Introducing the FutureEverything Awards, a new international award recognising outstanding achievement for innovation in the arts, music, society and technology.

The new award celebrates creative projects in any medium which offer a new and unique way to experience or see the world and help to bring the future into the present.

Open to anyone internationally to nominate a project or to submit their own project.

Submissions deadline extended to 15 January 20010.

The prize, which will be awarded in May 2010, promote world class innovation and introduce the leading practitioners to stakeholders and the wider public, helping to promote and foster innovation culture in the UK and around the world.

The winners receive the new FutureEverything Trophy, a cash prize, and the opportunity to present their project at the Awards Ceremony and within the FutureEverything catalogue and website.

Further information on the prize on  FutureEverything website http://awards.futureeverything.org 

• Points of the 1997 Declaration related to this subject:
  - Parag. 18: (...) New means of private funding, from major foundations to small companies, must be encouraged as supplementary sources of funds, particularly with a view to supporting the creation, the expression and the dissemination of contemporary works.
  - Parag. 19: Public and private funding sources are invited to respond favourably to requests made by artists in developing countries or countries in transition. UNESCO’s intervention is particularly necessary in order to identify and publicize existing opportunities for private funding of the arts worldwide.