Mondialogo School Contest by DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO again calls students for worldwide dialogue STUTTGART, Germany, and PARIS, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The deadline for registrations in the Mondialogo School Contest has been announced. Teachers and educators may register their students aged between 14 and 18 years to take part in the largest worldwide school contest before November 1, 2007. After events in 2003/2004 and 2005/2006, the contest is now being held for the third time. Mondialogo, the global initiative launched by DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO encourages dialogue among young people from different cultural backgrounds who work on a joint project across continents. Their involvement with people from different cultural backgrounds conveys values such as understanding, mutual respect and tolerance. Ambassadors of the initiative include the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho and Swedish writer Henning Mankell. Registration is open at http://www.mondialogo.org/. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020212/DCXLOGO ) After registration, a draw is held to match participating schools with a partner team from another country or continent. The two teams then make contact with each other, agree on a joint project topic and work on this in a process of continuous exchange. The resulting intercultural dialogue leads to the emergence of a joint creative project. This may be a piece of music, a play, a collage, a photographic documentation, a sculpture, an Internet page - there are no limits to the imagination. The Internet Portal in five languages at http://www.mondialogo.org/ provides the main dialogue medium for the contest. In 2008, students and teachers from particularly committed schools will take part in the International Mondialogo Symposium, where representatives of the partner teams will meet each other in person. After several days of workshops and joint activities, the three best partner teams will receive cash awards amounting to EUR 500, 1,000 and 1,500 as part of a festive prize-giving ceremony. Some 25,000 school students from 126 countries took part in the first Mondialogo School Contest in 2003/2004, instantly making it the largest worldwide contest for school students. The second contest in 2005/2006 exceeded even this figure, with more than 35,000 school students from 138 countries taking part. DaimlerChrysler launched the global Mondialogo initiative in 2003 together with UNESCO in order to promote dialogue between people with different cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds. In addition to the Mondialogo School Contest, the initiative also includes a global engineering contest, the Mondialogo Engineering Award, which is presented to project ideas for sustainable technical improvements in developing countries, as well as an the Mondialogo Internet portal with an intercultural theme-based magazine. Among the honours that Mondialogo has received are the "Freiheit und Verantwortung" (Freedom and Responsibility) Award and the "Clarion Award" from the International Visual Communication Association (IVCA) in London. The IVCA jury saw Mondialogo as having rendered an outstanding contribution to the debate on ethical values and sustainable development. Further information is available at http://www.mondialogo.org/ http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020212/DCXLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: DaimlerChrysler AG CONTACT: Sue Williams of UNESCO, +33 (0)1 45 68 17 06, fax, +33 (0)1 45 68 56 59, ; or Han Tjan of DaimlerChrysler Corporate Communications, +1-212-909-9063, fax, +1-212-909-9065, ; or Ursula Mertzig-Stein of DaimlerChrysler AG, +49 (0)711-17-93315, or fax, +49 (0)711-17-94531, Web site: http://www.mondialogo.org/ http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/

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