Posts Tagged ‘contest’

Cau Jarufe Montagne, Márton Demeter and Balázs Kovács are the winners of the Youth on the Move ‘My European Diary’ contest. These winners were selected from among 47 stories and testimonials submitted in the form of videos, photos and texts relating to experiences of studying or working in a different country. The contest was launched with the aim to trigger exchanges between those who have studied or worked abroad and those who might be thinking about doing so. Visit the Youth on the Move webpage, to see the winning and other submitted stories.

YouThink! is kicking off the International Year of Youth by organising a storytelling contest. The challenge is to finish the story on the YouThink! web site, adding no more than 300 words. Because the theme of the International Year of Youth relates to dialog and understanding across cultures, generations and borders, you need to include one thing about your culture in your story. It could be a song, a tradition, a piece of clothing, a verse from a poem…it’s up to you. This is your chance to share something about your culture with the rest of the world. Submission deadline: 15 October 2010.

Have you done any kind of European Volunteer Service abroad between January 2008 and January 2011 and are you between the age of 15 and 30 years? If so, you are invited to participate in the Scriptamanent contest. The challenge is to write about your EVS experiences. The winning work will receive a sum of 300 euros! For the competition rules and registration sheet, please visit the Sriptamanent Contest website. Deadline: 1 February 2011.

Join this summer contest by taking pictures or recording videos of good and bad practices on road safety from your street, city or country, and adding an explanatory text. This will give you the chance to win a weekend for two person in Brussels, Copenhagen, Dublin, Madrid or Vienna. All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the organisers. This contest is organised by the European Commission and the European Road Safety Charter signatories. Participation deadline: 3 October 2010. Find out more about the rules and conditions of the contest.

The Green Shots Award is an international contest for the creation and promotion of bottom-up innovative ideas on sustainable consumption. The contest is open to everyone interested in making the world more sustainable. The challenge is to create a creative idea (in a short story forma of 300 to 500 words) that can inspire people to change their everyday behavior towards sustainability. A jury of environmental experts will select the ten best stories. The winning ideas will be turned into animated videos and the author of the overall best idea will be awarded with a trip to the next Earth Summit Rio+20 in 2012. Stories should be submitted to greenshotsaward@cprac.org by 31 July 2010. Find out more.

27 nationalities, 1 message: end poverty! Something still needs to be done to fight poverty worldwide. If you are an EU citizen between 15 and 25 years old, join the fight against poverty and get your message out. The challenge is to create a song of maximum 5 minutes, which contains a message on the fight against poverty or development cooperation. This year there are two different prizes: one chosen by a jury of professionals and the other through online voting by Internet users. Participants can vote once every day until 31 October 2010. Winners will get a professional studio recording of their song and will be invited to perform in Brussels during the European Development Days in December 2010. Online submission deadline: 30 September 2010. More details about the contest’s terms and conditions, please visit the I Fight Poverty web site.

Do you see signs of economic, social, cultural or climate shifts in your neighbourhood? If the answer is yes, then CL!CK !T. This photo competition, organised by the European Journalism Centre, is about the changing world, which aims to create a mosaic of images from all corners of the globe to show how local communities are developing. You are allowed to submit up to entries before the deadline of 28 June 2010. Winners will receive a digital camera. Find out more.

In order to participate, you just have to upload an original, creative, funny picture featuring the European Health Insurance Card to the Social Europe Facebook page. The three participants with the most «I like» on their picture will receive two 3-day tickets to attend the Couleur Café festival between the 25 and 27 June (including transport from any European town and accommodation in Brussels). Preferably, you should use your own European Health Insurance Card for the photo. If you don’t have one, you can print out and use the image on this page. Here you can also find further details about the contest rules. Deadline: 4 June 2010

As you could read in an earlier post Design Den Haag organized a competition to design a new symbol for the European flag. Unfortunately the participation deadline has been expired already, so it’s no longer possible to participate in this competition. However it’s now possible to check out the 12 symbols (including a description) selected by the international jury. These symbols will be printes on flags of 3 x 2 meters and will be shown at the Hofvijver in The Hague, The Netherlands. Curious to see all designs (over 1400 from 63 countries)? Please, click here.

       Europe is a Masterpiece. Be the artist who will paint it!

40% from over 300 voters picked this picture as the winner of our Photo & Slogan contest. It was a very close call, because 38% of the votes, goes to the runner up picture of ‘Young people in old country’. The winning photo was taken by Teodora Koleva (23) from Bulgaria. 

About the picture…
The statue of the Bulgarian painter and writer Tzanko Lavrenov is situated in Teodora’s hometown Plovdiv in front of the Art Gallery. The Renaissance town of Old Plovdiv is a cultural center famous with its architectures, which in the past attracted and inspired many painters; that is what the statue represents.

Congratulations, Teodora!