Deadline: 21 July 2014
The European Youth Award (EYA) 2014 is accepting digital projects in seven solution oriented categories (healthy life, smart learning, connecting cultures, go green, active citizenship, money matters, and future living). The Award with the theme ‘Digital Creativity for Social Good” aims to motivate European youth, under 30 years of age to produce socially-valuable digital projects that address the goals defined by the Council of Europe and Europe 2020.
EYA is organized by the International Center for New Media, a Non-Profit Organization based in Salzburg, Austria.
Categories
- Healthy Life: Fitness, Nutrition & Health Care
- Smart Learning: Education, e-Skills & Open Science
- Connecting Cultures: Arts, Games & Diversity
- Go Green: Energy, Resource Management & Sustainability
- Active Citizenship: Free Journalism, Open Government & Social Cohesion
- Money Matters: Financial Literacy, Employment & Smart Consumerism
- Future Living: e-Mobility, Urban Development & Sustainable Tourism
Benefits
- Be invited to the EYA winners’ event in Graz from November 19-21, 2014! (winners will receive a grant to cover their travel and accommodation costs).
- Present your project on a pan-European stage.
- Have your project showcased on the Youth Award Website.
- Be promoted through the EYA Network.
- And many more!
Eligibility Criteria
- The project, product or application entering the contest must be initiated and executed by young people under the age of 30 from one of the member states of the EU or Council of Europe. The eligible countries are: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Republic of Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Belarus, Kosovo.
- The submitted project, product or application may be in any language.
- Registrants to the contest must hold intellectual property rights to the work submitted and be legal originator of the creative project, product or application. They also must have the rights to use the music, sound or audio components used in their project.
- The submitted project, product or application must be completed after January 1, 2013. For projects or products completed earlier submitters have to document that significant alterations and/or improvements and/or additions have been made in the period thereafter.
- Projects, products or applications which have been submitted in the EYA in previous years cannot be submitted again. For projects which have been already submitted before, the submitters have to document significant alterations and/or improvements and/or additions.
- The submitted project, product or application must be free of offensive or plagiarized content and may not violate human rights as laid out in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and its application by international human rights courts or panels recognized by the United Nations Organization.
- In case of multiple submissions from one and the same submitters, each project, product or application requires a separate registration and release form.
All registration and submission information (such as project description, CV of producer) must be in English. The provided information must give a clear picture of the project to serve as a sufficient basis for the evaluation process.
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