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home > Media services > News > Development Youth Prize 2008-2009: Creativity meets Africa Development Youth Prize 2008-2009: Creativity meets Africa Human development in Africa is the challenging topic of the Development Youth Prize, which closes end of May 2009. The European competition invites students aged 16 - 18 to show their creative views on Africa - authors of the most original submissions will win a trip to Africa! The competition website is online and open to new submissions. As this is the year of Creativity and Innovation, the Development Youth Prize plays a key role in fostering creativity among young people. The competition is opened until 31 May 2009, participants can join the initiative making their own poster or video artwork related this year’s theme. Selected by a high-level jury, national winners and runners-up will be awarded with a two-day stay in Stockholm, in the framework of the next European Development Days. The winners will also visit an African country, getting a first hand experience of European aid programmes. The Development Youth Prize represents a unique opportunity for students as well as an extensive learning resource for teachers. This year, the DYP library section harvests a special pedagogical kit. The aim is offering supporting material on development issues, problem-solving methodologies and back-up information, focusing on a real case study referred to Rwanda. Working on a real situation, schools may go a step deeper, getting a better understanding of development cooperation projects and being inspired in developing their own. In the words of previous participants, “the Development Youth Prize is a true eye-opening experience”. The winners of the last edition and their teachers are now about taking part to a four-day trip to Zambia, where they will join Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development.. About Development Youth Prize: The Development Youth Prize (http://www.dyp2008.org) for schools is organised by European Schoolnet and supported by the European Commission's DG Development. It has been organised since 2006, with the theme changing each year. About European Schoolnet: European Schoolnet (www.europeanschoolnet.org) is a unique not-for-profit consortium of 31 ministries of education in Europe created in 1997. It provides major European education portals for teaching, learning and collaboration and leads the way in bringing about change in schooling through the use of new technology.
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