The award ceremony of the Denmark in Your Eyes 2024 painting contest was held on April 2 in Hanoi. The competition is organized annually by the Viet Nam – Denmark Friendship Association in coordination with the Embassy of Denmark in Viet Nam.
Under the theme 'Green Initiatives', the contest this year is to encourage school children to learn more about environmental and climate challenges as well as to share their initiatives, thoughts, and visions for how to protect the environment and natural resources.
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| Danish Ambassador to Viet Nam Nicolai Prytz delivers the speech. Photo: Mai Anh |
In his opening speech at the award ceremony, Danish Ambassador to Viet Nam Nicolai Prytz, stressed that Viet Nam and Denmark have a long-standing and successful partnership in the field of green growth and green transformation towards a sustainable society.
In this cooperation journey, Denmark in Your Eyes painting contest is considered an opportunity to deepen the friendship and create conditions for the young generation of Viet Nam to participate in and make efforts to transform the country’s green.
Within the framework of this year’s competition, the contest received a total of 24,600 paintings from students across Viet Nam. “The competition is a valuable piece, adding to the current government-level cooperation program between the two countries within the framework of the Green Strategic Partnership,” Nicolai emphasized.
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| Danish Ambassador to Viet Nam Nicolai Prytz; Le Ngoc Tuan, Deputy Director of the Department of Climate Change (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment) and Vice Chairman of the Viet Nam – Denmark Friendship Association and Nguyen Ngoc Hung, Vice President of the Viet Nam Union of Friendship Organizations hand over the prizes to the Special Prize, two First Prizes winners. Photo: Mai Anh |
Le Ngoc Tuan, Deputy Director of the Department of Climate Change (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment) and Vice Chairman of the Viet Nam – Denmark Friendship Association shared that the Denmark in Your Eyes painting contest is not only a useful playground for students across the country but also a cultural bridge between Viet Nam and Denmark, which are tens of thousands of kilometers apart. With their rich imaginations imbued with innocence and purity, students from all over the country have brought to these green ideas, vividly expressed through each drawing.
"That shows that today's young generation is very aware and very concerned about the serious challenges that humanity is facing today due to environmental pollution and climate change, but also puts their faith and hope in a green, sustainable future for humanity", Tuan emphasized.
According to Tuan, the works in the contest will be a source of inspiration for each of us to make changes in the way we live and behave towards nature. Each of those small changes, when added together, will create huge positive impacts on the whole society.
The Jury selected and awarded 74 individual prizes including one Special Prize, two First Prizes, four Second Prizes, eight Third Prizes, 50 Fourth Prizes and nine Promising Prizes. The Organizing Committee also awarded five Collective Prizes to the Union of Frienship Organizations of Hue city, Can Tho city and Dong Thap province along with Nguyen Sieu School and CGD School.
In particular, the Special Prize went to the work "Green World - Green Future" by Nguyen Hoang Thinh, a 6th grade student at Hanoi Victoria School.
Source: Vietnamtimes
