A jury of European experts has selected twelve nominees, three in each of the four age group categories. The nominees will be invited to attend a prize-giving ceremony which will take place in Brussels in September 2007.

The theme of this year’s school competition focused on three areas: saving energy solutions in the students’ immediate environment; design and materials influencing energy consumption and renewable energy as a key solution to the energy needs of tomorrow.

Participants in the competition had to produce a poster, a slogan and a short explanatory text in English, French or German.

The evaluation of the entries was organised in two stages. The first stage aimed to shortlist the best 120 entries from the four categories and involved a group of European teachers. A jury of experts took part in the second evaluation round. They selected three nominees for each category. Both teacher group and jury used common evaluation criteria: topic relevance, originality and visual and communicative impact.

The jury was impressed by the concepts the participants incorporated into their visuals and texts, and the type of messages they convey. The wide variety of visual and artistic techniques and the various creative solutions, which were envisaged by the participants to illustrate the three thematic areas, was highly appreciated by the jury.

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