20 young people, all 20 years of age, are the winners of the ‘Generation 1992’ creative competition. Young people from all over Europe born in 1992 (the year in which the European single market was launched) were asked to show what this vast open market meant to them. This competition is celebrated to mark the 20th anniversary of the European single market.

The ‘Generation 1992’ creative competition, in which young people from all over Europe born in 1992 (the year in which the European single market was launched) were asked to show what this vast open market meant to them, has already its winners. The European Commission launched this competition to celebrate the 20 years of the European Single Market in April 2012.

In total, 380 young people from all 27 EU countries participated in the competition. Those born in 1992 had an opportunity to express their views on the way the single market operates — doing so through photographs, video clips, articles, cartoons or indeed smartphone apps, and on any one of four themes. The four categories of the competition were: Education and citizenship (comprising 43% of the projects submitted); Jobs and entrepreneurship (17%); Culture and leisure (27%); and Consumers and the environment (13%).

Commissioner Michel Barnier and Toine Manders MEP will personally present the awards at a prize-giving ceremony; for all 20 winners, their prize includes a traineeship in the European institutions. The winners will be presented on the occasion of the opening of Single Market Week, that will run from 15 to 20 October 2012 and feature events organised in cities across all 27 Member States of the European Union.