G20 Summit #youforG20 Worldwide  Project Competition

On the occasion of the G20 Summit, deutschland.de is organising a world-wide competition called #youforG20 – your project for an interconnected world.

Are you involved yourself or work in a team on a project that supports social commitment at the local level or contributes to improving gender equality?Your project helps to spare the environment and foster climate protection? Your project serves to promote inclusion of young people or supports social and economic entrepreneurship? Then enter it and possibly win 15,000 euros for your project!

#youforG20 rewards one project that in an especially convincing way addresses a social, environmental-policy or economic topic and helps to improve living conditions for people. They may be:

• projects that promote social commitment at the municipal level
• projects that make a contribution to more gender equality
• projects that help to protect the environment and climate
• projects that foster the inclusion of young people
• projects that promote social entrepreneurship

Application requirements

• Applications must consist of a written presentation of the project being submitted and should be no longer than 2,500 characters (preferably in English). Participation also requires a short video (approx. 3 minutes in length) outlining the submitted project. A portrait of the applicant or group representative is likewise advisable.
• The description/video must clearly communicate the objective and purpose of the project. Likewise, the application must clearly convey to what use the prize money of €15,000 will be put in terms of advancing the project. The motivation of the applicant or group of applicants should also be transparent.

The prize money of €15,000 shall be issued by the German embassy in the relevant guest country or by the Federal Foreign Office. German missions abroad reserve the right to inquire as to project progress on site.

The following are not eligible to enter the competition: staff members of the Federal Foreign Office and their relatives, staff members of Frankfurter Societäts-Medien GmbH and its partner companies and their relatives, as well as recipients of institutional funding from the Federal Foreign Office and recipients of Federal Foreign Office grants during the campaign period.

Official Link

Deadline: 28th June 2017