Welcome

Welcome to the Pedro Arrupe Award Website. Planning is currently underway for the 2008 edition of the Pedro Arrupe Award.  The event will be officially launched in September 2008 and it is hoped that the competition will build on the success of its previous editions.

This website is aimed to students and teachers of the Jesuit Schools in Europe and other schools linked to the JRS network. Here you can find information about the award and refugee issues.

The Pedro Arrupe Award is a project on refugees organized by JRS Europe through the Jesuit schools in Europe and other schools linked to the JRS network. The award seeks to promote understanding and tolerance of the refugee issue among young people as well as encourage their creative engagement with the issue.

Students will first spend some time studying refugee issues with their classmates. Then they will have the chance to win a trip to a JRS project in Europe by completing a project to demonstrate what they have learned.

Projects will give students the chance to demonstrate their understanding of the topic through a broad range of options depending on their own skills and interests. Entries can include radio programmes, songs, paintings, sculptures, photo dossier albums, websites, videos, a story or a poem.