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November 24, 2005
Prize for reading promotion
The Ermua municipality (Vizcaya), has been award-winner with the First Prize for the best project for the VIII Reading Invigoration Campaign in municipalities with less than 50,000 inhabitants, a prize worth 15,000€ and a lot of books. The money must be given for the improvement of the municipal library. The second prize went to the library Salas de los Infantes (Burgos), and the third one went to Mieres (Asturias) and Navarrete (La Rioja).
In the 2004 official announcement the prizes went to Chinchón (Madrid) and Alovera (Gualajara) and Los Santos de Maimona (Badajoz).
The competition is announced by virtue of a collaboration agreement among the Ministerio de Cultura, the Federación Española de Municipios y Provincias and the Fundación Coca-Cola. 516 projects have been proposed by 503 City Councils. In each campaign 350 projects are prizawinning with lots of children’s and teenager’s books, that are financed by the Ministerio de Cultura with 564,950€. In addition to that, since 2002, the Fundacion Coca-Cola finance three prizes that worth 30,000€ in total, shared between the best project in the year and the second and third prizes.
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