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Charlemagne Youth Prize
"Europe on the Ground", a Greek youth media project, was awarded first prize at the 2012 Charlemagne Youth Prize ceremony on 15 May in Aachen.
Second prize went to Europe Meets School, an exchange programme for Erasmus students (Czech Republic) and the winner of the third prize was the Cycle Me Home project, a documentary road-movie (Hungary).
The Charlemagne Youth Prize is awarded annually to projects that foster a shared sense of European identity and integration among young people.
The first prize was awarded by EP president Martin Schulz, the second by former EP president Hans-Gert Pöttering and the third by the Mayor of Aachen, Marcel Philip.
The three winning projects will receive funding of €5,000, €3,000 and €2,000 respectively. Their representatives will also be invited to visit the European Parliament in the coming months.
Representatives of the 26 projects were invited to the award ceremony on 15 May in Aachen and were awarded a diploma and a medal.
The award ceremony was organized jointly by the European Parliament and the International Charlemagne Prize Foundation and was hosted by Aachen University.
Greece - Europe on the Ground
Europe on the Ground is an innovative youth media project that sends multicultural teams of over 50 young citizen journalists and amateur photographers to 10 European capitals each year. The young participants are given four days to write articles and produce photo galleries on subjects related to European culture and society. All contributions are then edited by professional journalists and published in six languages on the European online magazine www.cafebabel.com. The project aims to improve understanding between the people of Europe by making Europe more concrete for young citizens, and to use innovative forms of European journalism.
Czech Republic - Europe Meets School
The programme Europe Meets School, Prague has existed since 2008/9 and has been enabling Erasmus students to meet children in Czech schools and learn more about the Czech school system while preparing a short voluntary teaching project in which they present their home country.
Hungary - Cycle Me Home
The Cycle me Home project (Hungary) won third prize. This project started in 2011 with a documentary road movie made by film students and bike lovers travelling by bike from Madrid to Budapest. Its organisers want to create an interactive homepage, where all interested people can get involved with the project. They hope that the Cycle Me Home project can grow from a simple film project into a youth movement.
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| External shots. Aachen. Germany. 16-05-2012. (3 shots). |
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| Family photo with national laureates in front of the Aachen University. Germany. 15-05-2012. (4 shots). |
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| Ambiance before the ceremony. Cutaways with students and laureates. Arrival of EP president Martin Schulz and and the former EP President Hans-Gert Pöttering. Aachen. Germany. 15-05-2012. (12 shots) |
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| Aachen Mayor Marcel Philipp awarded the third prize to The Cycle me Home project (Hungary). Aachen. Germany. 15-05-2012. (3 shots). |
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| German MEP and former EP President Hans-Gert Pöttering awarded the second prize to the programme Europe Meets School. (Czech Republic). Aachen. Germany. 15-05-2012. (3 shots). |
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| EP president Martin Schulz awarded the first prize to Europe on the Ground (Greece ). Aachen. Germany. 15-05-2012. (3 shots). |
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| Family photo on stage with laureates and participantes. Cutaways. Aachen. Germany. 15-05-2012. (8 shots). |
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| Hungarian laureate Daniel Vérten for "Cycle me home" (in English): "The name of the project is "Cycle me home". It's a documentary film project based on the community build around it, so it started with 2 of us in Madrid, and at the end we were more than 100 people... Actually, the movie is ready and we want to send it to festivals and we already had been screening in Budapest, Berlin, Breda, Rotterdam, Kuala Lumpur, Sao Paolo, and Melbourne. We are really excited about that." |
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| Laureate of the second prize Renata Koprivova for Europe Meets School (Czech Republic) (in English) :" The main idea is just to put Erasmus students together with Czech schools.... We started in 2008, we have a German partner called "Europa schule ", we put the idea in Czech Republic and made some changes, because Erasmus students who came to schools , always speak in their own language so we use Czech tutors who translate for children who don't have such a good level in foreign language. " |
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| Elina Makri laureate of the first prize for Europe on the Ground (Greece) (in English) :" The project that I am representing, it is call "Europe on the ground", it is an exchange of journalists, every month in a city in Europe , a team of 5 journalists , each one has to be from a different nationality , they have to work together and the ground on the mission for 4 days... For all the team who works across the continent, our dream is : become the real first European media, not of the big Institution but the real first European media of people. People can identify themselves with Europe, what it means to be European, as I say "the funky part of being European". We don't hear about that much, for me it is very important to go to Greece and with the very strict of financial situation and very rational situation. Young people can dream, the project reflects a dream and they can go on. And this prize really gives a initiative to people to go on." |
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