Civil Society Award for Social Inclusion to Future Worlds Center

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Future Worlds Center received the award for the best CSO in the category Social Inclusion during the first annual Civil Society Awards Ceremony held at Chateau Status Restaurant Saturday 7 June 2008.


Future Worlds Center received the award in recognition of its long history of contributions in activities related to social inclusion both on local and international levels. The Organization is promoting inclusion in a number of different way, including:

  1. Implementation of structured democratic dialogues that include all stakeholders in addressing a social issue[1] implemented by the organization.
  2. Notable projects which promote inclusion and dialogue, such as:
  3. The Philosophy,[2] Values,[3] Good Organization,[4] focus on peace,[5] special focus on vulnerable groups[6] and the role of Cyprus as peripheral center. [7]


three operating units: Development Education, Humanitarian Affairs and New Media in Learning Laboratory. Current projects focus on promoting cultural diversity and intercultural understanding among young citizens. Future Worlds Center manages projects and facilitates workshops with teachers, parents and students throughout Europe to develop a joint vision on how to build integrative, multi-communal societies, and to design and implement action plans towards these. Through one of its Development Education project, Future Worlds Center collaborates with schools and the Ministry of Education to add a global dimension to the current lesson plans and to provide access to relevant material for teachers across Europe. Furthermore, projects focus on the challenges that youth with fewer opportunities face in the context of active citizenship and youth participation on European level and on using music as a tool to promote diversity and intercultural communication. It mobilizes young volunteers to actively promote the Millennium Development Goals within the Cypriot society.

Future Worlds Center is a member of the Insafe and the Inhope Network (www.saferinternet.org, www.inhope.org) and of the Cypriot National Network of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures. Together with four NGOs in Cyprus Future Worlds Center has taken the initiative of establishing an island-wide NGDO-platform in Cyprus, linked to the European NGO-conferedation CONCORD (www.cyprusngdos.org). Future Worlds Center is also a founding member of the ‘Multicultural Cyprus for Children and Youth’ Network (www.multiculturalcyprus.org).

The winners of the 2008 Civil Society Awards Ceremony were:

Social Inclusion Future Worlds Center and Turkish Cypriot Special Education Foundation (ÖZEV)

Education and Culture HASDER Folk Arts Association and KENTHEA Information and Rehabilitation Centre for Drug addiction

Environment Biologist Association ‘Bio Der’ and Cyprus Marine Environment Protection Association-CYMEPA

Gender Association for the Prevention and Handling of Violence in Family and Mediterranean Sports Association

Health The Cyprus Association for Cancer Patients and Friends and Help Those With Cancer Association

Youth Agros Youth Club and AKOVA Women’s Association

Island-Wide Cooperation Cyprus Dyslexia Association and Union of Chambers of Cyprus Turkish Engineers and Architects

Island-Wide Cooperation Association for Historical Dialogue and Research and Peace Players International Cyprus



External Links

  • Logo.
    Official letter about the award

Future Worlds Center ranked second place in the final election round for the 2011 Euro-Med Award for the Dialogue between Cultures and was awarded an Honourable Mention for the highly-esteemed work on intercultural dialogue for the promotion of freedom and citizenship[8]. The Euro-Med Award for the Dialogue between Cultures is a very prestigious award given by the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures[9] an organization operating in 43 countries having over a 3000 organizational members, founded to honor Anna Lindh[10] for her pioneer work.

The nomination was done by Heiner Benking from PNW [11], a member of the German Anna-Lindh-Network [12], and co-foundner of the Anna-Lindh-Salon. [13] He based his proposal on the following:

  1. The high number of structured democratic dialogues[14] implemented by the organization.
  2. Notable projects which promote dialogue, such as Act Beyond Borders, Teach MDGs, Multicultural Cyprus, Moblang, UCYVROK, Civil Society Dialogue, etc.
  3. The world-wide initiatives and books written by members of its Board Aleco Christakis,[15] [16] Yiannis Laouris,[17] Harry Anastasiou,[18] Kerstin Wittig and Romina Laouri.
  4. The Philosophy,[19] Values,[20] Good Organization,[21] focus on peace,[22] special focus on vulnerable groups[23] and the role of Cyprus as peripheral center. [24]


External Links


References

  1. ↑ Chronological List of SDDPs by Future Worlds Center and Associates
  2. ↑ Future Worlds Center Philosophy
  3. ↑ Future Worlds Center Constitutional and Value Policies
  4. ↑ Future Worlds Center Policies and Procedures
  5. ↑ Future Worlds Center Special Focus in Promoting Peace
  6. ↑ Future Worlds Center Special Focus on Vulnerable Groups
  7. ↑ Future Worlds Center Special Focus in Promoting Cyprus as Peripheral Center
  8. ↑ Award announcement on Anna Lind's page
  9. ↑ Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures
  10. ↑ Anna Lindh
  11. ↑ Positive Nett-Works e.V. Page
  12. ↑ Goethe-Institut represents the German Anna Lindh Network
  13. ↑ Anna-Lindh-Salon
  14. ↑ Chronological List of SDDPs by Future Worlds Center and Associates
  15. ↑ Aleco Christakis and Kenneth C. Bausch.(2006). Co-laboratories of democracy: how people harness their collective wisdom to create the future. Boston, MA: Information Age Publishing.
  16. ↑ Aleco Christakis and Tom R. Flanangan (2009). The Talking Point:Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning. Boston, MA: Information Age Publishing.
  17. ↑ Yiannis Laouris (2011). Masks of Demons: A journey into the Discovering and Breaking of Stereotypes in a Society in Conflict. CreateSpace, USA
  18. ↑ Harry Anastasiou (2008). The Broken Olive Branch . Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and the Quest for Peace in Cyprus. Syracuse University Press, NY
  19. ↑ Future Worlds Center Philosophy
  20. ↑ Future Worlds Center Constitutional and Value Policies
  21. ↑ Future Worlds Center Policies and Procedures
  22. ↑ Future Worlds Center Special Focus in Promoting Peace
  23. ↑ Future Worlds Center Special Focus on Vulnerable Groups
  24. ↑ Future Worlds Center Special Focus in Promoting Cyprus as Peripheral Center


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