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Schools pages: Competitions for young people
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The European Commission regularly runs competitions on different topics aimed at young people. See below for information on competitions currently open and previous winners.

European School Competition Project

Poster advertising competitionWhat would be your advertising campaign to encourage young people to become farmers or to work in the agricultural sector?

This is the theme of a competition currently being run by the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA). The objective is to develop ideas on how to attract young people into farming. As of now, 34% of farmers in the EU are 65 years old or more and many will be retiring in the coming years.

Interested students are encouraged to propose an advertising campaign to promote agriculture and farming as a career.

Participants must be aged 14 to 19 years and must form groups of four with one team leader in order to enter the competition.

A letter of intent must be sent to the CEJA by 15 November 2011 with the final project sent by 15 March 2012.

The award will be a 3 day study trip to Brussels to visit the most prestigious EU institutions.  Three winning groups will be invited to take part in a 3-day study trip to Brussels in June 2012.

Further information is available at: http://ceja.eu/en/projects/ceja-projects/european-school-competition-project

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Model Council of the European Union debate - 9 March 2012

Some of the students who took part in the Model CouncilThe European Commission Representation in Dublin organises an annual debate for secondary schools known as the Model Council of the European Union.

Next year's Model Council will take place in Dublin Castle on Friday 9th March 2012.

The event is designed as a simulation of a real meeting of the Council of the European Union. The debate centres on a mock European Commission proposal for a Directive. For example, the 2011 debate was about EU maternity leave entitlements and in 2010 the topic was electric cars.

Each school is asked to put forward a team of 3 senior students. Approximately 30 schools from across Ireland participate and each school takes on the role of one of the 27 EU Member States, an EU institution or a lobby group. Details of the 2012 debate will be finalised within the coming months.

If you would like to register your interest or request more information, please email joan.flanagan@ec.europa.eu.

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