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Youth Essay Prize Competition Awards Its First Finalists and Launches a New Call for Entries

Thursday, 29 June 20176068 views

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On 28 June, the first finalists of the international Youth Essay Prize Competition, Dinu Codreanu and Bogdan Cuza, received their awards at the Swedish Embassy in Chișinău. The prizes were presented by Ambassador Signe Burgstaller and Adrian Lupușor of the Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup”.

The two winners received certificates of merit and a set of books, “Deepening EU-Moldova Relations: What? Why? How?”. Their essays went through a rigorous selection process monitored by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, with dozens of young people from Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova taking part. CEPS senior researcher Michel Emerson praised the professionalism of Dinu Condreanu's policy analysis and the maturity with which Bogdan Cuza treated the EU from a high-school student's perspective. Ambassador Burgstaller said Sida will keep supporting young Moldovans.

A second call is now open, with 4 prizes of EUR 500 for the best essays. The new deadline is 31 August 2017. Essays must be in English, analytical and argumentative, and no longer than 3,000 words. The competition is part of a Sida-funded project on the EU's Association Agreements and DCFTAs with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, which Expert-Grup has implemented in Moldova for over 2 years.

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