Cosmote Romania announces the 5 winners of the COSMOTE Scholarships program second edition
The number of students supported through the COSMOTE Scholarships program has doubled this year following the completion of the evaluation campaign for the second edition of this social responsibility program launched in 2010. Five new students receive, starting this year, financial support during their academic studies, through a scholarship consisting in the equivalent in RON of 150 Euro/month per each student, for nine months (October - June) per year.

The students granted with a COSMOTE Scholarship in the second edition are: Samsonescu Daniela from Suceava, student at "Stefan cel Mare” University in Suceava and "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" Agriculture Studies and Veterinary Medicine University in Iasi, Balan Elena-Lavinia from Iasi, student at "GR. T. Popa" Medicine and Pharmacy University in Iasi, Panoschi Cristina-Laura from Neamt, student at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Miron Victor-Daniel from Tecuci, Galati, student at "Carol Davila" Medicine and Pharmacy University in Bucharest and Neatu Diana-Andreea from Giurgiu, student at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest.

“We are happy to discover, this year as well, young talented people, community oriented, passionate and with a clear vision towards the fields they chose to perform in. I can say that, during this edition also, we discovered candidates with great appetence for study and real promise for achieving great results in their following careers. We would like to congratulate all the candidates for the results up to this point and wish them to have the same luck from now on also ”, said Ruxandra Voda, Corporate Affairs Manager COSMOTE Romania.

The second edition of the COSMOTE Scholarhips drew the attention of over 200 young students, who applyed in the program, between September 15th and October 15th, from which 168 were validated and taken into consideration for selection of the 25 finalists. The jury of the 2011 edition evaluated the 25 finalists during 2 days of interviews, followed by the selection of the 5 winners.

At its second edition, the COSMOTE Scholarships program targets fresh high school graduates from 2010 and 2011, admitted in a Romanian state-run higher education institution, during the admission sessions of 2011.

More details about the program are available at www.burselecosmote.ro.

As a responsible and active part of the society, COSMOTE Romania is involving its employees, customers, suppliers and business partners in different initiatives and programs which respond to the Romanian social environment requirements. Through the social responsibility programs developed by COSMOTE Romania are: the “Custom of Love - New Year’s SMS campaign”, the partnership with the Child’s Phone Association, the internal program for protecting the environment “Green Office” and others.

COSMOTE Romania had 6.5 million customers at September 30, 2011. Launched in 2005, COSMOTE Romania achieved the fastest network development in Europe, according to the Citigroup report in June 2007. In less than 5 years, COSMOTE Romania surpassed its competitors in terms of national network coverage. Today, COSMOTE Romania offers seamless communication to more than 99% of the population and 90% of the territory. COSMOTE Romania is a subsidiary of COSMOTE Group, the operator with the strongest presence in SE Europe with approximately 20.4 million customers in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. For more information, visit www.cosmote.ro.