"Your Idea, Your NATO" policy workshop competition

Folks, This was just received from NATO. While the deadline is looming, it would be a great opportunity for someone.

The deadlines for the “Your Ideas, Your NATO” policy workshop competition are drawing near, but there’s still plenty of time to enter! Participants should write a 600-800 word article in one of three categories: by February 23 in the Values and Community category, by March 15 in the Partnerships after the Arab Spring category, and by April 5 in the Smart Defense category. Through the generous support of NATO, the US Mission to Germany and the Boell Foundation, three winners will win a trip to Berlin to present their ideas at our conference on May 21 and receive feedback from NATO. “Your Ideas, Your NATO” is unique in its aim to generate practical policy recommendations for May’s NATO Summit in Chicago, and its format mimics the decision-making of the Alliance. For young professionals and students (the contest is open to citizens 35 years and under of all NATO Member and Partner countries), this offers a fantastic opportunity to connect with their peers and decision makers from throughout the transatlantic community. We are looking for realistic policy proposals on how to increase awareness of NATO’s values, reach out to new democracies in the Arab world, and encourage states to share defense burdens more effectively. Those with the best proposals in each category will then join together to develop a single policy memo, mirroring the unanimous decisions necessary in NATO policy making. For more information please see the main competition page: http://www.atlantic-community.org/index/articles/view/Your_Ideas%2C_Your_NATO If you need some help getting started, check out our reading recommendations: http://www.atlantic-community.org/index/articles/view/Your_Ideas%2C_Your_NATO%3A_A_Closer_Look_at_the_Issues Atlantic-community.org is the Open Think Tank for Foreign Policy with more than 6500 members. Our mission is to give a voice to a new generation of thinkers and to contribute to a more diverse transatlantic strategic community. It is a project of Atlantic Initiative, a Berlin-based independent and non-partisan organization dedicated to strengthening transatlantic relations and building a culture of constructive foreign policy debate.