{"id":2599,"date":"2018-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/cee\/news\/moldova-is-the-winner-of-the-danube-art-master-competition-2018\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:13:16","slug":"moldova-is-the-winner-of-the-danube-art-master-competition-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwpo-gwp.org\/cee\/archive\/moldova-is-the-winner-of-the-danube-art-master-competition-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova is the winner of the Danube Art Master Competition 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201dEverything that man touched, has been transformed into a closed ecosystem!\u201d is  the name of the winning artwork. Its creator, Ion Zatic, is a student at the Corjova School, Moldova. Concerned about the damage to natural habitats caused by industrialization and urbanization, he appeals to put more efforts into to preserving the natural ecosystems instead of creating artificial ones.<\/p>\n

Category Artwork<\/strong><\/p>\n

 \"Danube-Art-Master-winner-2-2018\"The Danube Art Master winner is selected by 13 countries, which share the Danube River Basin, including Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. The competition is open to all children and schools across the 14 countries that make up the Danube River Basin. Around 1109 children from 142 schools participated, submitting about 401 artworks and 60 videos including team submissions.<\/p>\n

 Second and third places went to 13-year-old Anais K\u00f6nig of Austria for her project, \u201cInspired by the Danube\u201d, and Sara \u0110uka, Tamara Petrovi\u0107 and Marija Ra\u0161kovi\u0107 from Prva Beogradska Gimnazija, Belgrade, Serbia for their project titled \u201cPlay by the Danube\u201d. Anais K\u00f6nig is a student at the Lyc\u00e9e Fran\u00e7ais in Vienna. Her artwork shares her unique perspective as a photographer. \u201cPlay by the Danube\u201d represents a\"Danube-Art-Master-winner-3-2018\" mixture of different materials – waste, beautiful flowers, bird feathers and was inspired by the contrast of the Zemun Quay on the Danube in Belgrade, where the artwork was created.<\/p>\n

Category Video <\/strong><\/p>\n

In the video category, a group from Slovakia won with the short video \u201cWe are Danube\u201d<\/a> created by Katar\u00edna Kov\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1, Ag\u00e1ta Klime\u0161ov\u00e1, Denis Ger\u017ea and Linda V\u00e1ro\u0161ov\u00e1 from the Design School in Bratislava. Their message is that the Danube is an important natural habitat for many animals, plays a significant role in people\u2019s lives and creates a strong bond among the countries that share the Danube, a bond that people should appreciate and cherish.<\/p>\n

Second place in the video category was awarded to a group of 8th<\/sup> and 9th<\/sup> grade students from Bulgaria for \u201cCleaning and restocking with baby trouts of Bely Vit river for a healthier Danube\u201d<\/a>. The creators are Brian Mikov, Victorya Petrova, Borislav Christov, Ralitsa Boteva, Eleonora Lyubomirova, Ivan Ivanov, Ralitsa Toneva, Kalinna Naidenova, Radosvetta Krassimirova, Ralitsa Stoyanova, Andrea Raikova, Tsarinna Nickolova, Victor Nickolaev, Nickol Atanassova from the Eco-club \u201cGreen Ideas for Tourism\u201d at Georgi Benkovsky Comprehensive school in Teteven.<\/p>\n

Third place was awarded to Germany. A team of international School exchange students from Anton-Bruckner-Gymnasium in Straubing, Germany and Brucknergymnasium Wels, Austria won for their video, \u201cDonauforscher\u201d<\/a>, which deals with the subject of water pollution by microplastics.<\/p>\n

The competition <\/strong><\/p>\n

On International Danube Day on 29 June 2018, the \u201cInternational Danube Art Master 2018\u201d competition was announced. The theme of the competition was based on the motto of the year\u2019s Danube Day \u2013 \u201cGet active for a healthier Danube\u201d – the second of the three pillars of the Danube Declaration 2016, advocating cleaner, healthier, safer waters for everyone to enjoy.<\/p>\n

 The competition encourages children to think about the value and importance of their local rivers, environments and the Danube River Basin specifically. Entrants must use materials from those environments to create artworks that present the water situation of their respective countries.<\/p>\n

 The competition was jointly organized by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR)<\/a> and the Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe (GWP CEE), an ICPDR observer organisation and one of the largest networks focusing on water in the world.<\/p>\n

 \u201cDanube Art Master 2018 witnessed the participation of 13 countries sharing the Danube River Basin. This competition is a golden opportunity for children and teenagers to demonstrate their deep connection with the Danube and a reminder for us adults of our duty to protect it for generations to come\u201d said ICPDR Executive Secretary Ivan Zavadsky about the competition.<\/p>\n

Source: ICPDR<\/a><\/p>\n

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VIENNA, 29 October 2018 — The winner of the \u2018International Danube Art Master 2018\u2019 competition is 17-year-old Ion Zatic of Moldova, announced Susanne Brandstetter, Chairperson of the Public Participation Expert Group of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR). The Public Participation Expert Group is responsible for promoting the Danube Art Master initiative in the Danube River Basin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","tag-central-and-eastern-europe"],"acf":[],"spectra_custom_meta":{"_sidebar_content":["field_69d4d421acab1"],"sidebar_content":["

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