Description:
The European Youth Award (contest) is EYA’s flagship initiative. It is a European-wide contest to motivate young people, social entrepreneurs, and start-ups to produce digital projects having an impact on society. It demonstrates their potential to create innovative solutions with Internet and Mobile technology addressing the goals defined by the Council of Europe and Europe 2020 as well as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The annual winners event (EYA Festival) is a unique event combining knowledge – innovation – networking – inspiration – motivation taking place in Graz at the end of November. It is a public event and everybody is welcome to join. Thus, don’t miss the chance and be part of it! Save the date for the next edition: November 27-30.
Number of Awards:
Not specified
Target group:
The European Youth Award (contest) is open to citizens and residents of following countries: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritania, Republic of Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, North Macedonia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
Program benefits
- a fantastic family of change-makers sharing the same spirit as you
- mentoring by the EYA mentoring team AND former EYA winners
- two comprehensive checks and fresh ideas for your project from international and local students digging deep into your projects for several weeks
- an invitation to the EYA Festival to learn from outstanding speakers, experienced entrepreneurs and opinion-leaders
- an international stage to present your innovative project in front of an expert jury and huge audience
- recognition at the EYA Gala Ceremony by international laudators
- your projects featured through EYA’s and partners’ channels and in the annual catalogue
- a professional video about your project
- international reputation and & legitimacy
Eligibility:
People who fulfil the following criteria are eligible to participate in the competition:
- Creative minds under the age of 33
- living in one of the member states of the European Union, Council of Europe, or Union for the Mediterranean, Belarus or Kosovo (Complete list above)
- who have produced an outstanding, innovative digital project to improve society (ex. website, app, wearable device, digital installation)
- and submitted it to the EYA database until July 31 (submission open from March on)
- in one of the EYA categories.
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Application instructions:
- Registration, including submitting project information, must be completed online via the EYA contest database in coordination with the communicated EYA call deadline.
- Projects can also be nominated by EYA ambassadors, nominators or former EYA Winners. Nominated projects can be directly sent to online jury round 2 (upon discretion of the nominator).
- Submitting a project to the evaluation and selection process does by no means entitle a producer to any benefits. There is no way of challenging this decision legally.
- Only submitted and fully filled in applications will be considered by the EYA Jury.
- Submission is free of charge.