Jans Gremmée Award

The award named after the founder of UWE Jans Gremmée from the Netherlands has been given to women to honour their work and efforts for a better education and position of women and girls.

Jans Gremmée award 2016 Elizabeth Poskitt  (UK)

There was no winner of the JGA in 2014.

 

With pleasure the JGA commission annonces that the JGA of 2015 will be awarded to Raija Sollamo.
Raija has been nominated for the JGA by the former CIR/CER of VVAO and the president of UWE.

 

• Raija Sollamo’s work on the DVMEW was the uniting power of the DVMEW project,

• She never imposed judgment and her work always added sense to what had been done,

• She set firm guidelines for future work and that required a lot of inner power and dedication,

• Her wise leadership helped the project to get safely over the obstacles and to avoid any risk of a dead end,

• The comment of the DVMEW team: working with Raija was an enriching experience!

 

 

In 2013, at the IFUW conference in Istanbul, DR. Anje Wiersinga from the Netherlands was awarded the Jans Gremee Award 2014 for her outstanding work in the Council of Europe for women all over the world.

 

 

Information on procedure and background of the Jans Gremmée award is to be found here.