Ceremony of the Brandenburg Prevention Award: ‘What’s on your mind? What would you like to change?‘

The Brandenburg Prevention Award of 2024 was announced as a creative competition and is directed specifically to young students between the ages of 6 to 21 years.

According to the main theme of the 29th DPT congress “Security in Change”, the students were asked to present their thoughts and feelings as well as their experiences in the context of ‘security’ in a creative way.  The main goal of the contest was to express how students can make a change and increase their perception of safety not only for themselves but for people around them.

To promote the creative competition all schools and other social institutions in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, were contacted directly as well as sending newsletters to social school workers. The schools and interested persons handed in their contributions between December 20, 2023, and March 15, 2024. A cross-departmental jury nominated the award winners out of 74 submitted contributions, among whom the price money of a total of 7.500 Euro will be shared.

As part of the ceremony at the 29th DPT, Mr. Michael Stübgen, Interior Minister of Brandenburg and Chairman of the Brandenburg State Prevention Council, will honour the awardees during the ceremony.