Now accepting applications for the 2011 award!

The Stelios Philanthropic Foundation announces the launching of the 2011 “Stelios Award for Business Cooperation in Cyprus”. The award, which is in its 3rd year running, promotes island-wide, bi-communal business cooperation between Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot entrepreneurs by giving promising ventures the funding boost they need to grow. Up to five awards of 50,000EU each are presented to those teams which best demonstrate bi-cultural teamwork and mutual trust. The awards will be presented by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou himself in a ceremony which will take place in mid-November in Cyprus. All interested parties must submit their applications by 31/10/2011

Previous winners

The Highgate School – a school offering integrated trilingual education from pre-K to grade 12 in Nicosia; represented by educators Maria Theochari and Zubeyir Agaoglu.

Papazor Enterprises Ltd. – an internet-based car and villa rental service represented by Izzet Zorlu and Stathis Papaefstathiou.

C&A Agricultural Products – represented by Unsal Ozbilenler and Christakis Varnava, C&A packs, distributes and exports agricultural products grown island-wide.

The Three Ladies Team – represented by Fiona Mullen, Praxoula A. Kyriacou and Özlem Oguz, is an economic research and consulting company advising clients on intra-island trade.
OSP Continental Trading Ltd. – manufactures PVC windows and doors for sale island-wide and is represented by Andreas Petrides, Özker Ìldeniz and Soner Yetkili.

The Stelios awards for business cooperation in Cyprus promote island-wide, bi-communal business cooperation between entrepreneurs by giving promising ventures the funding boost they need to grow. The award is funded personally by Stelios through the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation, which is dedicated to the three E’s – Education, Entrepreneurship and the Environment.

The five winners were selected after almost 50 initial entries were whittled down to a shortlist of nine. The winners come from a range of disciplines, but all demonstrate island-wide entrepreneurial activity and consist of at least one Greek-Cypriot and one Turkish-Cypriot partner.