You can upload your story from 15.06.2018 onwards.

All submissions must be received by September 16^th, 2018.

Please use the submission sheet on our website. A preview sheet is available here.

The competition is targeted to all refugees and migrants as well as trainers/multipliers and volunteers working with refugees and migrants.

Please prepare the following materials:

• A recorded story as audio file (allowed formats are mp3, ogg, aac)
• A written English summary (3 to 5 sentences) of your story to be filled in the submission sheet

We collect all kind of non-fictional and fictional stories that meet the following criteria:

• Duration: 2 to 5 minutes
• Languages: English, German, Swedish, Greek, Italian, French
• Recorded story (audio file in mp3, ogg or aac)

Feel free to add sound or music to your story – this is not mandatory and will not give extra points but might make your story more vivid.

You can tell your story in German, Greek, English, French, Italian or Swedish.

You can tell any kind of stories as long as they have relevance to the topic of the LISTEN project.

Your story can be a memory or experience you want to share as well as a fairy-tale or a legend (from your home country). The story can also be your (life) story or an invented one.

In the submission sheet we ask for a very short profile and a written summary of your story, in order to have a little context to your story.

By submitting a project, you accept that LISTEN is entitled to publish the submitted projects on the internet or in other media also in modified form, and that your data can be electronically processed and published.

Sound sources can be used if it is made by your own, if the author has given his/her explicit consent, or if they are freely accessible sources such as on soundcloud.

All submissions must be in line with European copyright laws. Short quotes may be used if the source is clearly listed.

Your submissions shall contain no statements, facts, information or quotes which are hurtful to or disparaging of individuals or groups. Your submissions shall contain no statements, facts, information or quotes on the basis of which people can be persecuted due to the colour of their skin, their opinions, nationality, gender, profession or conviction. Your submissions shall not encourage others to commit crimes or violate laws.

The jury will nominate two winners – one for the fictional and one for the non-fictional stories.
You can win precious prizes such as smartphone or headphones.

The prize cannot be redeemed in cash.

With your permission your story will become part of our LISTEN collection of (life) stories.

Your story will be evaluated by an independent jury according to the following criteria. Your story:

• has a story structure (with beginning, middle/climax, end)
• contains a message
• creates a bond with the listener
• has relevance with the LISTEN context

The jury determines two winners – one for each category.

No appeal is admissible against the jury’s decision.

We will get in touch with you in mid September 2018.

LISTEN stands for Learning from Intercultural Storytelling and is a 2-year project (01-12-2016 – 30-11-2018) funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme. The LISTEN consortium aims to develop innovative tools for applied storytelling in order to empower refugees and migrants by giving them a voice. By recording, collecting and broadcasting stories of refugees and migrants the LISTEN project aims to integrate them in their receiving countries and to build intercultural bridges.

The LISTEN award is organised by the project partnership LISTEN consisting of:

• BUPNET GmbH, Germany
• blinc eG, Germany
• Verein Multikulturell, Austria
• Active Citizens Partnership, Greece
• Communtiy Action Dacorum, United Kindom
• CESIE, Italy
• Skellefteå kommun, Sweden