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Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO 2009 Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe

24 March 2009

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is pleased to announce the Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO 2009 Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe. Sponsored by Dr. Erhard Busek, Coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI), Chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), and President of the European Forum Alpbach, the EUR 2,000 award will be presented to a journalist, editor, media executive or journalism trainer in South Eastern Europe, who has promoted better understanding amongst peoples in the region and worked towards ending minority-related problems, ethnic division, racism, xenophobia, etc.

In 2002, the international SEEMO jury chose Croatian journalist Denis Latin as the recipient of the Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO 2002 Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe, in recognition of his outstanding contribution toward better understanding in South Eastern Europe through his television programme Latinica. In 2003, the award was presented to Kemal Kurspahic, former editor-in-chief of the Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje. The 2005 award was given to Brankica Petkovic, Head of the Center for Media Policy at the Peace Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2006, the Croatian journalist Danko Plevnik, international relations columnist for the Split-based daily Slobodna Dalmacija, was the recipient of the award. The Bulgarian investigative journalist Milena Dimitrova received the award in 2007. In 2008, the SEEMO jury chose Brankica Stankovic, editor for RTV B92 in Belgrade, who introduced new and improved standards of professionalism to Serbian journalism and has addressed in her TV programme, The Insider (Insajder), important issues that have been either concealed or sidelined by the Serbian authorities.

If you know of anyone who would be a worthy recipient of the Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe, please send a letter by regular post or email to SEEMO with basic details about the candidate (along with a professional CV describing why he/she should receive the award), as well as his/her contact information (media organisation, address, phone, fax, email). In case you would like to nominate a media outlet or an organisation/institution, please always provide details of its representative, as the award can be presented to individuals only.

If your nomination is supported by an organisation/media outlet, please send us the name of the contact person supporting your nomination, as well as basic information about the organisation/media outlet. If your nomination is supported by another individual or individuals, please send us their details and contact information. We would also need your own details and contact information (address, phone, fax, email, mobile phone). Please note that members of the jury cannot be nominated for the award.

Please send us any additional material about the nominated person (TV reports on video or DVD, audio reports on cassette or CD, or copies of articles in print media) by regular post to our Vienna office, if possible with a brief English translation. Unfortunately, supporting material cannot be returned, so please always send copies of the original material.

Please send your nomination and supporting documents to:
SEEMO/IPI Busek Award 2009
Spiegelgasse 2/29, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43 1 513 39 40
Fax: +43 1 512 90 15
E-mail: info@seemo.org

The deadline for applications for the Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO 2009 Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe is: 15 May 2009. The award will be presented on 15 October 2009 in Vienna, Austria. SEEMO will announce the winner in an official press release some days before the presentation.

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