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Fifth Service-Learning Regional Award Winners in Central and South-Eastern Europe

Educational institutions from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia submitted their service-learning projects.

Thirty-four regional solidarity service-learning projects were shortlisted this year, and the best ones were selected and awarded to encourage students and young leaders to continue their initiatives. The Award includes several categories, from pre-primary to secondary school levels, alongside social organizations.

The 2024 award winners are:

In the school’s category:

  • First Prize: Stredna odborna škola beauty služieb, Košice, Slovakia
  • Second Prize: SSOU “Dimitria Chupovski” – Veles, North Macedonia
  • Third Prize: Public school Mixed secondary school Teočak, Bosnia and Herzegovina

In the Organization/Non-Formal Groups category:

  • First Prize: Super Volunteer Club “Stars”, Rexhep Akllapi School, Kosovo
  • Second Prize: IMPACT “Step by step”, Romania
  • Third Prize: School dormitory, Slovakia

We at CLAYSS celebrate this new edition of the Award in the region where we have forged strong ties since we started working with professors and institutions interested in solidarity service-learning (SSL) in 2016. You can read about that experience here [in Spanish]: https://www.clayss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ESP_Tejiendo_redes_Informe_gestion_CEE_2016-2022.pdf)

Romanian National Service-Learning Awards 2024

This year, schools and IMPACT community initiative clubs all over the country submitted 41 community-based educational projects.

The award ceremony for the selected projects took place during the “The Romanian Service-Learning MeetUP 2024”. This event was held in the last week of October.

Luz Avruj, current CLAYSS Institutional Relations and Networks Coordinator, presented the first prize in the category “Service-learning projects in non-formal groups at secondary level”: IMPACT AHA, Campia Turzii – Taste of Health4All. The professor responsible mentioned her excitement about the award itself and because she was receiving it from Luz, as some colleagues had told her about the work CLAYSS had done in the region. Luz was also the coordinator of the regional service-learning programme until 2022 (when the programme formally concluded), but their joint work continues. Dana Bates, founder of the New Horizons Foundation (https://www.noi-orizonturi.ro/), which co-organizes the award with SELEGRO (https://www.facebook.com/asociatiaselegro/), also spoke at the end.

Learn about the winners here: https://www.facebook.com/FundatiaNoiOrizonturi/videos/2415582381979778