"Hungary's Ferenc Rákóczi II Foundation won the first ever Charlemagne Youth Prize for its "Students Without Boundaries" project. It was best of three prizes awarded on 29 April 2008 to projects which were judged to have fostered a shared sense of European identity and cultural exchange. Second and third prizes went to the projects in the UK and Greece respectively. European Parliament's President Hans-Gert Pöttering and André Leysen, Chair of the Charlemagne Prize Foundation, presented the prizes.

Hans Gert Pöttering, president of the European Parliament and Katerina Batzeli welcome the winners of the Charlemagne Youth Prize  (L-R): Lorenzo Marsili (UK - 2nd winner); Emőke Korzenszky (SWB - Hungary); Katerina Batzeli, chairwoman of the Culture and Education Committee; Hans Gert Pöttering - president of the European Parliament; Zoltán Csadi (SWB - Slovakia); Paraskevi Christodoulopoulou (Greece, 3rd winner); Ilona Mikóczy (SWB - Slovakia); Ágota Demeter (SWB- Romania)

L-R: Ágota Demeter, Pál Schmitt, Member of the European Parliament,  European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education and the representatives of the SWB, Ilona Mikóczy, Zoltán Csadi

L-R: Zoltán Csadi, Ilona Mikóczy, Kinga Gál, Member of the European Parliament, Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, vice chairwoman of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Ágota Demeter.

L-R: Zoltán Csadi, Ilona Mikóczy, László Surján, Member of the European Parliament, Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats; József Szájer Vice Chairman of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats; Ágota Demeter, Emőke Korzenszky

About 400 projects entered the competition which is organised by the Parliament and the Charlemagne Foundation. The winners receive €5,000, €3,000 and €2,000, respectively.

(source: European Parliament News)