Belarus: EUSEW2020 Online-competition #EUSEW20BY for the best story about clean energy in your city

Energy Days on clean and efficient energy in various formats were being organised across Europe and Eastern Partnership countries, including Belarus.This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the events moved to a new online format under the motto: “Beyond the Crisis: Clean Energy for Green Recovery and Growth”.

Along with organizing local events, the residents and the city administration representatives of the Covenant signatory cities were able to take part in two online contests held by the Belarusian office of the Covenant of Mayors – East.

The «Discovery of How Your City is Going Climate Resilient» competition was organized for the signatory cities of the European “Covenant of Mayors on Climate and Energy” initiative, dedicated to the annual Sustainable Energy Week (#EUSEW2020). The competition was opened from the 15th through 24th of June for any participants, without limitation by age or other characteristics.

To take part it was necessary:

1. Subscribe to the official CoM East Facebook and/or Instagram accounts and/or the “Interakcia” Foundation Facebook and/or Instagram.
2. Post a video or a photo story on a separate personal account in the public domain (media content on Facebook and/or Instagram stories is also considered) telling about the sources of clean energy in your area/city/urban settlement/village.
3. Mention the official Facebook and/or Instagram accounts of the CoM East project (links above) and the “Interakcia” Foundation (links above) and to #EUSEW20BY hashtag. Creativity and humor were welcomed. 

For 10 days about 21 interesting stories from Pružany, Hrodna, Viciebsk, Zelva, Braslaŭ, Karma, Baranavičy and other cities of Belarus took part in the competition. All stories were published on Facebook and Instagram, of which the jury chose 3 winners by voting.

All stories received about 1000 likes, and videos were viewed 1800 times.

The winners of the contest have published online their stories about how their cities were going climate resilient and were awarded prizes: Tatsiana Naider from Zeĺva (GoPro action camera)

Maxim Mukhin-Grodnitsky from Viciebsk (portable charger)

Evelina Shamankova from Hrodna (trypod)

Mary Mikus from Pružany and Olga Grishan from Smarhoń have got incentive prizes. All the #EUSEW20BY contestants entries that gave in total around 2000 amounts of reach (reactions, comments, likes and reposts) are available on the FB album – and are compiled on this page.