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You�鶹APP�ve got 30 seconds to tell the world what you think the future of education will look like. What do you do?

That was the challenge set to young film-makers in the .

Open to everyone from age 13 to 30, the contest was organised by the global Education Commission with support from A World at School�鶹APP�s and MTV Voices.

Almost 400 entries came in from more than 60 countries. The winners were announced today as��18-year-old Ruth Arunachalam and 19-year-old Tanzina Nowshin from Canada.

They put together a collage of voices around the question �鶹APP�What does your ideal school of the future look like?�鶹APP� and ended the piece with the powerful statement: �鶹APP�Regardless of race, gender or religion, everyone deserves to go to school.�鶹APP���

Watch the winning video here.

The pair will attend the launch of the Education Commission�鶹APP�s report to the United Nations on September 18 and be recognised by commission chair Gordon Brown, who is also United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education.

Brown said: �鶹APP�Young people are at the heart of the commission�鶹APP�s work as the upcoming generations will have the most to lose if we fail to invest in education today.�鶹APP�

The winning videos were selected by the commission�鶹APP�s alongside Beth Garrod, Director of International Social Responsibility at Viacom, and Ahmad Alhendawi, the UN Secretary-General�鶹APP�s Envoy on Youth.

Garrod said: �鶹APP�MTV Voices is proud to support the Education Commission�鶹APP�s efforts and the global movement needed to help ensure everyone�鶹APP�s basic right to quality education around the world.

�鶹APP�The Education Youth Video Challenge was a fantastic way to tap the creative minds of young people who shared their passion, voices and ideas about the future of education. We look forward to helping turn these ideas into action.�鶹APP�

Second prize went to��Preeti Shakya, 23, from Nepal for her moving video about child marriage and girls�鶹APP� education.

Third prize was awarded to��Gustavo Santana, 30, from Brazil for his lyrical animated video that proposes �鶹APP�quality education shall develop citizens for life, who are complete and capable to deal with the world with responsibility, enquiring skills and creativity�鶹APP�.

Gustavo was also named as one of two winners of the People�鶹APP�s Choice Award, decided by public voting.

The other People�鶹APP�s Choice Award winner was Grace Sameve, 23, from Indonesia��for her personal testimonial video that describes an ideal education as �鶹APP�one that provides every individual the best-fit support to learn, to understand, accept and grow to be the best version of oneself�鶹APP�.