Event

It was initiated and financed by the Permanent Mission of Germany to the OSCE with the support of the Greek Chairmanship of the OSCE.

The winners were announced in Vienna on 5 November 2009. They are:

• Oxana Andriuc and Victoria Kriukova (Moldova): Seeing with eyes closed
• Ani Harutyunyan (Armenia): You can always help - just because
• Ignacy Kolaczynski (Poland): Civil society - Where does it begin? Polish examples
• Kaarmanbek Kuluev (Kyrgyzstan): Don Quixote of Bishkek
• Ulan Shamshet (Kazakhstan): Kaznet Freedom Civic Initiative in Kazakhstan

You can view the winning videos on the OSCE YouTube channel.

The winners received a trip to Vienna to attend events marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the OSCE on 5-6 November.

They were selected by an international jury including: Alexandros Dimitrakopoulos, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Greece to the OSCE: Uwe Petry, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OSCE; Martin Nesirky, Spokesperson, OSCE Secretariat; Jens-Hagen Eschenbaecher, Spokesperson, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights; Graham Patterson, Web Editor, OSCE Secretariat; and Tatyana Baeva, Press and Public Information Officer, OSCE Secretariat.