City of Frankfurt and Eurohypo AG announce pupil competition "PerfectFrankfurt2020" on PerfectCity.

How will people live, work and spend their leisure time in Frankfurt by 2020? What will Frankfurt’s urban face look like? Will Frankfurt remain a tolerant and cosmopolitan city? Answers to these and many other future questions still need to be found, so that the Main metropolis remains a modern, liveable city within the next twenty till thirty years.

To contribute to this discussion, the German city Frankfurt/Main and Eurohypo AG have created a pupil competition called “PerfectFrankfurt 2020” on PerfectCity. This competition challenges young people to generate ideas for the city of tomorrow. Pupils in the fifth grade and up, from any school in Frankfurt can take part individually, in a group or as an entire class. Frankfurt mayor Petra Roth says “Within our competition it is not urban planners, architects or politicians that are in demand, but young people. They have a lot of imagination, creativity and are not afraid to take risks to find solutions." Bernd Knobloch, CEO of Eurohypo, regards Frankfurt as an ideal environment for the competition: "Frankfurt is an international, cosmopolitan and innovative city - that is exactly the right place to create new ideas."

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