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THE
CHRONOS PRIZE - RAISING AWARENESS THROUGHOUT SOCIETY The Chronos Prize helps develop and promote closer relationships among a rich variety of social groups. Local and regional institutions (at the city, department and regional level) are informed of the arrangements for the Chronos Prize as soon as the list of Chronos sites has been completed. National and international institutions The nature of the Chronos Prize and the beliefs underlying it have automatically led to links with national institutions, a positive approach that has systematically resulted in immediate support. The basic approach has won the support of six Ministries as well as of the UN and UNESCO. Research  Chronos
was conceived by a group of researchers from the National Gerontology
Foundation. Specialists in children's literature were brought in to
help develop the arrangements for the Chronos Prize and ensure that
it provided an outstanding area for study. Since then, students have
integrated Chronos into their research work. Teachers have also shown their willingness to become involved with Chronos. All of these groups took part in the 2nd Chronos Symposium in October 1999 at UNESCO in Paris, on the theme of "Growing Up and Growing Older - the Challenge for the 3rd Millennium", together with the Assistant Director of Social Action for UNESCO, the Director of Communications for the UN and numerous well-known speakers, including Lady Sally Greengross, Chair of ILC-UK and Age Concern, and Professor Françoise Forette, Chair of ILC-France. This symposium reflected the high-quality work carried out by the Chronos Prize in the fields of culture, research, education, teaching and gerontology. The authors The creation of the Chronos Authors Club, "The Chronos Club", will bring together authors of children's literature who have written on the theme "Growing up means growing older - Growing older means growing up" and been Chronos Prize selections. This Club will serve both to facilitate relations among the jury members and to represent Chronos to the press and the media. The Honorary Committee A prestigious Honorary Committee helps in developing the Chronos Prize : † Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Prize for Physics 1991, Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize for Medicine 1986, Ginette Raimbault, Director of Research at INSERM, † Jean Bernard, member of the Académie Française, Jacqueline de Romilly, member of the Académie Française, Noëlle Châtelet, writer. |
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CHRONOS PRIZE AND NATIONAL CULTURAL EVENTS
The Chronos Prize has taken its place among the main events devoted to children's literature : - The Festival of Reading (Lire en Fête) of the Ministry of Culture, - The Montreuil Youth Book Fair (Salon du Livre de Jeunesse), - The Paris Book Fair and several book fairs in the provinces. The Chronos Prize seeks to develop partnerships with the press and audiovisual media, TV networks, radio stations and magazines for children on the theme of literature and "Growing up means growing older - Growing older means growing up". |
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