“Communicating Migration and Mobility – E-Learning Programs and Newsroom Applications for Sub-Saharan Africa” (CoMMPASS) is an Erasmus+ project to be funded by the European Commission. Its aim is to foster journalism higher education institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa to conceptualize and implement a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) curriculum on media and migration. The overall objective is to promote the quality of information and public discourse about migration and mobility in countries of origin, transit, and destination. Six universities from Burkina Faso, Malawi and Uganda) will participate in the project, together with the university of Dortmund in Germany, the university institute of Lisbon in Portugal and several other associated partners, including Unesco, the African Media Initiative, the Media Challenge Initiative, the European Journalism Training Association, the
World Journalism Education Council and eight other African universities.

Aims of the logo

As part of the upcoming launch, the CoMMPASS project is launching a competition open to African students to design its logo. This logo should reflect the image of CoMMPASS in its role as an international project aimed at building the capacity of higher education institutions in media reporting on migration. It should visually identify the project and arouse curiosity about it.

Logo features

The logo must respect the following characteristics:

• innovation: the logo must reflect the innovation promoted by CoMMPASS, it should be modern,
  adapted to the new digital tools and in line with the target audience;
• originality: the logo must not be a copy or an adaptation of an existing logo;
• readability: the logo must be simple and readable in order to be functional, i.e. easily
  recognisable and understandable, while providing a graphic quality. Shadows and shading are
  not recommended.

Technical requirements

Each student may propose as many logo proposals as they wish, but each one should:

• have a maximum of two (2) colours, with a specific percentage of colour mixes;
• be reproducible, ensuring optimal quality for the black and white version;
• fit into a square format;
• incorporate the CoMMPASS acronym (with a lowercase “o”) but not necessarily its long name
• be in JPEG format or equivalent, with adequate image resolution;
• be transposable to various communication tools;
• be accompanied by a separate description in English or French, explaining its contents and
  components (the fonts used in particular).

The logo can take the form of an emblem (a text enclosed in an abstract symbol), a monogram (made up of letters), a pictogram (made up of symbols only) or be in a combined format.

Detailed ToRs here

Deadlines

Logo proposals should be sent by email only to commpassjury@gmail.com before 2^nd June, 2023 at 5:00PM EAT, with the name and contact details of the artist (name, first name, gender, telephone number and e-mail address), the name of his/her university, a description of each of the logos sent, and an attestation on honour of being the original artist who produced them. The applicant shall ensure that a document proving his/her identity is attached to his/her submission.

Participation in the contest is entirely free of charge.