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Press Release
28th July 2010
CISV and Studieren Ohne Grenzen are the winners of
the 1GOAL O2 Crew charity competition
MUNICH/Germany. Over four thousand O2 Crew members took part in the
Telefónica O2 Germany charity competition for the 1GOAL initiative. The two
organisations CISV Germany e.V. and Studieren Ohne Grenzen e.V. will each
receive a donation of €10,000.
Under the motto 'Education for All', O2 issued a challenge in June via the O2 Crew
web platform for its members to champion the theme of education and establish a
crew of their own with friends and acquaintances. The two biggest crews are to
receive €10,000 each from O2 for a charitable education project of their choice. The
organisations CISV Germany e.V. and Studieren Ohne Grenzen came out top with
645 and 594 supporters respectively, and can be delighted about the donation.
CISV Germany e.V. organises exchange programmes for children and young people
with the aim of promoting intercultural communication and peace education. "What is
special about the projects is that values such as tolerance and individual
responsibility are conveyed in a fun manner through workshops and camps", explains
Frank Steffen, captain of the winning crew. CISV wants to use the €10,000 for the
'International Meeting' in Berlin. There, under the patronage of Berlin's Mayor Klaus
Wowereit, there will be a week of education and training sessions in August under
the heading of Diversity and Cultural Awareness.
Studieren Ohne Grenzen e.V. was founded by students who want to support their
fellow students from regions affected by war and crisis. With its grants programme in
Chechnya, the association enables young people to come to Germany to study a
subject of their choice. "With our prize from O2 we can finance a one-year grant for a
talented person and offer the necessary prospects for the future", explains Eva
Hanau of Studieren Ohne Grenzen. "The basic idea behind our project work
corresponds strongly with the objectives of 1GOAL. We would like to thank O2 for
supporting this initiative!"
Telefónica O2 Germany GmbH & Co. OHG belongs to Telefónica Europe and is part of the Spanish
telecommunication group Telefónica S.A. The Company offers its German private and business
customers postpaid and prepaid mobile telecom products as well as innovative mobile data services
based on the GPRS and UMTS technologies. In addition, the integrated communications provider also
offers DSL fixed network telephony and high-speed internet. Telefónica Europe has 54 million mobile
and fixed network customers in Great Britain, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany.
Telefónica O2 Germany GmbH & Co. OHG Georg-Brauchle-Ring 23-25 80992 München Deutschland www.o2.com/de
Ust.-Id.-Nr. DE 811 889 638. Amtsgericht München HRA 70343. Gesellschafter: Telefónica O2 Germany Management GmbH.
Amtsgericht München HRB 109061 und Telefónica O2 Germany Verwaltungs GmbH. Amtsgericht München HRB 121389, beide ebenda.
Geschäftsführer beider Gesellschafter: René Schuster, Vorsitzender. Andrea Folgueiras. Markus Haas. Thorsten Haeser.
André Krause. Joachim Kugoth. Jens Prautzsch. Johannes Pruchnow. Peter Rampling. Lutz Schüler. Robert Simmeth. Carsten Wreth.
About O2 Crew
O2 customers have the opportunity to register on the website www.o2crew.de and start a crew as
"Captain". This means that you invite friends or social networks - whether O2 customer or customers of
the competition - to sign up on the O2 Crew website. The crew captain and his crew can then win free
event tickets. For each event O2 provides the participants with strategies on how to win. In addition,
there are other exciting activities and an O2 Crew event calendar, which provides an overview of all
events.
In 2010 O2 crew offers live entertainment from the fields of music, dance, comedy and cinema for free
and all year round in Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne, Duesseldorf and O2 World in Berlin and Hamburg.
The free tickets are only available on the website www.o2crew.de.
About 1GOAL
In 2000, 164 world governments came together to create the UN Millennium Development Goals. Two
of the eight goals involve ending poverty through providing education for all, which ensured that all
boys and girls complete primary schooling by 2015. Since then many countries have abolished school
fees, spending was increased and an extra 40 million children are now going to school. However,
today 75 million children are still unable to go to school. 1GOAL is an initiative to mobilise support to
hold world leaders to these promises for 2015 and is run by the Global Campaign for Education and is
part of a large global education initiative.
1GOAL is being coordinated by the GSMA, which represents the global mobile industry and is
supported by more than 140 of the biggest names in the football world, among them Zinedine Zidane,
Alessandro del Piero, Rio Ferdinand, Thierry Henry und Eusebio. From the entertainment world
1GOAL is supported by Shakira, Jessica Alba and Kevin Spacey.
Further information:
Telefónica O2 Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
Presseabteilung
Iris Rothbauer, External Communications Manager
Georg-Brauchle-Ring 23-25
80992 München
t +49 (0)89 2442-1208
f +49 (0)89 2442-1209
e [email protected]
www.o2.de/presse