1. Public Competition

The idea of this action was to motivate citizens in the partner countries to think over a common Europe of 25 member states. The call for proposals/ideas on the “Future of Europe – Our Opinion Counts” took place from November 2002 until February 2003 and was open to any sort of creativity. The public competition was published via Internet, posters and daily newspapers. Although the public competition was not addressed to a specific target group nearly all contributions were done by young people between 16 and 25 years old, exceptionally the winner of the Czech Republic, who was 31 years old. The national winners were selected directly by each project partner where the public competition was carried out:

The winners of the Public Competition were invited to a study visit to Brussels in July 2003. For details please see activity 6.