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Further information is provided concerning two outstanding activities, the Teacher Action Prize and the
cultural activities in Spain programme.
THE TEACHER ACTION PRIZE
Called by the Fundación de Ayuda contra la Drogadicción (Foundation of Aid against Drug Addiction), the
Spanish UNESCO Committee and BBVA, the Premio a la Acción Magistral (Teacher Action Prize) aims to
publicise educational projects undertaken throughout the 2007/2008 school year in Preschool, Primary or
Special Education that specifically work on forging pro-social values among their pupils such as solidarity,
tolerance, gender equality, respect, etc., which contribute to pre-empting behaviours engendering social risk,
such as drug abuse, classroom violence or racism. Moreover, particular attention is paid to those initiatives
fostering interaction between schools and families.
The 2008 edition of the Teacher Action Prize attracted the participation of teachers and educational
centres which had carried out a project or educational experience over the 2007/2008 academic year in
Preschool and/or Primary Education, in the field of development of pupil’s personalities. The award consists
of a cash prize of €9,000 for the teacher or teachers writing up the project and €9,000 for the educational
centre where the project is undertaken. BBVA provides said sums.
The Teacher Action Prize, which reached its fourth edition in 2008, has received active backing from the
Spanish Ministry of Education, the Education Departments in all the autonomous communities and the two
Spanish autonomous cities, together with the most representative organisations in the educational
community (teacher’s trade unions, parent’s associations, etc.) which collaborate in publicising the initiative
and the processes for assessing the candidate projects.
Assessment Committees in the different autonomous communities are responsible for assessing the
projects received and selecting the finalists that go on to the national phase. The latter are analysed by the
National Assessment Committee, which is made up of representatives from teacher’s trade unions and
associations, from the confederations of parent’s associations, from the organising institutions and from the
High Inspectorate of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. Its choice of projects is passed on to
the Jury, which after a period of debate and reflection, issues its verdict. The prizes were awarded on 9th
October 2008 by H.M. the Queen of Spain, Honorary Chair of the Fundación de Ayuda contra la
Drogadicción, in the royal Zarzuela Palace.
Of the 216 candidatures submitted, 129 centres eventually competed for the Teacher Action Prize; 57
projects were incomplete and 30 were rejected because they did not comply with the rules.
The Panel of Judges for the Prize was made up of the following members:
Eva Almunia, Spanish Secretary of State for Education.
Carmen Maestro, Chair of the State School Council.
José Antonio Marina, philosopher and senior teacher.
Julio Iglesias de Ussel, former Secretary General of Education.
Álvaro Marchesi, Secretary General of the OIS
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Antonio Nicolau, UNESCO Representative
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Antonio Ballabriga, BBVA Corporate Social Responsibility Manager
Ignacio Calderón, Director General of the Fundación de Ayuda contra la Drogadicción.
THE WINNING PROJECT
INFORMATION
Prevention of violence in all spheres and of failure at school, improvement of community living and
achieving a truly effective integration of their Preschool and Primary level pupils are the basic aims of the
project entitled, Apuesta por la transformación (Commitment to transformation), submitted by the CEIP
Andalucía state school, winner of the 2008 Teacher Action Prize.
To achieve these goals, at the beginning of the academic year the school proposed the organisation of a
SUPPLEMENTARY
variety of activities, which have now become part of everyday life in the school: radio workshops (which Corporate Responsibility Report 2008
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