2021 Edition
French and foreign students voted (33,6%) for photo #11 taken on October 30, 2020 in Genting Sempah (Malaysia) by Mohd RASFAN for AFP. The photo shows Macaque monkeys playing with a face mask, used as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, left behind by a passerby in Genting Sempah, Pahang state. Mohd RASFAN, for the AFP, wins Gaze into the mind of 15 year olds 2021.
October 30, 2020 – Genting Sempah, Malaysia – Macaque monkeys play with a face mask, used as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, left behind by a passerby in Genting Sempah, Pahang state.© Mohd RASFAN - AFP
Reaction of Mohd RASFAN : « I’m glad that my photo got the majority of votes and it gives me the opportunity to stress the need to throw away one’s mask in the bin as we keep on swarming them and endangering the animals we should be taking care of. »
Josh EDELSON’s photo came in second with 9,1 % of the vote (1 478 votes).
August 18, 2020 – Napa county, California, USA
In this long exposure photograph, embers fly off a burning tree during the Hennessey fire in the Spanish Flat area of Napa. As of the late hours of August 18, the Hennessey fire has merged with at least 7 fires and is now called the LNU Lightning Complex fires.
Anas BABA’s photo came in third with 9,1 % of the vote (1 469 votes).
May 14, 2021 – Gaza Strip
The Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system (L) intercepts rockets (R) fired by the Hamas movement towards southern Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
If the goal of the device is to allow each student of 3rd to look at the news throughout the world, it is also and above all to take the pulse of a generation that will make the democracy of tomorrow, guarantor of freedom!
The 2021 selection
Key figures for the 2021 edition
16200
students
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8
countries
Between July and September 2020, all around the world, teachers worked with their pupils on the selection of Gaze into the mind of 15 year olds. More than 16,200 young people took part in the vote!
Students from Germany, Tunisia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Turkey participated in the operation.
In France, schools from 64 departments participated: Ain, Allier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Aude, Aveyron, Calvados, Charente, Charente Maritime, Corrèze, Côtes d’Or, Côtes d’Armor, Dordogne, Doubs, Drôme, Eure, Finistère, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Ille-et-Vilaine, Indre et Loire, Isère, Jura, Landes, Loir-et-Cher, Haute Loire, Loire Atlantique, Loiret, Lot, Maine-et-Loire, Manche, Marne, Mayenne, Meurthe et Moselle, Meuse, Morbihan, Nord, Orne, Pas de Calais, Pyrénées Atlantiques, Rhône, Haute Saône, Saône et Loire, Savoie, Haute Savoie, Paris, Seine Maritime, Seine et Marne, Yvelines, Deux Sèvres, Somme, Tarn, Var, Vaucluse, Vendée, Haute Vienne, Vosges, Essonne, Hauts de seine, Seine Saint Denis, Val de marne, Val d’Oise.
Over seas, schools of New Caledonia, Martinique and French Austral Territories have also voted.