News item | 03-02-2022 | 17:00
The winners of the ECHO Awards were announced on Thursday 3 February by Minister Dijkgraaf (OCW). Assamaual Saidi Rabah, Elijah Alvares, Mohammed Badran and Rosie Zheng received this award. They distinguished themselves because of their excellent academic performance, their entrepreneurial attitude, organizational capacity and constructive approach to challenges related to exclusion within society. The winners will be rewarded with a fully groomed summer course at UCLA in Los Angeles.
The ECHO Award is an initiative of ECHO, Center of Expertise on Diversity Policy, and this year celebrated its 21stste edition. With the aim of offering a positive counterpoint to the social debate about diversity in society, the ECHO Award offers a platform to students with a non-Western background who try to make their contribution to a more inclusive society.
Winners four ECHO Awards
This year, 42 candidates were nominated by colleges and universities across the Netherlands. An independent jury of representatives from education and business selected 14 finalists. Four of them were declared winners.
Winner ECHO Award HBO
Elijah Alvares (he/him) – Student of Public Administration at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
Elijah is a board member of the BSKA study association and a student assessor of the Executive Board.
Winner ECHO Award
Mohammed Badran (he/him) – Student Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at the Free University.
Winner Beta Technology Award
Rosie Zheng (she/her) – Student Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam
Loyens & Loeff Law & Tax Award winner
Assamaual Saidi Rabah (he/him)- Student of Law and Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.
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About the ECHO Award
The ECHO Award is an initiative that recognizes the importance of investing in and recognizing excellent talent from society. The presentation of the ECHO Award is made possible by colleges and universities that nominate their non-Western talents from various faculties. The ECHO Award is an initiative from the public and private sector and is made possible by: Loyens & Loeff, the Dutch Railways, Boston Consulting Group and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.