The e-Skills Week 2012 Competition
 

The 2012 edition of the e-Skills Week Competition promises to be the most exciting yet. Awarding educators and talented youth between the ages of 14 and 24 years, this year’s five categories aim to highlight the top e-Skills activities currently taking place in Europe.

The e-Skills Week Competition is an opportunity to highlight the extraordinary actions young people and educators alike are doing in Europe in terms of ICT and digital skills & literacy. As a “competition of competitions” top initiatives are first chosen at national level by national e-Skills coordinators and stakeholders, followed by a European panel that chooses the top winners.

This year’s five categories are:
  • ICT in education: for initiatives that show how digital skills enhance the learning process and bring about innovation. This category is open to educators and young people.
  • Young entrepreneurship: for young people who have undertaken an entrepreneurial endeavour, either non-profit or for-profit, through the use of ICT. 
  • Digital skills: for young people with proven outstanding technical skills in programming, software and/or application design.
  • Excellent research project: for young people who have undertaken an excellent research project about or through the use of ICT.
  • Girls in IT: for young women with proven successful involvement in the ICT sector and who can be good role models for their peers.
 
The selected winners and runners-up will be awarded at the final e-Skills Week conference on 30 March in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 

Project Passion: Tell the World about e-Skills and Win 2,150 Euros and a Paid internship
 

Where will e-Skills take you? How do you see the Digital Revolution transforming Europe? Put your creativity to the test today and win 2,150 euros and a chance to launch your career.

Tell a story. Create a cool communication campaign. Show how e-Skills can help people get a job, fuel innovation and/or drive creativity through Project Passion.

How? That’s up to you! Your entry can be video, blog, song or whatever format works best for you. And you can choose your platform - Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr. Again, it's up to you.

Your winning entry will net you 2,150 euros and a paid internship with one of our partners. There are also fabulous cash prizes and industry goodies to win.

Get your thinking caps on quickly though. The deadline for entries is midnight 4 March 2012.