The Maltese National Student Travel Foundation (NSTF) has been selected by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) as one of three EU-wide award winners in this year's Civil Society Awards competition.
NSTF will be presented with an award of €5,000, tomorrow, during the plenary session of the EESC in Brussels.
This year's winners were selected by a panel of judges headed by the president of the EESC, Dimitris Dimitriadis, and including Cittadinanzattiva - Active Citizenship Network of Italy and the Business Centre Club of Poland. The panel concluded that the all candidates had significantly contributed to the promotion of European integration and identity. The EESC prize for organised civil society aims at rewarding and promoting intellectual work or practical action on a theme which is chosen annually.
The NSTF is a Maltese non-profit NGO established in 1977. Its main aim is the direction and development of educational, cultural and social travel and exchange for students, scholars and youth at all educational levels in the nation. It also promotes the expansion and improvement of services and promotion of a better understanding on an international level. Among the activities of the NSTF are the organisation of and participation in youth exchanges, as part of the EU Youth Programme. For the past 18 years it has been organising the NSTF Mini European Assembly.