The Integration and Development Centre for Information and Research or IDC ( uk, Інформаційно-дослідницький центр "Інтеграція та розвиток", russian: Информационно-исследовательский центр "Интеграция и развитие") is a

non-governmental organization A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...

from

Simferopol Simferopol () is the second-largest city in the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and is considered the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. However, ...

, Crimea, Ukraine, founded in 1997. It aims to promote civil society, democracy, tolerance and intercultural relations in

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

. In 2009, the centre was chosen by an international jury led by the OSCE

High Commissioner on National Minorities Created on July 8, 1992 by the Helsinki Summit Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), now known as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) ...

to receive the Max van der Stoel Award from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.

References

External links

Centre's website
Organizations based in Simferopol Organizations established in 1997 1997 establishments in Ukraine Think tanks based in Ukraine {{Ukraine-org-stub