EC launches European Entrepreneurship Video Awards 2010

TIRANA, Jan 20ؔhe search is on for Europe’s most creative film on what it takes to be an entrepreneur. For the second time, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry is inviting imaginative filmmakers to participate in the European Entrepreneurship Video Awards (EEVA 2010). Participants can register until 9 April 2010 at http://ec.europa.eu/eeva2010.
The European Entrepreneurship Video Award is divided into the following categories: ‘Entrepreneurship – A different way of life’, ‘Entrepreneurship – Challenges and rewards’ and ‘Entrepreneurship – The way into the future’. Prizes of 3,333 euro, 2,222 euro and 1,111 euro will be awarded respectively to the winner, the second placed and the third placed video in each category. In addition, five of the best contestants aged 25 or younger who have not qualified for one of the nine prizes in the above named categories will be awarded 555 euro each.
The competition is open to all natural and legal persons who are citizens or residents of a Member State of the European Union, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Turkey and Israel.
The European Entrepreneurship Video Awards are part of European SME Week, an initiative aimed at promoting entrepreneurship across Europe and informing entrepreneurs in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) about the support available for them at European, national, regional and local level.