OHRID ACADEMY OF HUMANISM

EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ARTS AND LETTERS

AND MUNICIPALITY OF OHRID

Have the honor to invite you to the 14th annual World Prize of Humanism Ceremony

Proclamation of academician

GEORGI STARDELOV (MACEDONIA)

As the recipient of World Prize of Humanism 2020

Venue:HOUSE OF URANIA – MACEDONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS, OHRIDDate: 18 January 2020 19:00h.

The primary mission of The Ohrid Academy of Humanism is to contin-ue the vision of St. Clement and St. Naum, founders of the first univer-sity in this part of Europe, which was in the same time the first school of humanism, established in the 9th century.

They were the students of the apostles Ss. Cyril and Methodius. In 1980, the Pope John Paul II proclaimed Ss. Cyril and Methodius for Patrons of Europe.

Ohrid – the city of UNESCO is known as “The Slavic Jerusalem” or “Bal-kan Venice”, celebrating the glory of Lichnidos (the antique name of Ohrid) - The City of light, all around the world.

Winners of WOLRD PRIZE FOR HUMANISM:2007 - Daisaku Ikeda, Japan2008 - Manoel De Oliveira, Portugal2009 - Aleksandar Slozenicyn, Russia2010 - Ravi Shankar, India2011 - Peter Brook, France2012 - Vida Ognjenovic, Serbia2013 - Herta Müller, Germany2014 - Svetlin Roussev, Bulgaria2015 - John Ralston Saul, Canada2016 - Darko Gašparović, Croatia2017 - Jiri Svoboda, Czech Republic2018 - Jean-Patrick Connerade, UK2019 - Romano Prodi, Italy2020 - Georgi Stardelov, Macedonia

Speakers:• Jean-Patrick Connerade, President of European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters

• H.E. Ambassador Jordan Plevnes, President of Interna-tional Jury of Ohrid Academy of Humanism

• Konstantin Georgievski, Mayor of City of Ohrid

Speech of the winner of the World Prize of Humanism 2020

- academician Georgi Stardelov