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European CommissionCouncil of Europe

1/19/2010
Picture of Europe

The clip should express a personal vision of Europe and be able to captivate a young and wide audience via internet or mobile devices through its original, creative or aesthetical approach. The European Commission is expecting video clips having the potential to create a real impact on an audience aged 15-35 of all genders and socio-economic backgrounds.

Applicants should convey a positive vision of Europe with an artistic, documentary, humoristic or fictional angle, picturing personal or public situations, current or historical, of European life in their immediate environment: family, enterprise, community, association, city, village; local events – music, fashion, leisure, games that could represent an original vision of Europe. The deadline for entries is 15th March 2010.

To read more, click here

Rules of the competition are to be found here.


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8/30/2010 - Active's new address
Active office has moved and changed address.
8/27/2010 - Shout out loud:...
...We need a world free from drugs! Active – sobriety, friendship and peace is today celebrating its 20th anniversary. In the last 20 years the youth temperence movement in Europe has been steadily growing and getting stronger. Being proud on the work we did the last 20 years, we look at the situation of young people in Europe today and we are angry.
8/27/2010 - Euroean youth has to join forces to help developing countries
We have different backgrounds, our countries have different histories and when we join we can learn from each other. In this way we can avoid making the same mistakes more than once. There are many countries that are a lot less developed than the European ones. When European youth join forces, we should be able to help developing countries.
8/27/2010 - NGO statement from World Youth Conference
208 youth people from 153 countries representing youth of the world have made a statement that you can read here.
8/24/2010 - Moving of the office still in the process
The summer is almost over, our volunteers Janika, Alari and Sanja have left the office and are up to new challenges in their lives. The new volunteers: Tadas, Eliina and Alyona are coming in the middle of September 2010 but before that, Active office has to be completely moved to Stockholm. We are moving these days, the furnitures are at both places, the Secretary General as well and that is why it takes us a bit longer time to answer emails. We apologize for that and wish us good luck with moving so everything is back to normal state and speed.
8/11/2010 - Active has a new board
Active Congress 2010 has elected new Active board for the period 2010 - 2012
8/10/2010 - Call for political officer
Active wants to open a position of political officer working part time.
7/28/2010 - About Active on slides
What is Active about? We have summed it up and put on slides. Check it out and if you want it in ppt, contact the office.
7/27/2010 - The nomination committee is done
Are you curious who is nominated for the next Active board? It is public now. The nomination committee is done with their part of job and we have the suggestion for the Active board 2010-2012.
7/26/2010 - Throw the dice against tobacco
Active has produced a board game which will be introduced in Experience2010. “Throw the dice against tobacco” is a fun interactive board game through which the players can learn a lot about tobacco on the global scale. It can be played with up to 5 players with a minimum age of 12 years. In the game you are responsible for your own country and with some knowledge, luck and strategic thinking you will lead your country to be a healthy non-smoking community.
7/26/2010 - Youth Anti-alcohol campaign in Ukraine
Our member organisation Better from Ukraine is doing great job to reduce alcohol consumption among ukrainian youth by popularizing healthy life style and raising awareness about impacts of alcohol consumption. The campaign is very complex and consists of blogs, info materials, street actions, workshops, seminars and trainings for youth in aga between 14 - 25 years.
7/22/2010 - 20th anniversary party
We have been talking about it since January - this year is our 20th anniversary which we will celebrate in Fredrikstad, Norway.. We hope you will join us on 2nd of August 2010.
7/19/2010 - Looking for Fredrikstad?
The Experience 2010 committee has put together a downloadable travel guide for helping you to find Fredrikstad.
7/13/2010 - Holiday blog from the office
The office was closed for one week due to holidays. Yes..the volunteers have holidays too. So here is the blog entry from Alari about the life outside the walls of the office building.
7/13/2010 - Head up in Switzerland in Albanian
IOGT Switzerland has a very attractive prevention website with games and tests where one can ask psychologists questions about drug and alcohol related issues. The webpage has been untill now only in german language but not anymore. As there are many immigrants from Kosovo living in Switzerland, the webpage was translated into Albanian.