As part of the lead-in to the CREATE YOUR WORLD festival, there was competition on the subject of youthful explorers and young thinking. This is one of the winning texts.

Young thinking is inquisitive, exploratory and unconventional. The aim: coming up with that extraordinary idea. In a world of your own, a world of imagination. A place where colorful doesn’t just mean hues, and no tone sounds the way it’s expected to. To prevent what you’ve thought up from sinking into the oblivion of somewhere and sometime, you have to bring it to fruition in a promising way. But that has its limitations too. Because youthful progress strives to arrive at a destination, there’s a helpful bridge. It leads to where shared interests await fresh ideas and exceptional works meet lots of friends. There, the small world presents the big one with something unprecedented. And the big world expresses its appreciation in the form of recognition that moves things to the next level and propagates happiness. This bridge has a name: u19 Create Your World – Future Festival of the Next Generation.
Julius Lugmayr, age 16, Linz