The second edition of the European “Citizenship, Security and Defense” prize is launched!

(BRUXELLES2) The association Citizenship, Defence, Armies, Nation (CIDAN) has just launched the second edition of its European prize for “Citizenship, security and defence”. Objective: to reward actions in favor of the development of European citizenship andEuropean security and defense awareness”. Placed under the patronage of Herman Van Rompuy (the President of the European Council) and Anne Houtman, the director of the European Commission delegation in France, it will make it possible to distinguish actions " particularly noteworthyin five categories. If you have participated in concrete and legible achievements in favor of European awareness; in ceremonies of the duty of memory or remembrance; the implementation of information and education on European security and defense in the teaching of civic life; strengthening the European defense industrial and technological base; or promoting the concept of essential European security interests, you should happily submit your application!

“We are convinced that there are many individual or collective initiatives contributing to the development of the CSDP and more broadly of European citizenship: this European Citizenship Security Defense Prize aims to promote them! » declares on its site the president of CIDAN, Jacques Sonnet.

Last year, the prize went to Hartmut Bühl, editor-in-chief of the magazine "The European Security and Defense Union". Four second prizes equally had also been awarded, respectively, to the Association of Young Portuguese Auditors for Defence, Security and Citizenship (DECIDE), the Weimar Club of Poland, the EURODefense Network and the Research Group "Security and Political Studies defence” from the Complusente University of Madrid.

How to compete?

The competition is open to all European citizens as well as to all companies, associations, communities, foundations, military units and staffs or even to any school in the EU. You will have until October 31 to submit your application on the website www.prizing-eurocitsecdef.eu. It should also be noted that the prize will be awarded on November 27 at the Berlin Security Conference.

CIDAN and its initiatives

Beyond the prize in question, the ambition of the organizing association is to support as much as possible the development of civic behavior within a strong defense policy. Like a movement that is developing more and more outside the European sphere, CIDAN strives to promote a true spirit of European defence, believing that there is complementarity between patriotism and European citizenship.

The CIDAN is also at the origin of two other annual operations organized at the French national level: The Civisme et Défense Trophy, which rewards the best achievement of citizenship and solidarity between civil society and defence; and the National Corporate Citizen Trophy, under the patronage of the Senate, which rewards French companies for their civic actions.

For further information, contact CIDAN at the following address: 9 ter, Rue Edouard Lefebvre, 78000 Versailles or by telephone on +33 1 30 97 53 30