Cei care vor premia pe Rege si premiul lor

Joi 10 mai, la Palatul Elisabeta, la ora 17, va avea loc ceremonia inmanarii « Ellenbogen Citizen Award » Majestatii Sale Regelui Mihai I pentru anul 2006. Va prezint mai jos pe cei care atribuie premiul, Prague Society for International Co-operation si Global Panel, precum si fundatia care a creat aceasta distinctie.

Presedinte Onorific: F. W. de Klerk, Laureat al Premiului Nobel si om politic, Africa de Sud

« Mergeti in continuare pe acest drum si veti face diferenta. Aceasta este provocarea noastra, a tuturor: sa traim intr-o anume maniera, sa actionam intr-o anume maniera, astfel incat sa cream o lume mai buna.”

Societatea de la Praga a fost fondata in iunie 1999 de un grup de personalitati din Republica Ceha, Canada, Germania, Noua Zeelanda, Marea Britanie si Statele Unite. Ideea acestei Societati s-a dezvoltat pe masura ce fondatorii ei au inteles ca  experienta pe care o castigasera, atat individual, cat si colectiv, timp de aproape un sfert de secol, ar trebui extinsa la o scara mai larga.

Societatea abordeaza o perspectiva generoasa prin interactiuni care conduc la un angajament reinnoit fata de responsabilitatea civica. Telurile noastre sunt:

• sa promovam o abordare globala asupra afacerilor, politicii si mediului academic.
• sa sustinem factorii de decizie in a lua in calcul implicatiile actiunilor lor.
• sa dezvoltam o noua generatie de leaderi si vizionari responsabili si informati.
• sa publicam comentarii unice ale membrilor si invitatilor nostri.

Societatea de la Praga sponsorizeaza Premiul anual Hanno R. Ellenbogen pentru Citizenship acordat, in fiecare an, unei persoane sau organizatii care intruchipeaza cel mai bine spiritul intelegerii si al serviciului public la nivel international. Castigatorii celor cinci editii anterioare sunt: Maestrul Vladimir Ashkenazy si Corpul de Dirijori al Filarmonicii Cehe; Doamna Secretar de Stat Madeleine Albright; Presedintele Václav Havel; Lordul Robertson of Port Ellen, Secretar General al NATO si regizorul si producatorul Miloš Forman. Laureatii doneaza componenta financiara a premiilor lor pentru a sprijini cariera unui tanar, ales de ei.

Societatea de la Praga creeaza si mentine o retea internationala de leaderi si isi aduce contributia la imbuntatirea unor politici publice importante.

Evenimentele noastre ofera factorilor de decizie oportunitatea de a influenta si actiona conform gandirii si credintelor fiecaruia.

Cand leaderii doresc informatii de incredere, ei se adreseaza Societatii de la Praga.

Fondata in 1989, Fundatia Global Panel a devenit un forum exclusiv pentru factorii de decizie din mediul economic, politic si social, la nivel international.

Caracteristica cea mai puternica a Fundatiei Global Panel este considerata a fi reteaua sa de prieteni si colaboratori. In cadrul Global Panel, personalitati de renume din domeniul politicilor publice, afacerilor si stiintei sunt implicate

intr-un schimb activ de idei si puncte de vedere si in crearea de solutii.

Printre conferentiarii evenimentelor Global Panel se numara:

Madeleine Albright; George Bush; Hans van den Broek; Jimmy Carter; Viktor Chernomyrdin; Philip Condit; Emil Constantinescu; Gareth Evans; Michail Gorbachev; Arpad Göncz; Valéry Giscard d´Estaing; Vaclav Havel; Cor Herkströter; King Hussein bin Talal; Henry Kissinger; F. W. de Klerk; Helmut Kohl; Wim Kok; Leonid Kuchma; Ruud Lubbers; Mahathir bin Mohamad; Helmut Maucher; Carlos Menem; H.M. King Michael I; Alois Mock; Yasuhiro Nakasone; Benjamin Netanyahu; Kenichi Ohmae; Turgut Özal; Shimon Peres; Colin Powell; Lord Robertson of Port Ellen; Helmut Schmidt; Louis Schweitzer; Vladimir Spidla; Morris Tabaksblat; Margaret Thatcher; Zhu Rongji.

Beneficiind de aceasta retea, Global Panel creeaza forumuri si strategii la cel mai inalt nivel al Politicilor Publice, contribuind activ la cooperarea internationala, dezvoltarea investitiilor si a relatiilor bilaterale.

Global Panel reprezinta un angajament catre societate, iar la nivel personal.

Global Panel inseamna angajamentul societatii fata de individ.

The Prague Society for International Cooperation was founded nearly ten years ago with statesman and Nobel laureate F.W. de Klerk as Honorary Chairman.  The Society is Prague’s leading public policy organisation, involved in issues and debates of current importance.

The Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award is presented annually to a person in the public sphere who has contributed to international understanding. The Award amounts to 150,000 Czech crowns (over 7,000 US dollars). The recipient presents the award to a young person of their choice, whom the recipient believes will in turn contribute to a better society.

It is named after Mrs. Hanno R. Ellenbogen who died of cancer in 1997. She provided a remarkable example of a life lived in commitment to ideals of public service and the common good which cross national boundaries. Her experience as a Trummerkind, her professional experience in post-war Germany, and her marriage to a US official led her to the building of bridges and establishing of international links.

The years spent with a family in the heart of a divided Germany and a divided Europe instilled a firm belief in the need to take positive action to break down the barriers which divide people from people in their shared destiny.

Recipients:

First Award:
Vladimir Ashkenazy and the conducting corps of the Czech Philharmonic (Vladimír Válek, Sir Charles Mackerras, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi)
(Lukáš Vondráček, young virtuoso pianist from Opava)

Second Award:
Secretary Madeleine Albright
(Petra Procházková, a Czech journalist working in the crisis areas of the Caucasus and Afghanistan)

Third Award:
President Václav Havel
(Andrej Dynko, Editor-in-Chief of Nasa Niva, Belarus’s only independent political newspaper)

Fourth Award:
NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
(David Hodan, a gifted teenager from Pilsen confined to a wheelchair)

Fifth Award:
Miloš Forman, film maker (tba)

Sixth Award:
His Majesty King Michael I of the Romanians (tba)

“In 1999 I accepted the invitation to become Honorary Chairman of the Prague Society because it promoted goals similar to those for which I myself was working. I gladly endorse both the concept of the HRE Citizenship Award and the choice of recipients.
F.W. de Klerk, October 2002