The winner of the “Open Call for Young Designers: 2021 Western Balkans Berlin Summit Logo Competition” is a young designer from Albania, Dei Hasko. Mr Hasko, expressed his gratitude to the organisers and highlighted the importance of a connected Western Balkans where young people thrive with their creative ideas.

The logo competition was opened from 24 March to 7 April 2021 and invited young people (from 18 to 30 years old) from the Western Balkans to design the logo of this year’s Western Balkans Berlin Process Summit, which will be hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel this summer.

Around 170 young designers submitted more than 300 entries to the competition, and the selection committee had to choose the three best entries. The awarding ceremonies for the second and the third prize winners will occur at the premises of the German embassies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia in the upcoming days. The ceremonies will be attended by the awarded young designers, representatives of the German Government and RYCO.

The Berlin Process was initiated by the German government to promote regional cooperation of the Western Balkans and support the EU’s enlargement policy. The first summit was organised on 28 August 2014 in Berlin. It was followed by summits in Vienna (2015), Paris (2016), Trieste (2017), London (2018), Poznan (2019) and Sofia (2020).