The 2024 European Prize for ‘Citizenship, Security and Defence’
The European Award for Citizenship, Security and Defence is intended to reward outstanding efforts towards promoting European citizenship and European security and defence awareness.
The prize was first awarded in 2011, under the High Patronage of the President of the European Council. It is organised annually by the association “Civisme Défense Armée Nation” (CiDAN), together with the European Interparliamentary Security and Defence Association, with the support of the Behörden Spiegel.
The awards were presented during the Berlin Security Conference, on 18 November 2024, at the Embassy of Estonia in Berlin.
The jury, which met on Monday, October 07, 2024 at the André Maginot National Federation in Paris, made the following awards:
The 2024 European Prize for ‘Citizenship, Security and Defence’ was awarded to The ‘WW2 Escape Lines Memorial Society’ for:
Their multiple and various activities:
Annual commemorative events, reunions, walking trails [escape line routes], thrice yearly Journals, lectures, research, website [both dissemination of Information and research queries], collaboration
with other organizations, establishment of 3 memorials and a museum display, production of Education Packs for schools, and facilitating UK and EU students and military cadets to participate in commemorative trails and commemorative events in both UK and Europe.
