Empress Theophano Prize 2024
Theophano Foundation, of which Ktima Gerovassiliou is a founding member, awarded the Special Olympics in the name of Dr. Timothy Shriver, Chairman of Special Olympics, on Wednesday, 23 October 2024 in Thessaloniki, at the Rotunda monument, a symbol of multiculturalism, and will be attended by prominent figures from Europe and beyond, an event realised with the active participation Special Olympics athletes.
Dr. Timothy Shriver, Chairman of Special Olympics, said the following about the Empress Theophano Prize: “On behalf of the four million Special Olympics athletes we serve every day around the world, it is truly one of my greatest honours to accept the Empress Theophano Prize. Disability rights are human rights. Everyone has a right to participate in society. Everyone has gifts to celebrate.”
This year´s Theophano Foundation prize is the fifth such award. Previous winners included the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme, the inventors of the life-saving COVID vaccine, Dr Uğur Şahin and Dr Özlem Türeci, the globally respected pianist and maestro Daniel Barenboim for his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and the United Nations, represented by António Gutteres, UN Secretary-General, for its contribution to world peace and international cooperation.
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