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Project of the Year 2008 awards

Fri, Apr 03 2009 10:00 CET

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Project of the Year 2008 awards

Photo: Rene Beekman

Project of the Year 2008 awards

Tulip Foundation director Maria Petkova, left, and Ronald van der Giessen, director Oranje Fonds, The Netherlands.

Photo: Rene Beekman

Project of the Year 2008 awards

Ivo Prokopiev, chairperson of the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria, left, and Tulip Foundation director Maria Petkova



Photo: Rene Beekman

Project of the Year 2008 awards

Dutch ambassador to Bulgaria
Willem van Ee


Photo: Rene Beekman

The Tulip Foundation bestowed three social projects with the Project of the Year award 2008. The awards were presented at an official ceremony on March 30 2009.
The winners were the project Together by the Solidarity  Association from Shumen, the Open Doors Centre in Pleven and the first chess tournament for the mentally disabled, held in Pazardjik.

Winners were selected by a jury that included Ivo Prokopiev, chairperson of the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria; film director Angela Peeva; British actor Ben Cross; Petya Tetevenska, board member of Bulgarian National Television; Dutch ambassador to Bulgaria Willem van Ee; Levon Hampartzoumian, chairperson of the board and chief executive of Unicredit Bulbank; director of Fairplay International Ani Zaharieva, Bernard Moscheni, chief executive of BTC and Nina Mircheva, director for corporate communication at MTel.

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