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The European Drug Prevention Prize is awarded every two years to active youth drug prevention projects that are currently functioning. Its objective is to recognize the importance of active youth participation in creating a better and healthier environment for all communities in Europe. The Prize will be awarded to three youth projects that will each receive a monetary benefit of € 5,000.
Being innovative is a feature of youth cultures in all countries, therefore projects including innovative approaches such as video, Internet, mobile phone and text messaging, as well as targeting young people under 18 are particularly encouraged to present themselves. In this respect the Prize is also a way to present new approaches to an interested audience. To ensure this, a descriptive inventory of shortlisted projects will be published and disseminated by the Pompidou Group.
To enter your project, please complete the application form and send it to the Pompidou Group Secretariat. The closing date for entries for the European Drug Prevention Prize 2012 is 30 March 2012. No entries will be accepted after this date.
A project that enters the competition for the Prize should make certain that it meets the following eligibility criteria:
1. The project must be currently running or must have recently finished in one (or more) of 1the Council of Europe member states , in Morocco which has recently become a member state of the Pompidou Group or other countries from the southern rim of the
Mediterranean which are members of the Pompidou Group’s Mediterranean network for co-operation on drugs and addictions (MedNET) (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia). Projects whose work is mainly outside this geographical area are ineligible.
2. The project must be run by more than one person and have some formal structure, for example a management committee or steering group (Documentary evidence of this will be required). Projects can be government sponsored, run by NGOs (non-
governmental organisations), in the private sector, or organised by local communities.
Projects do not have to be funded to be eligible – they can be entirely voluntary.
3. The work of eligible projects must be wholly or mainly in the area of drug prevention.
Projects that are not concerned with drug prevention will not be eligible. We accept a broad definition of drug prevention, and we encourage you to apply if your project defines itself as a drug prevention project. Projects that address risk or protective factors
associated with drug use are extremely significant, even if they are not directly concentrating on drug issues. However, projects that are exclusively working with people who already have developed problems with their drug use (‘indicated prevention’) are unlikely to be successful.
4. Young people, under the age of 25 years, must be involved in the work of the project.
There is no lower age limit.
Sursa: http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/pompidou/initiatives/preventionprize/default_EN.asp
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