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Winners of the Second Call of the Youth Essay Prize Competition Announced

Wednesday, 27 December 20175979 views
Winners of the Second Call of the Youth Essay Prize Competition Announced

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The Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup”, in partnership with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, has announced the results of the second call of the Youth Essay Prize Competition. It ran from 15 May to 30 August 2017 in Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia, the three countries with Association Agreements and DCFTAs with the EU.

Of the 77 essays submitted, four were awarded prizes of EUR 500 each. The winners are Victoria Romanov (17, Rezina, Moldova), Anastasia Menshykova (19, Odesa, Ukraine), Svetlana Zub (27, Uzhorod, Ukraine) and Elene Panchulidze (25, Tbilisi, Georgia). Their essays are available on the website.

In the first call, the finalists were two young Moldovans, Dinu Codreanu and Alexandru Cuza, who received their certificates at an event hosted by the Embassy of Sweden in the Republic of Moldova. The competition is part of the project on understanding the Association Agreements and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (DCFTAs) between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. It is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and coordinated by CEPS, together with IER Kyiv, Reformatics Tbilisi and Expert-Grup.

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