Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue Competition 2021

Do you want to learn about and practice collaboration in the Baltic Sea Region? Let’s get together, get to know people from abroad and discuss what has happened with experts from the field. Even better – work on what has happened and can happen together with your peers!

The CBSS is calling 18–25-year-olds from around the region (citizens or residents from member and observer states) to join the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue 2021: Looking forward, looking back – 30 Years of Collaboration in the Baltic Sea Region. The dialogue will consist of three lectures with the exciting opportunity to be in dialogue with experts from the region, and the following activity:

• Cross-country assignment (group entry based on one of the lectures):
  Get together with three other young people from the region, meet, discuss, create and have fun together with the chance of winning a great prize; Only 36 places are available and an application is required!
• Learning diary (individual entry based on an aspect from one of the lectures). As 15-25-year-olds, you can follow the streamed lectures and send in your thoughts for the chance of winning a great prize.

Make sure to read through both the terms of participation and the competition rules for both activities.TERMS OF PARTICIPATIONRULES OF CROSS-COUNTRY ASSIGNMENTRULES OF LEARNING DIARY

Apply by 24 October!APPLY HERE!

Applications, participation and creative entries are encouraged and there will be prizes for the three best groups (one in each category), and the three best individual entries. The finalists will be selected by a renowned jury and awarded during the online ceremony on 11^th December 2021. The deadline for submission is Sunday, 28^th November 2021.

Submissions: competition@bsyp.eu

On Saturday, 12th of December, the ”Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue – Let’s create a sustainable future together!” held an award ceremony to celebrate the participants and winners. The competition which was open for youth ages 18-30 had three categories, essay competition, poster competition and project competition. The winners of the poster category will also be exhibited in the catalogue of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art.

The winners for each category follows as such:

Essay competition

1^st place:Alise Ilena – La marDOWNLOAD

2^nd place:Sophie-Marie Ludwig – Come and goDOWNLOAD

3^rd place:Ania Wojcik – Humpback Whale NettieDOWNLOAD

Poster competition

1^st place:
Guste MergiunaiteDOWNLOAD

2^nd place:
Greta RadzeviciuteDOWNLOAD

3^rd place:Ania WojcikDOWNLOAD

Project competition

1^st place:
Fenja Neumann – BonanzaDOWNLOAD

2^nd place:
Akmaikin Dmitrijeva -BalticSea SDGs StudiesDOWNLOAD

3^rd place:Simon Lightfoot – My Mare BalticumDOWNLOAD

It was a hard job for the jurys to select the winners out of the 51 received submissions. The jury for the essay competition consisted of Isabel Hölz, Director of the Goethe Institute, Finland, Rein Raud, author and philosopher, Estonia and Arndis Thorarinsdottir, author, Iceland. Ruta Stepanovaite, Director of Kaunas Artists House, Lithuania, David Schilter, comic book publisher, Latvia and Arunas Gelunas, Director of the Lithuanian Museum of Art, Lithuania selected the winners in the poster competition. The project ideas were evaluated by Grzegorz Poznanski, Director General of the CBSS Secretariat, Sweden, Helen Nilsson, Director of the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania, Lithuania and Justyna Turek and Henryk Stawicki from Change Pilots, Poland.

The award ceremony included speeches from EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Mr. Virginijus Sinkevičius, German Ambassador to Sweden, Dr. Anna Prinz and Director General of the CBSS Secretariat, Mr. Grzegorz Poznański. The participants also got to enjoy musical performances by Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet theatre, and the Estonian guitar duo Kartau & Kiivit.

Are you a young creative writer, graphic artist or maybe have a project idea for a more sustainable future for the Baltic Sea Region? The Council of The Baltic Sea States (CBSS) is calling 18-30 years old participants around the region to join the competition Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue 2020 – Let’s create a sustainable future together!
Choose your field of interest between creative writing, graphic design or developing a project idea. Submit your entry for any of the three given categories until November 30th, 2020. Creative work will be encouraged and prizes for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners at every category will be issued. The finalists will be selected by a renowned jury and honoured during the online award ceremony on December 12th.

So join now, as it is only one and a half weeks’ time left to participate in the  Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue 2020 Competitions “Let’s Create a Sustainable Future Together”!

Great prizes and a festive online Award Ceremony on December 12^th are to be expected. Renowned jury members will be evaluating the submissions.

Further information and participation documents can be found on our website https://cbss.org/2020/10/26/baltic-sea-youth-dialogue-competition/.

You can also find the information on the website of the Baltic Sea Youth Platform https://bsyp.eu/.

Are you a young creative writer, graphic artist or maybe you have a project idea for a more sustainable future?

The CBSS is calling 18-30-year-olds from around the region to join the competition Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue 2020 – let’s create a sustainable future together! The competition will have three fields of entry to choose from:

• Creative writing
• Graphic Design
• Project Idea

Creative work is encouraged and there will be special prizes for the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place winners in all categories.

The finalists will be selected by a renowned jury and awarded during the online ceremony on December 12^th.

The deadline for submission is November 30^th, 2020.

Make sure to read through both the competition regulations and competition rules for each respective category featured below.

They can be found on the CBSS website or www.bsyp.eu

Go to the competition regulations and rules

Are you currently studying political or social sciences or have recently graduated?
Or are you a member of a political party or engaged in a Baltic Sea Region organisation?
Are you interested in regional cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region?
Are you ready to learn and discuss interesting topics, meet new people having similar interest from the region?

Then, you should take part in the “Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue 2018”, a seminar for students and young people dealing with Baltic Sea cooperation, from many EU countries but also Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation and even USA!

Apply by 31st October HERE!

The event will take place in Oeversee (Germany) between 16th and 21st November.

For more details: BSYDcall2018updated

On November 20th, IVY volunteer Domenico Misurelli took part in the opening session of the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue 2017 in Helsinki. Organized jointly by the Aleksanteri Institute (Finland), the Council of the Baltic Sea States and NORDEN Association (Russia), the event is designed as a one-week long series of lectures and workshops, taking place in Helsinki and St. Petersburg.

Launched in 2014, for the first two years it was designed as a joint programme of the CBSS and Körber Foundation Germany which gathered young Europeans from their respective networks, who are interested in the history of the Baltic Sea Region. Organising programmes in border areas of the region, the young participants get to know each other’s cultures, in order to reflect, discuss and explore their shared identity. This year, the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue is focused on two main topics: Finland’s 100 years of independence and the cultural-historical relations and roots in the Baltic Sea Region

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If you’re aged between 20 and 30 years old, studying to become a teacher and interested in history and regional cooperation in the Baltic Sea area, do not miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and meet people from the Baltic Sea Region. On November 20-26 October in Helsinki (4 days) and St. Petersburg (3 days), in the frame of Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue, a week-long session of seminars and workshops will be organized to discuss current affairs and strengthen the cooperation among countries in the region. Furthermore, the participants should come from one of the following countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, the Russian Federation, Sweden, Belarus, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Carried out for the first two years as a joint programme of the CBSS and Körber Foundation Germany, the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue gathered young Europeans from their respective networks, who are interested in the history of the Baltic Sea Region.  Last year, in 2016, the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue was realised in partnership with the European Solidarity Centre (Gdansk, Poland) and the “Solidarity Academy”, exploring new types of cooperation and formats of the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue project.

For further details, check this out http://www.cbss.org/regional-identity/baltic-sea-youth-dialogue/

Application must be submitted by 22 October 2017