Building Trust for a Shared Future

What is the Victoria Forum?

The Victoria Forum, hosted by the University of Victoria and the Senate of Canada, promotes constructive, evidence-based dialogues across a broad spectrum of economic, environmental, and social issues. The Forum organizes critical events, facilitates meaningful discussions, enhances educational programs, and advances strategic initiatives in critical areas such as impact investing, regenerative capitalism, and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Initiatives align with the UN SDGs, especially related to SDG 16 – Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions and SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals. 

What is the Victoria Forum Video Contest?

The Victoria Forum Video Contest is a video contest hosted by the Global Business School Network (GBSN) and The Victoria Forum, in collaboration with Qatar University College of Economics and Business and Woxsen University. The competition challenges university students in the GBSN network and beyond to produce original, unpublished videos sharing experiences and perspectives to inspire efforts to build trust for a shared future.

In our inter-dependent world, a pervasive and increasing crisis of trust hinders progress and complicates our path forward. The Victoria Forum calls for collective action to combat the erosion of trust that has already occurred and build trust across the various divides that are hampering collective action. The Victoria Forum is looking for original videos that inspire efforts to build and rebuild trust. Entries should describe opportunities to drive change, as well as illuminate relevant causes of diminishing trust.

Contest organizers are seeking entries that are richly contextualized and real. Most importantly, they are seeking videos that have the potential to shift the conversation in meaningful ways and foster collective action.

Entries are accepted in each of the following four categories: 

Important Dates

Eligibility

The Victoria Forum Video Contest is open to all students who are enrolled at least part-time at a nationally accredited university. Official verification will be requested for the top 5 entries. All team members must register and accept the terms of the contest prior to submitting a video.

Students can register as an individual or as a team. Teams may consist of up to three members. For teams with multiple members/producers, at least one individual must register as the team leader who will be the point person for all communications related to the contest. Each team member must also individually register and accept the terms of the contest prior to submitting a video. There is a limit of one submission per student, regardless of whether the student is registering solo or as a member of a multi-student team.

GBSN Membership is not required to participate. There is no charge to participate in the competition.

Guidelines

Video entries must be submitted through the GBSN competition form. Videos must not exceed three minutes total length.

The video should open with a 5-second “title screen” that includes the following information:

• Video Title 
• Names of all Team Members
• For each Team Member, University where Enrolled & Country Location 

Formal citations are not required. However, authors should give appropriate credit for quotes and significant ideas within the text/narration. Video producers are responsible for ensuring ownership of any copyrighted material (music, images, video clips, etc.) or the license rights to use the material for this purpose. Top 5 Finalist teams may be asked to provide a list of sources, properly cited. 

Videos must be submitted in English, or in another language with English subtitles included. 

Entries submitted, distributed, or aired through any other channel other than the contest submission portal will not be accepted.

1. Videos must adhere to the theme: Building Trust for a Shared Future
2. Content must be appropriate for all audiences and must not contain any offensive or inappropriate material, including but not limited to: offensive language and/or symbols, promotion of illegal or inappropriate activity, nudity and/or sexual behavior. 
3. Videos must not contain any third-party copyrighted material (e.g., music, images, footage) unless the participant has obtained the necessary rights and permissions.
4. Participants must not use any trademarks, logos, or brand names other than those of the sponsoring organization(s) without permission.
5. Content must not invade the privacy of any person or include information that could identify any individual other than the registered team members. Defamatory or trade libelous statements are not permitted.
6. Videos must not be in violation of any applicable law in the team member’s country (or team members’ countries) of origin, Canada, or the United States.
7. GBSN and the Victoria Forum reserve the right, in their sole and conclusive discretion, to disqualify videos with content that is deemed objectionable and/or that fails to comply with the contest guidelines.

Prizes

Submitting Your Video

Judging Criteria

1. Entries will be judged based on creativity, relevance to the theme, video quality, and overall potential for impact, and other criteria as the judging panel determines to be relevant. 
2. A panel of judges will use predetermined criteria to narrow the list of submitted, eligible entries down to the Top FIVE. 
3. The Top Five videos will advance to the Finals Round to then be judged by an international Final Judges Panel. The Top 5 Videos and Contest Winner will be identified based on the dimensions stated above.
4. All decisions made by the judges are final and binding.

Preliminary Judges

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  Olof Brunninge

  Associate Professor
  Jönköping International Business School
  Sweden
  
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  Dr. Rima Helal

  Ethical Leadership, Visiting Scholar and Researcher
  ESA Business School
  Lebanon
  
• 

  Dr. Sally Shamieh

  Instructor and Research Project Manager
  CRED Research Center, ESA Business School
  Lebanon
  
• 

  Sam Sixpence

  Academic
  Demonthforth University
  United Kingdom
  
• 

  Vivienne Spooner, PhD

  MPhil EBM Faculty Lead
  Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria
  South Africa
  

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