The second day of rehearsals just started here at the HMH Arena and the early birds were the kids from Belarus and Sweden as they're the ones who will perform first and second on Saturday's live show.

Sweden enters this year its ninth entry at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The song is called Mitt Mod which means My Courage, a courage that Lova Sönnerbo proved she has when going up on stage to rehearse it today.

It's less than a couple of weeks for our favourite date in the calendar: Junior Eurovision Day! This year's Song Contest takes place the 1st of December so we've decided to introduce our stars for you to get to know them better. Meet our star from Sweden Lova Sönnerbo.

Loreen, the winner of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, has released a message for the upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest and for one of its hosts Kim-Lian van der Meij.

The Steering Group of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and the Heads of Delegations of the participating countries of the forthcoming 2012 edition are gathered here in Amsterdam where the draw for the running order is just taking place!

Lova Sönnerbo has been picked as the winner of the Swedish national selection this year and will thus represent them in Amsterdam!

The Swedish star Molly Sandén will be the third interval act of this year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest. She will join the already prestigious list of artists, Sirusho and Vladimir Arzumanyan. 

Today the last individual rehearsals of the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest contestants were held in the Armenian capital of Yerevan - it was the artists from FYR Macedonia, The Netherlands, Belarus, Sweden, Georgia and Belgium to rehearse.

Erik Rapp from Sweden has brought the Nordic spirit to Yerevan with his song Faller. He rehearsed for the second time today in the arena.

The Swedish young star, Erik Rapp had his first rehearsal today in Yerevan for his song Faller. He performed his solid pop song in a great way.  

Eric Rapp is a fast rising young star from Sweden. He's now taking part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Yerevan. But is he the European answer to Justin Bieber?

Today, at the traditional Heads of Delegations meeting, the running order draw for this year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held. So, now we know who will perform at which place!

During the rehearsal weeks all the contestants have their chance to rehearse on stage. But what do the young stars do between rehearsals? Well, we have the answer you've been looking for!

The contestants coming from Ukraine, Sweden and Russia had their second rehearsals today, wrapping up the day here in the Minsk Arena.

Today's rehearsal by Josefine Ridell showed how a new artist is claiming her position in the sky of pop music in Sweden and Europe. Josefine's performance left no questions why she was picked to represent her homeland in Minsk.