Notice of 2025 Global College Student Digital Media Technology Works & Creativity Competition International Special Track

01 competition background

the Global College Student Global College Student Digital Media Technology Works & Creativity Competition is a global college student competition recognized by the Ministry of Education. It has been included in the list of discipline competitions in colleges and universities and has become an important platform for promoting discipline construction, talent training and the integration of production, education and research.

In order to implement the country's strategic deployment of enhancing cultural self-confidence, promoting the construction of digital China, enhancing international communication capabilities, and promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, the 13th competition was established for the first time international special track(hereinafter referred to as "this track").

This track is based on Chinese civilization, focuses on digital technology, is open to young people around the world, encourages cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary creative practices, and aims to empower mutual learning among civilizations through digital creativity, promote exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and foreign youth, and jointly explore the future development path of human civilization.

02 track Purpose

this track upholds" inheriting civilization, innovative expression, facing the future, communicating with the world"Purpose:

1. Continued cultural bloodline: To show the ideological wisdom and contemporary value of Chinese excellent traditional culture;

2. Strengthen the empowerment of science and technology: advocate the use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, digital twins, and big data visualization;

3. Highlight future orientation: Exploring future society, civilization form and sustainable development with digital creativity;

4. Promote mutual learning among civilizations: Promote multicultural exchanges and global youth co-creation through international narrative and digital communication.

03 participants

· Full-time students from mainland China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, and Taiwan (Junior College, undergraduate, master, and doctoral);

· Foreign students studying in China;

· Full-time students in overseas universities.

Special Notes:

1-5 students per team (single entry, but international students);

1-2 teachers can be declared;

the proportion of international members ≥ 30%; If the person in charge is a Chinese student from a Chinese university, the proportion of international members shall be ≥ 50%;

encourage cross-school, cross-border, cross-field independent team formation, and promote diversified background collaboration.

04 participating Team

1. Each team of 1-5 students, allowing single entry;

2. Each team can declare 1-2 instructors (the award-winning team instructors will be commended);

3. Encourage cross-school, cross-border and cross-border teams to support cooperation among members with multiple backgrounds;

4. Each team must designate a person in charge as the first person responsible for registration and competition liaison.

05 competition Direction and Work Requirements

(I) competition direction

entries must be closely linked" digital Empowerment and Mutual Learning of Civilizations -- From Chinese Tradition to the Future World"The theme of the competition, which encourages free exploration, includes but is not limited:

1. Digital Culture and Heritage New Life digital restoration and immersive innovation display of cultural relics, monuments and intangible cultural heritage;

2. Traditional Aesthetics and Contemporary Expression combining traditional cultural elements with digital art, interactive design and creative works;

3. Wisdom travel and cultural innovation: Development of digital cultural tourism applications and immersive cultural experiences, enabling industrial upgrading;

4. Chinese Stories and International Narratives: Achieve cross-cultural communication through short films, animations, interactive documentaries, digital picture books, etc;

5. Future imagination and cultural enlightenment: combining classics, myths and futuristic ideas for experimental creation;

public Value and Social Innovation: Focus on education, science popularization, social services and other issues, and explore the public value of digitalization.

Forms and requirements of (II) works

1. Form of works digital short video (animation, interactive documentary) or design images.

2. language and expression: You can use subtitles in foreign languages (but they must be accompanied by Chinese subtitles or Chinese and foreign languages, English is recommended); documentation must be in Chinese.

3. Submission materials:

entries (video ≤ 15 minutes, 1080P and above, frame ratio 16:9, format MP4, file size ≤ 300M; The picture format is JPG, the resolution is 300dpi, the color mode is CMYK, the specification is not less than A3, the single picture is ≤ 20M, and it is recommended to be ≤ 20 pages);

work description document (Chinese, including creative ideas, technical highlights, application scenarios);

video of work display (≤ 5 minutes, ≤ 100M, must have Chinese subtitles);

application form (unified template, filled in in Chinese). (Note: If human-machine experiments/minors/sensitive data are involved, corresponding ethical or compliance certificates must be added.)

06 schedule
serial Number stage time
1 registration and Submission of Works(Beijing time UTC +8) september 30, 2025 23:59
2 track Review and List Publicity30 September -10 October 2025
3 announced shortlist for national finals11-13 October 2025
4 national Finals and Awards Ceremony24-26 October 2025 (Venue: harbin, China)
the international track is not included in the school competition, nor is it included in the 40% of the recommended places for the school competition.
07 award setting
international Track Awards first prize, second prize, third prize, excellent organization award
National Finals Awards first prize, second prize, third prize
special Awards international Communication Special Award, Best Cross-Cultural Team Award
08 organization
organizer chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence
organizing Committee of Global College Student Digital Media Technology Works & Creativity Competition
undertaker harbin Institute of Technology
jiangnan University
tianjin University of Technology
yanbian University
co-organizers Cumulus Alliance
45 degrees north latitude innovative design and education alliance
interconnection Lab (Colombia)
university of Santiago Cali
national University of Colombia
federal University of Fluminense
national Polytechnic Institute of Mexico
international University of Ecuador
korea Asian University
pacific Western University
09 contact Information

(I) contest official website:www.cmit.cn/mit.caai.cn

(II) international circuit dedicated mailbox: cmit_inter@163.com

(III) WeChat Public Number: Digital Media Competition

(IV) Secretariat Contact:

● Teacher Fan's contact number: 15810768095

● Teacher Gao's contact number: 18843186231

10 other Notes

(I) this track is a new special track for the Ministry of Education's list competition "National University Students' Digital Media Science and Technology Works and Creativity Competition;

the final interpretation right of the (II) track belongs to the Organizing Committee of the Global College Student Digital Media Technology Works & Creativity Competition;

please pay close attention to the competition official website and WeChat public number for the latest (III) developments and supplementary notices.

Organizing Committee of Global College Student Digital Media Technology Works & Creativity Competition

12 September 2025

1Annex: Notice of International Special Track for 2025 Global College Student Digital Media Technology Works & Creativity Competition. pdf

2 annex: Guide to the International Special Track of 2025 Global College Student Digital Media Technology Works & Creativity Competition. pdf