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Global SchoolNet Supports Mondialogo!
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Mondialogo School Contest
initiated by DaimlerChrysler and
UNESCO invites students to
engage in intercultural dialogue
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Hurry!
Deadline is 24 October 2005!
25,000 students from 126
countries participated in 2004
Stuttgart/Paris – Registration
for the Mondialogo School
Contest will run until 24
October 2005. Students between
the ages of 14 and 18 are
eligible to participate in the
global initiative launched by
DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO,
which aims to encourage dialogue
among young people from
different cultures. By asking
students to work together on a
joint project, organizers
encourage students from
different cultures to become
more inquisitive and to gain
appreciation for values such as
understanding, respect and
tolerance. Ambassadors for the
initiative include Brazilian
writer Paulo Coelho and Swedish
writer Henning Mankell.
Registration is possible online
at
www.mondialogo.org.
After registering for the
Mondialogo School Contest, each
participating school is matched
with a partner team from another
country. Teams agree on a joint
project and then work together
to create a shared result
reflecting intercultural
dialogue and cooperation.
Creative project results from
the first contest include:
music, plays, collages, photo
documentaries, sculptures and
web pages – students
demonstrated unlimited degrees
of imagination. A Mondialogo
Internet Portal in five
languages (www.mondialogo.org)
provides the main dialogue
medium for the contest.
Students and teachers from
particularly committed schools
will be invited to Mexico in
November 2006 for the
international Mondialogo
Symposium, where partner teams
will meet for the first time.
Workshops and joint activities
will be followed by a festive
award ceremony to recognize
students’ achievements and to
award prizes to the three most
outstanding partner teams.
Some 25,000 students from 126
countries took part in the first
Mondialogo School Contest in
2003/2004, making it the largest
worldwide contest for secondary
school students. DaimlerChrysler
and UNESCO, (the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization) launched
the Mondialogo initiative in
2003 to foster understanding,
respect and tolerance among
cultures and to encourage young
people from different cultural
backgrounds to enter into
dialogue.
In addition to the Mondialogo
School Contest, the initiative
includes an international
engineering award encouraging
sustainable development and
poverty reduction in developing
countries - the Mondialogo
Engineering Award. Mondialogo’s
award-winning five-language
Mondialogo Internet portal also
hosts the Mondialogo Magazine
which regularly runs new
features on intercultural
themes.
At the beginning of September
2005, the International Visual
Communication Association (IVCA)
in London honoured the
initiative with its “Clarion
Award 2005”. The jury praised
Mondialogo’s “outstanding
contribution to the debate on
ethical values and sustainable
development”.
The authors are solely
responsible for the choice and
the presentation of the content
of this newsletter/website, and
for the opinions expressed
therein, which are not
necessarily those of UNESCO or
DaimlerChrysler and do not
commit the initiators of
Mondialogo.
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