the educational institution representative, indicating the following:

• Name and surname of the author(s) of the drawing (information is required for the preparation of the diploma, only the name and first letter of the surname of the author of the drawing will be publicly available);
• Information on whether the drawing was created individually (the author is one child), is a collective or multi-author (from two to five children) or group (6 or more authors) work;
• Age of the author of the drawing or average age of the group, if it was created collectively;
• Title and/or description of the drawing.

All personal data received during the competition will be permanently deleted within 9 months from the end of the competition.

Evaluation by the jury

14. Drawings uploaded between March 21 and March 31, 2025 will be evaluated by an independent artistic jury with the aim of determining the best drawings in the categories specified in Clause 5.

15. To evaluate creative skills and achievements of the authors of the submitted works, the drawings will be evaluated by an independent jury - teachers of Baldone Art School:

• Talivaldis Muzikants – artist, member of Latvian Union of Artists, director of Baldone Art School, art teacher,
• Ieva Muzikante – artist, member of the Latvian Union of Artists, teacher at Baldone Art School.

16. The jury will evaluate the submitted drawings according to the following criteria:

• Water is depicted as a special and important value of our life;
• The author’s independent and creative interpretation of the topic;
• Independence and originality in creating the drawing;
• The style of the work pursuant to the author’s age;
• Image, emotions, expression of the work of art;
• Ecological aspect – pure water as the basis for the existence of life.

17. As a result of the evaluation by the jury, three winners will be determined in each of the categories specified in Clause 5, the first to third place winners, who are awarded according to the procedure specified in Clause 6.1. Moreover, several authors of drawings will be awarded according to the procedure specified in Clause 6.5.

Public voting process

18. Drawings uploaded between March 21 and 31, 2025 will participate in a public vote with the aim of determining the 12 best drawings in each of the categories specified in Clause 5.

19. Website where voting is held: www.udensdiena.lv. Voting is allowed only from European countries.

20. To participate in the vote, visitors of the website www.udensdiena.lv must log in via their Facebook or Google user profile. It is not necessary to provide a personal ID, bank user data or other sensitive information to vote.

21. You can vote for an unlimited number of drawings, but no more than once for the same drawing per day.

22. Each drawing is voted on with 1 to 5 points, where 1 is the lowest possible rating, and 5 is the highest. The points obtained in the public vote will be summed up and the ten highest scorers in each of the four categories described in Clause 5 will be determined as the winners.

23. In the voting, the following information will be made public about the author(s) of a drawing developed individually or in a group (1 – 5 children): the name of the author of the drawing, the initial (or first letter) of the surname, age, name of the educational institution represented. However, if the entire or most part of a group of a preschool educational institution (kindergarten) or an educational institution implementing preschool educational programs was involved in the development of the drawing, the following information will be made public about it: name of the group, average age of its students, name of the educational institution represented.

24. Educational institutions, municipalities, nannies, educators, relatives, friends and others represented by the authors of the drawings are allowed to place calls to voluntarily vote for a specific drawing or several drawings on their social network profiles, workplaces and elsewhere. Calls to vote for drawings are prohibited from being published on commercial profiles on social networks of private individuals (respectively, in cases where one or more advertisements or other types of materials or content paid for in the form of barter have been placed thereon in the last year), as well as on company pages.

25. Copyright and intellectual property rights that affect the conduct of the competition, including the VENDEN trademark, are protected. Offering any kind of tangible or intangible assets without VENDEN’s permission is considered an infringement of VENDEN’s rights. VENDEN reserves the right to issue a warning, temporarily suspend or terminate voting for a specific drawing altogether (disqualify it) if unfair behaviour is detected during the competition, including attempts to buy votes or other actions aimed at unfair acquisition of more votes.

Additional information

26. When applying for participation in the competition, applicants (preschool educational institutions or educational institutions implementing preschool educational programs) obtain approvals for public voting on the prepared drawing, on the website specified by VENDEN.

27. VENDEN reserves the right to contact the representatives of the authors of the drawings about the possibility of further use of the drawings for marketing purposes, for example for the preparation of representative materials.

28. Upon the consent of the author’s representatives (parents) to publish the drawings, VENDEN reserves the right to publish the drawings or parts thereof, to photograph, scan or otherwise digitize the drawings, make necessary alterations there to, including, but not limited to the following: changing the dimensions of the drawings or their parts, transforming or rotating the drawings or their parts, making corrections to the contrast of the drawings, colour tones, their brightness and/or other parameters, deleting or correcting defects, imperfections or other elements of the drawings, making any other changes with the aim of improving the appearance or effectiveness of the drawings and/or all representative or other materials in general without additional approval.

29. Awards for the preschool educational institution will be prepared after announcing the winners, upon agreeing with the institution on the necessary sports equipment and materials needed in the educational process, but no later than until 31 May 2025, unless parties agree on different deadlines.

30. Any claims regarding the drawing competition are resolved by mutual agreement between the representatives of VENDEN and the preschool education institution or educational institutions implementing preschool educational programs.

31. Email for communication in case of questions or objections: udensdiena@venden.lv.