Nigeria and its partner team from Azerbaijan had won the largest worldwide school contest dubbed: “The Mondialogo School Contest”. (24- SEP-2004)
Accra, Sept. 20,GNA — Germany and its partner team from Kuwait took the second place, while the third prize, was won by Fiji and its partner team from the Czech Republic.
A press release issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), in Accra, said the Contest was aimed at promoting understanding, respect and tolerance between civilizations and to encourage young people of different cultural backgrounds to communicate with each other.
UNESCO and Daimler Chysler, an automobile manufacturer, launched the Contest in October last year. An international jury selected the winners from among 50 finalists from 36 countries.
Nigeria and Azerbaijan developed a joint intercultural game, while Germany and Kuwait exchanged information about their cultural environments and adapted William Shakespeare´s play, “The Tempest”.
” The cooperation between and Fiji the Czech Republic is wonderful of how two peoples very distant from another can come closer together”, the statement said.
“One feature the jury found particularly noteworthy was the survey conducted by the students from the Czech Republic in which the young people compared lifestyles in the two countries and published them on their website. In addition, the Fijian team designed a colorful album to describe traditional elements of their culture.”
The jury also awarded a special prize to the partner team from Ghana and Mexico for writing a song about AIDS.
More than 24,000 students from 1,446 teams from 126 countries took part in the Contest.
