Dec 11 - Youngsters Invited to Enter European Parliament Competition
Are you 16-30 years old and do you run a project with a European dimension? Any organisation running a project which promotes Europe among young people is invited to compete for the 8th Charlemagne Youth Prize. Winning projects will not only benefit from recognition and media coverage but also from prize money to further develop the initiative. The closing date for the 2015 competition is 2 February 2015.
The Charlemagne Youth Prize is organised by the European Parliament and the International Charlemagne Prize Foundation in Aachen and it is awarded each year for projects run by people aged between 16 and 30. The winning projects should provide models for young people living in Europe and offer practical examples of Europeans living together.
'Our Government is keen to support any project which allows young people to engage with Europe and to learn more about European institutions. For example, people will remember that, in September, we arranged for a group of students to visit Brussels,' Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia noted. 'I hope that Gibraltar is able to enter at least one project in this very worthwhile competition.'
The three winning projects will be awarded €5,000, €3,000, and €2,000 respectively. Their representatives will be invited to visit the European Parliament in Brussels or Strasbourg in the autumn. Representatives of the top 28 projects will be invited to the Charlemagne Youth Prize award ceremony and the International Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen award ceremony two days later during a four-day trip to Aachen in May 2015.
The 2014 first prize went to ‘Our Europe’, a Danish travel project. The team travelled around Europe for 12 months, lived with young people and interviewed them, later publishing the interviews on their website. The prize gave them "a lot of self-confidence" and the will to "fundraise even more for new projects".
