Civil Society Award for Social Inclusion to Future Worlds Center

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 implemented by the organization.
2. Notable projects which promote inclusion and dialogue, such as:
   • Act Beyond Borders
   • Teach MDGs
   • Multicultural Cyprus
   • Moblang
   • UCYVROK
   • Civil Society Dialogue
3. The Philosophy, Values, Good Organization, focus on peace, special focus on vulnerable groups and the role of Cyprus as peripheral center.

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

• Announcement of the award on FWC Blog