Objectives
British Embassy Prague is starting a new program to engage with young people across the Czech Republic, to hear their voices, and to help them develop as leaders and role models. Participants will form a diverse group of 8-10 that will work directly with the UK Ambassador through regular online meetings over a ten-month period (February – December 2024).
Who can apply
The competition welcomes Czech Republic residents aged 18 to 26 who can communicate in both English and Czech.
The primary requirement is to possess energy and ideas. While no UK connections are necessary, participants must commit to the entire program and be able to confidently engage in English discussions. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, occupations, and fields of study.
How to participate
Answer the following two questions (in English, a maximum of 300 words per answer) :
- How do you as an individual make a difference to your community, country, or the world at large? List examples of your activities, initiatives, projects, and organizations that you have been involved with. Additional links or online materials are most welcome.
- Name a single pressing issue, question, or challenge that young people are facing in the Czech Republic, and propose a potential solution for it.
How to apply
Submit your answers via this form or via ukinczechrepublic@fco.gov.uk. You should include:
- surname
- name
- nationality
- age
- present occupation
- place of residence
You must submit your answers by midnight, 18 February 2024 via the above-mentioned form or email. Once submitted, you cannot edit, update, or resubmit your application. Only one entry per person. By participating in the contest you indicate that you accept all the rules of the competition. After submission of the application, the competition participants may be publicly identified.
To participate in the competition, the participants must submit all the requested information themselves. This information will only be used for the purpose of the competition and will not be shared with third parties. The competition is not open to current employees and interns of the British Embassy Prague, nor is it open to family members of such employees and interns.
Your Application
Please, submit your answers via the online form mentioned above or as an email attachment in doc, docx, or pdf format. Each submission should include the name of the applicant.
Submissions must be original pieces, and must not include text protected by intellectual property rights or third party’s ownership rights.
Social Media
British Embassy Prague and the UK Ambassador will actively share competition updates on their social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. This comprehensive coverage encompasses details on the selection process, winner announcements, and planned activities with the winners.
Furthermore, it’s important to note that while the Embassy will email participants, they will also announce the winners across various social media platforms. It’s worth emphasizing that none of these platforms have official affiliations as partners or sponsors of the contest.
Selection of winners
The Embassy reserves the right to discount any entry to the contest that does not fulfill the requirements of the competition.
The UK Ambassador will personally oversee the selection of participants (8–10 in total), aiming for broad diversity of locations and backgrounds.
Winners
The authors of the winning submissions will win the opportunity to work directly with the UK Ambassador during monthly discussion groups with the Ambassador. These discussions will be an opportunity to gain insight into the Embassy’s work, develop communication and leadership skills, and talk about the societal and political issues that young people in the Czech Republic find important. It will be held entirely online (approx. 90 minutes per session), in a combination of English and Czech, and is not paid. The participants will also have the possibility to visit some of the events organized by the Embassy in 2024.
Winners will be announced in the week of 19 February 2024, the first online meeting is to be held by the end of February (late afternoon/evening hours).
The Embassy reserves the right to make the winning entries available online, on either the Embassy website and/or on social media.
The winners must respond to the Embassy’s email within a week. If the winner does not accept the selection, the Embassy reserves the right to reach out to the runner-up.
The prize cannot be passed on to a third person, exchanged for a different activity, or be reimbursed in monetary value.
Rights and responsibilities
- By selecting a participant, the British Embassy Prague (hereinafter “the Embassy”) does not automatically endorse the ideas in presented in their application.
- The competition and the Embassy will not support any activity violating intellectual property rights and therefore reserve the right to disqualify any submission in the contest that would be in violation of these rules.
- Contest participants will retain all the rights to their work. At the same time, participants explicitly agree to the Embassy’s use of any material related to the contest (texts from participants, photos, etc.).
- The Embassy reserves the right to check the authenticity of the submissions and remove anyone who violates the above-mentioned rules from the contest.
- The Embassy reserves the right to disqualify any contestant who violates the rules of the contest.
- The Embassy reserves the right to change the format of the program in case of outside circumstances prohibiting the execution of the afore-mentioned structure.
- The Embassy reserves the right to disqualify a person from the contest if they deem the person violated the rules of the contest, violated the rules of an online platform involved in the promotion of the contest, or otherwise acted in bad faith.
- The Embassy reserves the right to change the process of the contest or cancel the contest. Participants agree to protect the good name of the Embassy, its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates, officials, directors, employees, trainees, and agents. In case of damaging the Embassy’s interests, the participants in the contest will be responsible for all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debts; and expenses (including but not limited to legal fees) arising from (i) breaches of these official contest rules; (ii) infringement of a third party’s right, including but not limited to copyright, trademark, intellectual property, right to privacy, right of publication or other proprietary right in connection with the contest; or (iii) any claim that the contest entry has caused any harm to a third party, including financial loss. These compensation and protection obligations remain in force permanently even after the end of the contest.
- The Embassy will take all precautions to protect the Personally Identifiable Information of the participants in the contest.
- The Embassy does not accept any liability or liability for any damage or injury resulting from the participation of any user in the contest or the attempt to participate in the contest or the ability or inability to upload, download, or otherwise obtain information related to the contest.
- The Embassy does not accept any responsibility or liability for technical problems or technical failures arising in connection with the operation of the contest, including: hardware or software errors; defective computer, telephone, cable, satellite, network, electronic, wireless or internet connection or other problems with online communication; errors or limitations of any ISPs, servers, hosting providers or providers; distorted, disordered or erroneous data transmission; failure to send or receive email transmissions; lost, delayed, delayed or withheld electronic mail transmissions; complete or partial inaccessibility of the contest site for any reason; congestion of the internet network or contest site; unauthorized human intervention or other interference with the course of the contest, including but not limited to tampering, unauthorized access, theft, virus, software bugs and worms; or the destruction of any aspect of the contest or the loss, miscalculation, misdirection, inaccessibility or unavailability of the email account used in connection with the contest.
- Use of the contest website is at the user’s own risk. The Embassy is not liable for personal injury, property damage, or loss of any kind possibly suffered on the computer equipment because of participating in the contest, using the contest website, or downloading information from the contest website. By participating in the contest, the competitor relieves the Embassy of the contest of all claims arising directly or indirectly as a result of or in connection with the participation of the competitor in the contest.
- The Embassy does not hold liability for any contest delays caused by external factors like weather, fire, strike, or public health.
Sources: THX News & Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
