Brexit video and visual award

EU IDEA will foresee a video and visual award on Brexit to be launched in the first semester of the project The rationale behind the contest is to tell and illustrate through artistic creations videos photos any type of visual artworks how people are experiencing the envisaged exit of the UK from the EU Creations can be accompanied by short written text and will be assessed by a jury composed by the members of the Executive Board of the project and two professionals in the field of visual arts The jury will nominate two winners to whom will be guaranteed a wide diffusion of their work through all the EU IDEA dissemination channels Furthermore the winning works will be awarded and presented publicly during the final conference of the project in Brussels The contest is aimed at people between 18 and 30 years old This type of contest shall aim to foster the engagement of youth which are interested by the European affairs in many ways but are not always properly and actively involved in the public debate On Brexit the youngsters standpoints and sentiments have been little covered despite these people will be in the mediumlong term the most affected by the major implications of the process The Brexit video and visual award would like to give a contribution in filling this gap by supporting the engagement of young people through the art