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The Robert Bosch Foundation, together with the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, the Bernard van Leer Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the German Federal Foundation for the Environment is pleased to announce the second call for applications of the International Fellowship Programme for CEE Foundations and NGOs.

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Eastern Partnership News


Zhyvotovskyi Oleg, Chairman of Ukrainian NGO “European Choice”, made a study visit to the Georgian NGO “Union for  people with special needs”.

We suggest you to read an article “Ukraine in Eastern Partnership: New Challenges” by PAUCI Foundation employee Igor Lyubashenko.


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1 June 2010

Promoting Democracy and Tolerance

Following the initiative of the Villa Decius Association Sergio Vieira de Mello Prize was established in the year 2003 with an aim to promote democracy and tolerance, and to pay tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.This year deadline for submitting applications is June 30.
The Laureates are given a statuette by Andrzej Renes, a personal diploma and a cash award. The ceremony of awarding the Prize will be held on 7 October 2010 at Villa Decius, Kraków. The Sergio Vieira de Mello Prize takes place within the Framework of the UNESCO International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures.

The Prize is awarded for special merits in peaceful coexistence and cooperation of communities, religions and cultures.

The prize is awarded annually in two categories:

·   a person

·   a non-governmental organisation

The Prize is awarded by the Panel of Judges composed of the High Representatives of: the President of the Republic of Poland; Ambassador of the Federative Republic of Brazil to Poland; UN High Commissioner for Refugees; Embassies and Consulates supporting the operation of the Villa Decius Association in matters related to human rights; Institute of National Remembrance; Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection; founders of the Prize; ZNAK Foundation; Villa Decius Association. Invitations to work in the Prize’s Panel of Judges are extended by the President of the Villa Decius Association.

The Laureates are given a statuette by Andrzej Renes, a personal diploma and a cash award. The ceremony of awarding the Prize will be held on 7 October 2010 at Villa Decius, Kraków.

The Sergio Vieira de Mello Prize takes place within the Framework of the UNESCO International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures.

Laureates 2004: Tadeusz Mazowiecki, One World Association

Laureates 2005: Rev. Marian Żelazek SVD (1918-2006), Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe

Laureates 2006: Alaxandr Milinkevich, Jewish Culture Festival

Laureates 2007: Maryna Hulia, Magurycz Association

Laureaci 2008: Krystyna Pryjomko-Serafin, Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka, Prof. Szewach Weiss, Michał Żejmis

Laureaci 2009: Fatos Lubonja, Leopold Unger, United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

Sergio Vieira de Mello (1948-2003)

He graduated in philosophy and humanistic studies at Pantheon Sorbonne University of Paris. De Mello participated in numerous humanitarian and peacekeeping actions including Bangladesh, the Sudan, Cyprus, Mozambique and Peru. In 1981 he became Senior Political Advisor of UN peacekeeping forces

in Lebanon. In the period 1983-91, he was the Chief of the Cabinet of the High Commissioner, the Head of Regional Bureau of Asia and Oceania, and  Head of Section of International Relations. In the years 1991-96 he also acted as a special envoy of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Cambodia. In 1996 he was nominated the Assistant of the High Commissioner for Refugees of UN and in 1998 took his post in New York as the General Undersecretary for Humanitarian Actions. He frequently paid short visits with humanitarian missions to Kosovo and East Timor. On September 12, 2002 he was nominated to the post

of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. In May 2003, acting as the Special Envoy of the Secretary General of United Nations, he went for a mission to Iraq.

He was killed in a bomb attack in Baghdad on 19 August 2003.


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25 August 2010

During July 2010 within the “Strengthening the Capacity of NGOs in the EU’s Eastern Partnership” Program Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI launched 19 study visits for NGO representatives from 4 Eastern Partnership countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Georgia. The focus of the visits was related to the four Eastern Partnership’s platforms for the Civil Society Forum. The visits were two-week long with financial support provided in the amount of approximately 800 USD for a visit.

18 August 2010

In the first half of August, PAUCI Foundation together with Main Control and Revision Office of Ukraine organized a series of 8 one-day seminars on introducing internal audit in local governmental bodies in Ukraine.

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