Promote European brotherhood for cash prizes

THE THIRD annual European Charlemagne Youth Prize has been launched, offering €10,000 worth of prizes for young role models. The competition targets young people, aged between 16 and 30, who have been involved with projects helping to promote understanding between peoples from different European countries. The deadline for submitting projects is January 22, 2010.

The Youth Prize is jointly organised by the European Parliament and the Foundation of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen. The winning projects should serve as role models for young people living in Europe and offer practical examples of Europeans living together as one community.

Youth exchange programmes, artistic and internet projects with a European dimension are among the projects selected.

The three winning projects will be awarded funding of €5,000, €3,000, and €2,000 respectively. They will also be invited to visit the European Parliament.

Last year, the Polish youth project ‘YOUrope Needs YOU!’ was awarded the first prize. Through a series of high school workshops run by university students, this project uses informal methods to convey to teenagers interesting facts about Europe.

n Application forms are available on the European Parliament’s Office website. For further information, go to www.charlemagneyouthprize.eu, or contact Nikos Salliarelis, [email protected], or call +32-498-983326.

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