The YES Press Release for the EU Youth Award 2012 winner event in Graz, Austria 22-24 November 2012

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Brussels, Belgium
Friday, November 30th, 2012
PRESS RELEASE
“YES – European Confederation of Young Entrepenreurs,
representing the Young Entrepreneurs of the European
Union, is proud to have been a Knowledge Partner of EYA
Festival 2012, a special event celebrating europe's best e-
content designers for their taking action on the MDGs.
Sparkling European Youth Award Festival 2012 (EYA)
3 days dedicated to Youth Engagement, Innovation and
Design!
November 22-24, Graz, Austria! UNESCO City of Design, Human
Rights City. The European Youth Festival!
The European Youth Award (eu-youthaward.org) selects and
promotes Europe´s best practice in e-content. It demonstrates
young European’s potential to create outstanding digital
contents and serves as a platform for people from all EU and UN
member states to work together in the efforts to reach the MDGs
(Millennium Development Goals) and contribute to the EU Digital
Agenda and the future of ICTs in Europe.
From Thursday 22nd until Sunday 24th, at the EYA Festival 2012
students from Spain, Finland, Denmark and Austria demonstrated
their winning projects' based on criteria like usability, design and
improvements. Before that, the students mixed up in groups and
worked together learning a lot about the MDGs, the winners and, of
course, about the projects they competed against.
YES – EUROPEAN CONFEDERATION OF YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS
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On Friday the 23rd November, the 12 winning teams presented
their project to the EYA audience and judges of the EYA grand jury.
Jury member like James Norwood, Dimitris Tsigos, Cai Melakoski
and Stella Tembisa Ndabeni Abrahams, Deputy Minister of
Communications from South Africa had to decide which project will
be the Overall Winner of the European Youth Award 2012. After
long discussions the project with the best design, interactivity and
MDGs was found – It was I Mirabilia!, a project with 3 special dolls
for hospitalized children, by Erika Rossi
(http://www.erikarossi.com/wordpress/)
Next to this award, the city of Graz decided on their own special
winner. The Special Graz Award for the best business project went
to the team of Mladiinfo, a resource point for free education
(http://www.mladiinfo.com/).
Mr.Dimitris Tsigos, President of YES, was also a speaker in a
special session titled “Social Innovation & Youth Entrepreneurship in
Europe”, sharing the Confederation’s expertise and vision about
youth Entrepreneurship in Europe.
About the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs - YES
European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs is the major association of young
entrepreneurs throughout Europe representing 40.000 members and aiming to
support and improve the economic and social performance of young entrepreneurship
in Europe. As such, it is the largest dynamic network of entrepreneurs, which
constantly expands its activities, while participating in international networks like the
G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance. Learn more at www.yes.be. press@yes.be,
www.twitter.com/yes_ecye, www.facebook.com/yes.europe
YES – EUROPEAN CONFEDERATION OF YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS
www.yes.be | secretariat@yes.be | http://twitter.com/yes_ecye
Rue Vautier, 54, B - 1050 Brussels, Belgium, Tel +32 22803425