European Year of Creativity and Innovation (EYCI) 2009: Award ceremony of the "Imagine a new world" photo competition

Photographers from Hungary, France and United Kingdom have won the EU photo competition organised in the framework of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation with the theme "Imagine a new world". The winning photographers will receive their prizes today in Brussels and their works put on display.

The European Commission received 5,000 photographs from 1500 photographers in response to its June announcement of a photo competition for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 with the theme "Imagine a New World". Professional and amateur photographers of all ages, from across the EU candidate countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, were eligible. Photographers were encouraged to provide an original work where they express their vision of a "new world" and show what creativity and innovation means to them.

To read more about this competition visit the European Commission's website.