​After two editions of BANDA ASAP held in 2023, during which students from Bucharest, Brasov, Constanţa and Iași presented the hero of recycling through hundreds of works, ASAP Romania in partnership with Animest continues the comic competition in Sibiu and Nemca counties! Thus, middle and high school students from these counties are invited from March 4 register with works on the topic of recycling – “2040. In Romania, plastic is still thrown into the trash. The hero/heroine decides to take the fate of plastic into his own hands.”

The competition involves drawing a story based on a comic book template that can be downloaded from the official ASAP Romania website on a special page. The students have to come up with a story and draw it, and then a teacher from each student’s school participates in the competition. until April 4, 2024. The winners of the competition will be announced on April 19 after the jury stage.

Bicycles for winning students

Comics will be judged by a jury of comic book experts: Anna Julia Benchedian illustrator and comic creator from Cluj-Napoca whose work has crossed national borders and been published in anthologies in Poland, Hungary and Serbia, Lygia the Sun, co-founder and co-organizer of the Animest festival, as well as Adrian Birdscreenwriter and author of comics, book illustrator, co-founder and coordinator of Comics Club Cluj.

The works will be evaluated by category (secondary schools/lyceums) according to the following criteria: relevance to the theme of the competition, creativity of the author and visual appearance of the drawing.

The prizes for this issue of BANDA ASAP are 8 bikes! 4 for each district, 2 for middle school students and 2 for high school students. Each winning school will receive an interactive whiteboard. The organizers of the competition offer a personal development course and, accordingly, professional counseling for educators of children and teenage winners.

“The power of example to engage whole communities and the power of a group working towards a common goal is fantastic. This was convincingly confirmed for me by two editions of BANDA ASAP. I am very excited to see what ideas and stories the students from Sibiu and Niamc will express graphically, and what drawing styles they will use to create their recycling heroes. I can imagine!” said Ligia Soare, co-founder and co-organizer of Animest.

“BANDA ASAP is one of our important projects, with which we want to reach as many teenagers as possible, because it stimulates not only their creativity, artistic spirit or imagination, but also their interest in the topic of recycling. awakening in them the desire to find solutions for a cleaner environment through these heroes that I bring to life. We are delighted with how beautifully this competition is developing, and we want the young people of Neamts and Sibiu to love it as much as the participants of previous editions did.” said Michaela Tutunaru, ASAP program coordinator.

The purpose of the BANDA ASAP competition is to increase the level of awareness and awareness of separate collection and recycling, to develop the environmental spirit of students and to expand their opportunities, through active involvement in a positive and constructive competition.

All details regarding the registration process, contest conduct, judging criteria and prizes are available in the BANDA ASAP Rules – here.

The updated Green Week set.

In addition to getting even more ideas for classroom activities, ASAP Romania welcomes teachers across the country with an updated Green Week digital kit. It includes a recycling guide, worksheets, and an instruction sheet. Compared to the 2023 set, it includes new games such as: “ASAP on Colors”, “Circular Economy Chart” or “ASAP Snakes and Ladders”.

The set, which also includes a version released in 2023, is available for download on the ASAP website, so anyone can access it.

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Media partners: Embassy of Sustainability in Romania, HotNews, Rock FM

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About ASAP Romania

ASAP (Army of Smart Plastic Selection) is a social responsibility program launched by The Institute Foundation that aims to change teenagers’ plastic behavior, from use to separate collection and recycling. The goal of ASAP is to actively contribute to the promotion of environmental education among the target audience and to create the largest single infrastructure for the separate collection of waste for recycling in all schools in Romania. Currently, the program operates in more than 1,600 schools in 36 cities and municipalities in Romania, and information on separate collection and recycling reaches more than half a million pre-university students.

ASAP is a program supported by Lidl Romania that contributes to the REset Plastic strategy goals of the Schwarz group, of which the retailer is a part. The REset Plastic strategy includes five areas of action – from avoiding the use of plastic in packaging and rethinking its design, to recycling and greening, to innovation and education in this field.

All information about the ASAP program is available on the official ASAP Romania website and social media accounts, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

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