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Deadline extension: Call for the competition for the creation of the lyrics for the Anthem of the Profession of Technical Industrial Engineering in Spain

This expansion seeks to highlight even more the values and spirit of our profession, and provide the opportunity to reflect the innovative spirit and commitment that characterizes us through its proposals.

1. New Deadline: April 30, 2024, 12 noon.

2. Sending proposals: fundacion@fundaciontindustrial.es

This call represents an excellent opportunity to inspire and unite our community. We long to see the contributions of all concerned and discover together the anthem that will resonate with our professional identity.

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1. Call: Invitation to all the members of the colleges of Industrial Technical Engineers in Spain to participate in the creation of the lyrics of the Profession's anthem.

Details on the evaluation criteria: originality, thematic relevance, connection with the values of the Profession, and the ability to be set to music.

2. Basis of the Contest: The letter must reflect the identity, values and mission of the Industrial Technical Engineering Profession, including other important aspects for us such as the professional Associations, the fact of generating vocations and especially in the female field.

The importance of engineering must be highlighted with the values it brings to society and the commitment to progress (containing key words such as innovation, progress, safety, professionalism, honesty, excellence, mechanics, electricity, chemistry , electronics, industry, sustainability, quality, productivity, ingenuity, evolution, technology...).

It is important to highlight the importance that the lyrics are suitable for being set to music and are well formed between stanza/verse or verse/chorus, a priori an extension of three or four stanzas with their refrains, three and three or four and four maximum. The preferred literary style and metric are left to the author's discretion. The presentation format of the letter will be in Arial style at size 12.

Currently, with the availability of programs to help with the writing of the lyrics to form the stanzas, their use is supported, for example the ChatGPT program: https://chat.openai.com/?model=text- davinci-002-render-sha

3. Jury: Made up of experts in poetry, creative writing and engineering and musicalization

The evaluation will be based on originality, creativity, connection with the subject and ability to inspire and unite the Industrial Technical Engineering community. The Jury's decision will be final in its resolution.

4. Award: The award will consist of an accreditation (diploma) recognizing the author of the lyrics. The lyrics of the winning hymn will be announced in a special event which will be announced in advance, with the assistance of the author.