MINELRES: Council of Europe announces first winners of the Dosta! Campaign Schools and Civil Society Awards
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Council of Europe announces first winners of the Dosta! Campaign�
�Schools and Civil Society Awards�
Strasbourg, 16.10.2007 - Five schools and three NGOs from the Western
Balkans became winners of the Council of Europe �Schools and Civil
Society Awards� today for their work to promote intercultural dialogue
and better understanding of Roma culture.
The prizes have been awarded as part of a joint Council of Europe and
European Commission awareness raising campaign: �DOSTA! Go Beyond
prejudice, discover the Roma�.
Launched in April 2007, the competition was open to schools and NGOs
from the Dosta! campaign participating countries: Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Republic of Serbia, and "the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".
The winners of the 2007 Schools and Civil Society Awards are:
Civil Society Award
1st Prize (a diploma and 3,000 euros): Albanian Young Women Christian
Association (Albania)
2nd Prize (a diploma and 2,500 euros): Roma Community Centre DROM (�the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia�)
3rd Prize (a diploma and 1,500 euros): NGO ALFA (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Schools Award
The five winning projects in this category received a diploma and 1,500
Euros each.
�Vocational high school�, Maglaj (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
�Technical school for mechanical engineering and transportation�,
Kragujevac (Serbia)
�Elementary School 21 March�, Doboj (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
�School for Elementary Education of Adults�, Sombor (Serbia)
�Strucna skola Filip Kljajic�, Nis (Serbia)
The Dosta! campaign �Schools and Civil Society Awards� recognises
creative and innovative initiatives of schools and NGOs in the field of
intercultural education, mutual understanding, tolerance and
valorisation of Roma culture and history, to break down deep-rooted
stereotypes and prejudices towards Roma.
For more information: www.dosta.org
Council of Europe Press Division
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 41 25 60
Fax:+33 (0)3 88 41 39 11
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www.coe.int/press
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