Award Winners:

Democracy and Human Rights category

Paideia Foundation
Project: "Tolerance is being learned - School Education for Social Integration"

Project summary: This project aims development of a complex educational product including training documents and literature; Trainings for teachers; national informational campaign for popularizing education for social integrity and it's introduction in educational process. The project was implemented in 6 pilot regions - Vidin, Pleven, Veliko Tarnovo, Silistra, Shumen and Haskovo. 122 teachers and 556 students took direct participation in project activities. The indirect beneficiates were 857 experts, school managers , members of board of trustees and 6904 users of information which was loaded on the project website.

Development of social sector category

Association in non-profit use "Agribusiness Center" - Polski Trambesh
Project: "Education in the Area of Agriculture - Possibilities for Changes"

Project summary: The general aim of this project was to raise the level of employment among unoccupied youths and orphans on the territory of Polski Trambesh. The specific aim was increasing the qualification of 34 unemployed who had to gain experience on the "farmer" profession and thus to be competitive on the labour market. As a result of the project 34 unemployed had been trained, 237 free informational consultations had been given, a mechanism for motivating, hiring and self-hiring had been created, 35 % of the successful grandaunts found their realization on the labour marketл

Environment and Ecology category

TIME Foundation
Project: "Enviromental Earth Balloon in Bulgaria"

Project summary: This project is based on a new approach - adaptation and using a interactive training appliance - Enviromental Earth Balloon in Bulgaria, which is successfully used in many European countries. The general objective of the project was to popularize the European policy and good practices about the environment among the population in Bulgaria. The specific objectives were to increase the awareness of at least 10 000 school students about the environment and its sustainable development, as well as the sense of preserving the environment and the prosperity of Bulgarian citizens as a part of Europe. For the first time in Bulgaria there was developed an interactive educational program including "the Enviromental Earth Balloon" and training appliances that introduce in attractive way European values, policies and principles in preserving the environment.

Education category

Professional Secondary School of Tourism "Aleko Konstantinov" - Pleven
Project: "New Start - A Model for Social and Labour Integration trough Professional Education to Unoccupied Criminals Released from Prison on the Territory of Pleven Municipality"

Project summary: This project aims increasing the adaptation of unemployed released from prison criminals to the conditions of the labour market trough professional training. The local model of active policy in decreasing the unemployment level among this target group include: Formation of a Center for Professional Training and Social Services, Improvement of cooperation between institutions, establishment of a Public council add developing local initiatives and projects, introducing and popularizing a system of active social and labour mediation, informational and publishing activities in support of the project.

Culture category

Kjustendil District Administarion
Project: "The Region of Kjustendil - a Crossroad of 8,000 Years of History and Culture"

Project summary: The main aims of this project are approbation of the region as a center of cultural tourism, popularizing cultural values of the region as a part of Bulgarian and European cultural heritage, increasing the quality of cultural tourist product that is offered; formation of informational network for promotion of the cultural tourist product.

"MADE IN BULGARIA WITH THE SUPPORT OF EUROPE" Grand Prize

Municipality Assenovgrad
Project: "Formation and Promotion of a new-developed complex culture tourist product "The Rhodopes Mount Athos"

Project summary:
The project "Formation and Promotion of a new-developed complex culture tourist product "The Rhodopes Mount Athos" creates a new tourist product that include 4 different and independent tourist routes. It creates a modern tourist infrastructure with a high level of cultural potential on the territory of the Assenovgrad and Lakki municipalities. Some of project activities include building and restoration of existing monuments, formation of tourist tracks, visual and luminous marking, a new developed tourist informational center, development of marketing strategy and marketing tools for promotion of this product on national and international tourist exhibitions.