Young Lions competitions are a unique training programme for all young brand communication professionals* that develop their healthy ambition and ability to create excellent communications solutions.

The only platform where young professionals can find out how good they are compared to their peers, develop their creative and personal excellence and accelerate their career development.

If you love it and you’re serious about it, you come back every year to take a challenge again, discover more, learn more and succeed.

Young Lions are for everyone working in the communication industry. From newbies to seniors, from clients organisations to agencies to freelancers.

Young Lions competitions are once a year opportunity to form a team of two and alongside with their peers take a 24 hours challenge to create an excellent communication solution on the client’s brief and submit their work online. The clients are usually non-profit projects, charity or social causes. Participants can choose one of five different categories – Digital, Marketers, Media, PR, Print. Each category has its specifics and brings a different challenge. Some categories limit who is eligible for entry.

A few days later, teams pitch their ideas in 5 minutes to the jury and get specific feedback from the most respected professionals from our industry. If they scored among the bests – the medalists, they win a place in Winners Camp. It’s 2 days packed with masterclasses and practical training with world-class professionals. Winning Young Lions means gaining a coveted award closely watched by the whole industry.

Powerful learning through experience by working under time pressure.

Young Lions develop competencies in communication, cooperation, creative and critical thinking, problem-solving, decision making, getting things done, pitching, and presenting. Their provides group and individual feedback sessions and create an invaluable experience for personal and professional self-reflection.

Participants can choose one of five different categories. Each category has its specifics and brings a different challenge. Some categories limit who is eligible for entry. All details can be found on individual categories pages.