The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) Call for Projects 2012 is now over. This year´s edition was a success: more than 1150 young social entrepreneurs from 121 different countries registered!

Thanks poster by the WSYA team

The Youth Award web site has published the thanks of the WSYA team all involved. We are proud TAMK Art and Media is recognised as one of the key partners:

"Organizations, foundations, youth networks, universities, media, bloggers and individuals, THANK YOU ALL for spreading the word in all UN member states. WSYA has been featured in 120 articles from 35 countries worldwide! Your commitment to support and promote all those working to get action on the MDGs is unique and mostly appreciated!

Special thanks goes to our key partners: Mladiinfo, Future Challenges, iEarn-USA, StartSomeGood, Creative Industries Styria, TAMK Art and Media, TakingITGlobal, WUPY, ICT for Development / Comminit, Youth Movements and WCIT 2012 as well as to our great network of friends who helped us with translation, namely Abdullah Mosaad, Francesca Ronchi, Alex Hung, Sebastian Bustamente and Olga Kocherzhuk."

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The 18 winning teams will be invited to the WSYA Winners' Event 2012, which will take place in the framework of the 18th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2012) from October 22nd until October 24th in Montréal, city of Design, Business and Media, Canada.

Stay tuned, we will publish some news about the European Youth Award, the European dimension of WSYA, soon.

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