Θέμα: European Inventors Week - Possible Collaboration and chance to win a drone or a flight to Brussels!

Dear All,

My name is Olga. I'm a representative of ThinkYoung [1], a Brussels-based NGO and Think Tank working on youth-related projects.

The European Commission is supporting us in the organisation of the first European Inventors Week which will take place between the 7th and the 13th of November. The European Inventors Week is born from the success of our previous #HiddenInventors [2] Campaigns. This initiative will be under the Patronage of the European Commission and specifically of the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel.

For your reference, the 1st campaign was launched in 2020. The 2021-2022 edition involved 5 Ambassadors (Members of the European Parliament); 34 outdoor billboards around EU Institutions in Brussels portraying the ideas of 6 young students; the dedicated website that had more than
7.000 total visitors and counting; 2 Live Q&A Sessions with inventors and 2 Live Discussions with Policymakers; and a research report on divergent thinking across Europe, collecting best practices and recommendations to foster inventiveness.

_This year, the European Inventors Week aims at ensuring that inventors are recognised, and their rights protected, to foster an environment of inventiveness and innovation in addition to inspiring young Europeans from all backgrounds to harness their imagination and recognise the hidden inventor within themselves for the benefit of society. _

We believe that your activities could be aligned with the values and objectives of the European Inventors Week and thus we would like to invite you to join our European Inventors Week.

To join this great celebration, we propose the following potential
actions:

* Organise/host an event during the week (7-13 November) or during October/November. The event can be a conference, a webinar, or even a conversation with young people. It can be something you are already working on, it doesn't need to be something new created from scratch.
The topics can cover any area related with invention, innovation, start-ups, entrepreneurship, environment, digital, IPR etc or even just a brief discussion about European Inventors and the importance of European Union in providing the right environment for inventors and innovation to prosper (TY can provide the resources to guide the discussions).

* TY will then ask you to provide all the relevant information about the event in order to share it on the European Inventors Week dedicated website (still under construction), creating a mapping of all the events happening around Europe at that time and giving it visibility also through TY social media channels and media outlets.

* Share/Retweet the TY content in your social media accounts by using the communications toolkit we will provide in advance (we can provide you with ready-made visual assets and other useful resources).

Summing it up, you are given the flexibility to organise any type of event according to your calendar and your resources, contributing not only to the massive conversation on the European Inventors Week, but also to the European Year of Youth.

Lastly, attached to this email you can find an open call, as we decided to launch a competition and award the 8 best events from all the organisations that will participate in this year's European Inventors Week.

We would be happy to have you on board for this great journey. We could gladly schedule a call to discuss further the European Inventors Week
2022 and how you can be part of it.

Don't hesitate to ask me questions if you don't understand something. I will be happy to answer and help you.

Kind regards,

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Olga Khitsevych

_Project assistant _

Office +32 (0) 2 608 82 10 [3]
Mobile +347 0227797
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[1] https://www.thinkyoung.eu/
[2] https://www.thinkyoung.eu/inventors
[3] tel:+32+(0)2+608+82+10
[4] http://www.thinkyoung.eu/
[5] http://www.facebook.com/thinkyoung
[6] https://twitter.com/ThinkYoungNGO
[7] https://www.instagram.com/thinkyoung.ngo/
[8] https://www.youtube.com/user/ThyAudiovisualLab
[9] https://www.linkedin.com/company/thinkyoung/