Altiero Spinelli Prize for Outreach 2018 open for applications

The European Commission has launched the Altiero Spinelli Prize for Outreach for 2018. This year's edition of the Prize focuses on young people. Deadline for submitting proposals is January 7, 2019. Up to five prizes of € 25,000 will be awarded. Individuals (natural persons) who are EU citizens and non-governmental legal entities established and based in an EU Member State may apply.

The Prize will reward the following types of work:

• Innovative and practice-oriented educational programmes or campaigns and/or Massive Online Open Courses;
• Games (offline and/or online) with pedagogic purposes allowing young participants to experience Europe and its functioning in practice;
• Collaborative projects and action-based activities promoting the concrete participation of young people in the democratic processes that shape the future of the EU, and their active engagement with European common values;
• or combinations of such works.

Following the 30th anniversary of the death of Altiero Spinelli, one of the founding fathers of the Union, and on the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the European Parliament established the Altiero Spinelli Prize for Outreach in order to encourage, reward and provide European level recognition and visibility to high-quality contributions which:

• promote knowledge of the European Union and a critical reflection on its past, present and future among non-specialist audiences and the general public;
• enhance citizens' understanding of the values, objectives and benefits of the European integration process and of the enormous accomplishments of the European Union, but also of the failures, contradictions and dilemmas;
• propose, test and assess innovative approaches and materials that European and national policy-makers, practitioners, civil society organisations and institutions can use to better inform, educate and inspire citizens and help them develop critical awareness of the European Union and a sense of belonging to it;
• expose anti-Union populist myths on various aspects of the European integration process, including extremist rhetoric based on intolerance and misinformation about the legitimacy, competences and actual work of the European institutions.