The newspaper "Private Entrepreneur," with the support of the Council of Entrepreneurs under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the State Committee for Entrepreneurship, and the Department for Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Policy of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, is holding the All-Ukrainian children's drawing competition "We Are Entrepreneurs" among children aged 6 to 16. The main goal of the Competition is to foster in the younger generation a culture of running a family or independent business, to study children's opinions on the role and significance of small entrepreneurship in society, and to give children the opportunity to realize their creative abilities. Entrepreneurship is not a profession but a way of life that involves not only adults but also children. Most often, entrepreneurship is a family business. At the same time, it is the younger generation that will shape the entrepreneurial environment tomorrow. How do children see our adult entrepreneurial problems and successes? Do they see themselves as entrepreneurs in the future, or do they already have their own entrepreneurial experience? We hope to receive answers to these questions in the form of drawings. The competition accepts individual drawings made in any technique, without the use of a computer. The competition is held among children in three age categories: 6-8 years, 9-12 years, 13-16 years. Criteria for evaluating works: originality, disclosure of the theme, creative approach, neatness. The winners of the competition (first, second, and third place in each age category) will be awarded diplomas and valuable prizes. Participants of the competition will also receive incentive prizes and a viewers' choice award. Drawings for the competition are accepted from January 1 to March 31, 2006, sent to the address: 49600, Dnipropetrovsk, Myronova St. 15 – by letter containing the competition drawing with a note on the envelope "Competition," or brought directly to the editorial office of the newspaper "Private Entrepreneur." The results of the competition will be summarized in May 2006. The awarding of the winners is planned for late May – early June. The jury includes, in particular, the head of the Council of Entrepreneurs under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Ksenia Liapina, the deputy head of the State Committee for Entrepreneurship of Ukraine, Olha Sakhnenko, the head of the Department for Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Policy of the Regional State Administration, Oleh Kuzhman, and the chief artist of Dnipropetrovsk, Serhii Poliushkin.
Editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Private Entrepreneur": mailto: desk@dudnik.dp.ua mobile 8(050)572-78-02 tel. (0562)341-351 fax (0562)341-351
Contact person for the competition: Viktoriia Loboda, tel. (0562) 341-351, fax (0562) 341-355, e-mail: konkurs@dudnik.dp.ua