Since 2004, the European Drug Prevention Prize is awarded every two years to three innovative grass-root projects led by young people for young people.

The main objective of this Prize is to recognise the importance of active youth participation in creating a better and healthier environment for all communities in Europe.

On 13 December 2011, during a high-level conference of the Pompidou Group, two jurors are launching the 5th European Drug Prevention Prize in Ljubljana.

We herewith are calling for projects to apply to the Prize 2012 which will be awarded at the end of the year 2012, during the Pompidou Group’s mid-term conference.

In this edition, we are not only inviting projects from all 47 Council of Europe member states to participate, we have also opened the possibility to apply to projects from Morocco, which has become a member state of the Pompidou Group, as well as from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia, which are members of the group’s Mediterranean network for co-operation on drugs and addictions (MedNET).

The projects must be currently running, managed by young people, targeting children and young people and be innovative in as many ways as possible.

Three youth projects will be rewarded for their work and will each receive a trophy, a diploma and the sum of € 5,000.

The applications should reach the Pompidou Group Secretariat by 30 March 2012. They are to be sent by e-mail to the following address :

dg1.preventionprize2012@coe.int

Lancement du 5ème Prix européen de la prévention des drogues Pour clôturer la conférence de Ljubljana deux jurées ont lancé le Prix européen de la prévention des drogues 2012 le mardi 13 décembre 2011.

Ce lancement s’accompagne d’un appel à candidature qui s’adresse à des projets menés par des jeunes pour des jeunes dans les 47 Etats membres du Conseil de l’Europe, au Maroc, qui est devenu membre du Groupe Pompidou au 1er juillet 2011, et en Algérie, Egypte, Jordanie, Liban et Tunisie, pays membres du Réseau méditerranéen de coopération sur les drogues et les addictions (MedNet).

A la fin de l’année 2012, lors de la conférence à mi-mandat du Groupe Pompidou, trois projets de jeunes seront récompensés par un jury de sept jeunes tant pour leur efficacité que pour leur niveau d’implication active et leur innovation dans la manière de réaliser la prévention des drogues.