Europeana, Europe’s digital museum, library, gallery and archive is calling all Form 1 and 2 students to participate in its nation-wide Story Writing Competition by expressing what Malta’s European Cultural Heritage means to them, before 27thOctober at 16:00hrs. The writer of the best story will be awarded with a Google Nexus 7 tablet, while the top twenty stories will be published in an ebook by Europeana, especially designed to mark the students’ participation in this competition. The ebook will be launched during the National Book Fest in November.

 

In order to participate in the competition, Form 1 and 2 students across the Maltese islands are required to find an image from www.europeana.eu that they think represents them as Maltese-European citizens. They then need to write a story of between 200 and 350 words in Maltese or English about their chosen image and give it a catchy title. Participants must submit their story by uploading the application form accessible at www.acrosslimits.com/Europeana-Story-Template.docx. The competition closing date is 27thOctoberat 16:00hrs.

The competition is a key element of Europeana’snational campaign to introduce the people of Malta to the cultural treasures of Europeana, where you can go online on your PC, tablet or mobile to find more than 29 million items from 2,300 leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings can all be discovered.

Speaking about the competition, the Executive Director of Europeana, Jill Cousins said: “We’re looking forward to reading all the students’ essays and to finding out what their European cultural heritage means to them. Through the competition we want to introduce Malta’s secondary school students to the cultural treasures available at Europeana.eu which is much more than just an archive of information. It creates new ways for everyone to engage with their cultural history, whether it's for work, learning or play.”

The writers of the best twenty essays will be invited to join Europeana’s stand during the National Book Fest where Europeana will award the winners and launch the ebook.

For more information about the competition, students may send an email to [email protected] or phone 21224900.

The Europeana website and the ‘Malta in Europe – Europeana’ Facebook page are accessible at www.europeana.eu and www.facebook.com/EuropeanaMalta, respectively. You are also invited to follow Europeana on Twitter@europeanaeu and #AllezCulture.