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The Prague Society for International Cooperation is an organization dedicated to business
Business
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, politics
Politics
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 and academia
Academia
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 in Central Europe
Central Europe
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. A rigorous agenda is achieved through transparent networking
Business networking
Business networking is a socioeconomic activity by which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities. A business network is a type of social network whose reason for existing is business activity...

, off-the-record dialogues and numerous international functions in order to develop a new generation of responsible, intellectuals who work towards a common goal in a post-communistic society. The most notable function of the Prague Society would be the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award
Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award
The Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award is given annually to people who have dedicated their lives to public service. It was established in 2000 by the Prague Society for International Cooperation and the Global Panel Foundation and is named in honor of the Prague Society's President Marc S....

, given every year to those with the vision to work towards the common good. The Society believes that the innovative process has been hindered based on a reluctance to share information and communicate. The organization was established in June 1999 in order to overcome this obstacle and has retained many international ties around the world. In addition, Prague Society also publishes a newsletter
Newsletter
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 that is distributed to the local population in the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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 and other international publications.

Past events

  • January 25, 2011: Prague Society presents the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award
    Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award
    The Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award is given annually to people who have dedicated their lives to public service. It was established in 2000 by the Prague Society for International Cooperation and the Global Panel Foundation and is named in honor of the Prague Society's President Marc S....

     to the Polish journalist and former dissident Adam Michnik
    Adam Michnik
    Adam Michnik is the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, where he sometimes writes under the pen-names of Andrzej Zagozda or Andrzej Jagodziński. In 1966–1989 he was one of the leading organizers of the illegal, democratic opposition in Poland...

    .
  • June 23, 2010: Radio Free Europe
    Radio Free Europe
    Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a broadcaster funded by the U.S. Congress that provides news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East "where the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed"...

    /Radio Liberty was a round table event with Yuri Schmidt as the honorary guest speaker. Yuri Schmidt was the founder of the Committee of Russian Lawyers in Defense of Human Rights.
  • January 28, 2010: Round table event located at the Romanian Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic. Special guest of honor Juraj Chmiel
    Juraj Chmiel
    Juraj Chmiel is a Czech diplomat. He served as the nation's Minister for European Affairs.- Early life :Chmiel was born in Budapest but studied in Bratislava and later graduated from the Charles' University in Prague...

    , who will replace Štefan Füle
    Štefan Füle
    Štefan Füle is a Czech politician and diplomat, since 2009 European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy in the second Barroso Commission.- Early life :...

     as the Czech European affairs minister.
  • February 14, 2009: Round table and public policy dinner with U.S. General Wesley Clark
    Wesley Clark
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    , former supreme allied commander of Europe. General Clark pushed for NATO membership of Central European nations like Hungary
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

    , Poland
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

    , and the Czech Republic after the fall of the Iron Curtain
    Iron Curtain
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    . During the round table discussion topics such as "energy security, Middle East missile defense and other international issues," were discussed.
  • December 2004: Prague Society presents the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award
    Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award
    The Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award is given annually to people who have dedicated their lives to public service. It was established in 2000 by the Prague Society for International Cooperation and the Global Panel Foundation and is named in honor of the Prague Society's President Marc S....

     to former NATO Secretary Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, who donated the financial reward of 150000kc to David Hodan.

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