Young Lions training programme is a unique learning experience and the excellent opportunity to grow your creative talent.
Will you accept the challenge?
From marketers to aspiring creative directors, it’s a competition to suit people from every corner of the communication industry. Create a team and answer a brief set by a non-profit organisation. It is the perfect opportunity to put your talent in the spotlight.
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Young Lions
The most talented and creative professionals go head-to-head and compete against the clock to be crowned the Young Lions champions in 2019.
It takes only 24 hours from a brief to the outcome. Each team has two members from agencies, client organisations or freelancers.
In three categories, teams give a 5-minute presentation to juries. After the winners‘ announcement, Jury members provide feedback to all participants with the aim of stimulating them to think smarter and create better solutions.
Due to its format, Young Lions allow participants to find out a lot about the way they think, react, and behave under pressure.
Digital
Unleash your digital expertise under pressure and create an integrated digital led campaign.
Marketers
Create a product or service based on your own brand knowledge as well as produce a brief that answers the charity’s challenge.
Media
Demonstrate your strategic thinking and innovative approaches to solving an important marketing challenge to drive critical business success.
PR
Create an innovative PR Campaign in response to a client brief.
Showcase your creative skills as you compete in teams to produce a stand-out, captivating and unique print ad to a charity’s brief.
Timeline
Warm-up event
07 Feb 2019
at 17:00 (for Marketers)
at 18:30 (for all)
This event is going to help you better prepare for the competitions. Former winners and jury members will share their experiences and give you some tips and tricks on how to increase your chance actually to win.
Competitions
05-12 Apr 2019
The main event. The challenge that will make you work under pressure in a team and give the effort of doing the best you are capable of. It will show you how good you are and help you get better.
Winners Camp
24-26 May 2019
Not only 1st place winners but also 2nd and 3rd place winners will have a chance to be trained in this camp focused on creative and critical thinking and skills development.
Inspirational Report
Aug 2019
This (e)book will be full of inspiration for young professionals. It will review 2019, give credit to winners, show how it works in Cannes, provide tips & tricks for the competition, creativity and career development.
Learning Experience
01. Creative thinking
Find the way how to come up with the most creative and innovative ideas.
02. Working under pressure
You have only 24-hour for the creation of something extraordinary. Time is running; a clock is ticking. Learn to control your stress level.
03. Co-operation
You and your partner in the team have to find the way how to communicate clearly, come to an agreement, be productive and work efficiently.
04. Decision making
There are no clients, no your directors, only you and your partner. You judge your concepts and ideas; you select direction of your work, you make the decision.
Our Partners
& Supporters
Our partners support the development of the young generation of creative professionals and help them to grow in their ability to bring great creative ideas and innovative communication solutions needed for the commercial success of brands in today’s dynamically changing environment.
If you want to find out more about all our partners, not only general ones, go to the Partners page of to individual categories where you can find our category partners and supporters.
Médiář
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* Chart shows year by year number of teams competing