On February 26-28, 2021, European Horizons (an EU co-funded project – ERASMUS+), is proud to host the 2021 European Horizons Policy Competition in partnership with the City of New Orleans. This Urban Environmental Policy Competition enables young professionals and students to make an impact, pitch their policy proposals to decision-makers and policy experts and win $2000!
EUHPC will discuss the ever-changing disruptive forces that endanger our urban hubs and recompose geopolitical ties while delving into New Orleans’ sustainability challenges. Both topics are of paramount significance in the 3rd millennial society. Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, the Birthplace of Jazz music seeks to engage with the steadily growing threats of flooding issues, more frequent storms, sinking of soil and enhance human and community resilience. The European Horizons Policy Competition aims at answering these fast-growing tussles and bringing together ambitious students who want to grow their policy-writing skills. In this two-round competition, students will be asked to design a viable policy solution to key issues of our stakeholder: the City of New Orleans’ Office of Resilience and Sustainability (ORS).
They will craft policy memos containing their policy recommendations, and, if selected, will give a presentation to our panel of judges. EUHPC takes place fully online; participants will compete to solve case studies provided by our partner using policy to address some of the environmental issues facing New Orleans.
Key information:
• When: 26-28th February
• Submission of the policy memo outlining their solution by 1 AM CET on Sunday, February 28th / 7 PM EST on Saturday, February 27th
• Apply: Fill out an application here – (Participation fee $20) – Deadline is on the 19th. As a late 14th Feb present, we will ship you conference package with European Horizons merchandise upon your registration (value 31 USD)
• You can apply as teams of 3-4 participants or as individuals
• The competition is a great opportunity to develop policy skills, engage with real-life sustainability issues AND have a real-life impact as our partner, the Office of Resilience and Sustainability in the City of New Orleans, has kindly agreed to consider the solutions proposed by the winning teams for implementation! In addition, the winners will also receive a monetary prize!
>> As a final outcome, the winning policy solutions will be implemented by our stakeholders
Key Partner: the City of New Orleans’ Office of Resilience and Sustainability (ORS)
KeyNote speaker: Ramsey Green, Deputy CAO of Infrastructure and director of the Office of Sustainability and Resilience
Local focus: European Horizons has a local chapter at Tulane University
Your entries will be judged first by a panel of editors from the European Horizons Policy Portfolio and in the second round by a high-level expert panel. The deadline for application to the competition is February 19th at 23:59 PM CET/February 20th at 5:59 AM EST.