Winners

1st prize: Luxembourg - @RealTime WW1

@RealTime WW1 is a project by students on the Master's programme in European Contemporary History at the University of Luxembourg. Since the beginning of 2014, they have been posting brief accounts of life during the First World War on the Twitter account @RealTimeWW1, ‘not as a story of winners and losers, but as a time when many mothers felt the same fear for their sons in military hospitals, regardless of their nationality. In which men on all fronts write similar love letters without knowing whether they will ever see the addressee again. In which soldiers sing the same Christmas carols across the trenches and pray the same Lord's Prayer – only in different languages.’ The students break down the grand narrative of the First World War into small personal stories, making it comprehensible today. By sharing a few sentences each day, they open up a new perspective on today's political and social priorities – through the eyes of soldiers, nurses, students, artists, farmers and activists, all equally hopeful that the war will soon be over for them. @RealTime WW1 now has more than 8,700 readers.

3rd prize – for the following three projects:

Austria – Social Soccer Club The Social Soccer Cup (SSC) is an international football tournament for youth and social institutions from all over Europe. It is organised by young people at the ClickIn youth centre for young people from other countries. The aim is to bring young people from different European countries together to break down prejudices and initiate further joint projects. socialsoccercup.at

Cyprus – Entrepreneurship, the Solution Against Unemployment Entrepreneurship, the Solution Against Unemployment was a multilateral youth exchange project that promoted discussion among young participants. The main topics were unemployment, emigration, entrepreneurship and non-formal education.

Spain - Infoactualidad Infoactualidad is the online newspaper of the Faculty of Information Sciences (Complutense University of Madrid) with 140 journalism students as reporters. Since it was launched in 2012, more than 400 students have benefited from it during their studies. Infoactualidad has a network of ‘Erasmus student correspondents’ throughout Europe.