Launched by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy, the contest is inviting anyone, from 18 years old, to write stories about an EU-funded project or programme in their country.
Stories can take any form: photo, video, blog post, audio, posts on social media platform, canvas, Twitter threads, etc.
Stories must be permanent and public.
How to enter
Participants may enter Europe in My Region Contest by sending an email with a link to the published story to info@euinmyregion.eu subject “EUinMyRegion Storytelling”.
Entries
Participants may submit as many stories as they wish. The European Commission will translate the stories into English (if necessary), send entrants the translation in order to promote them via social channels (Facebook, Twitter) using the #EUinmyRegion hashtag.
Selection of winners
All posts will be judged by an independent jury.
The Jury will be looking for:
Insight: does the story tell us something we didn’t know beyond the basic facts of the project being funded?
Stories about people: does the story describe the project, or do you tell the story of the people involved in it?
Prizes
The three winners will be invited to Brussels, Belgium, to join a dedicated programme on communication from 12 to 13 October 2020.
Deadline: 31 August 2020, 23:59 CEST.