Congratulations 0202 for winning the Intercultural Achievement Award in the media category!
Shira and Shir, 0202, with all award winners
As published on the Austrian Foreign Ministry web site:
Intercultural Achievement Award presented by Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl
On 6 September 2018, the Intercultural Achievement Award (IAA) was presented for the fifth time. The award honours inspiring projects in civil society that foster intercultural dialogue and coexistence. This time, Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl presented the prize for sustainability to a project from Mozambique. Ambassador Jörg Wojahn, the Representation of the European Commission in Vienna, and Secretary General of the OSCE Thomas Greminger used the dialogue-based work of their own institutions as a starting point and awarded prizes to projects from Ukraine and Tunisia.
The Intercultural Achievement Award (IAA) was established in 2014 as a key project in Austrian international cultural policy. It aims to identify and honour innovative, practice-oriented projects in the area of intercultural dialogue at an Austrian and an international level and, in doing so, to make a contribution to current global issues.
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The media project “0202: Points of View from Jerusalem” received the award in the media category. The project’s approach is to enable access to information from East Jerusalem and Haredi Jerusalem, to combat prejudiced reporting and to raise awareness about the perceptions of others.
0202 Director Shira Laurence described it thus:
There were many distinguished guests, including diplomats and civil society professionals from Jordan, Tunisia, the Ukraine, Italy, Cameroon, Nigeria, and more. Everyone who spoke Arabic or Hebrew in the audience came up to us to thank 0202 for the new approach that it brings to the table. Congratulations to us all – we’re on the map!
It was also reported on by the English-language Vindobona, a web site of Vienna International News. 0202 was also featured in this article, on the web site of the German language Die Presse newspaper, one of Austria’s major newspapers. It was published in the print version of the newspaper on September 7, 2018.
Die Presse article September 7, 2018
Click here to see more pictures of the event. They made a video as well:
And here’s the transcript of the translation:
This year’s Intercultural Achievement Award in the category “Media” was awarded to the project “0202 – Points of View from Jerusalem”. 0202 runs Facebook pages and an integrative online platform which offers access to information from East and Haredi Jerusalem, in English, Hebrew and Arabic. The online news platform enables residents from different neighborhoods of Jerusalem to get in contact with one another. Here they can consume news and opinions from their neighbors in their own mother tongue.
Member of the jury: “It is very important that the Media Prize exists because facts are often overlooked, and well-analyzed facts lead us to a better understanding of a situation or of a position in a conflict. Media also naturally play an extremely important role in intercultural dialogue and contribute to understanding one another.”
This project’s approach is to facilitate barrier-free access to information, to oppose prejudiced reporting, and to create consciousness for the perception of the other. Thus, a space for intercultural dialogue is created which enables, as a first step, a virtual encounter.
Here’s the Twitter post of Talya Lador, Israeli Ambassador to Austria:
Happy to host 0202, a social #startup focusing on #Jerusalem and the recipient of tonight’s @MFA_Austria Intercultural Achievement Award 2018. Mazal Tov! pic.twitter.com/PJa3RzmV9H
— Talya Lador (@TalyaLador) September 6, 2018
And her Facebook post:
Many thanks to the jury of the Intercultural Achievement Award! And many thanks to 0202’s ongoing supporters – the Jerusalem Foundation, the Leichtag Foundation, the Rayne Foundation and Natan!
