The Foundation together with the Balkan Environmental Research and Development Institute (BERDI) and the Balkan Physical Union proclaimed a Balkaniad for the Environment. The awards were presented to students from Romania, FYROM, Turkey and Greece, during a ceremony held in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on October 1998.

Professors of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki with the General Secretary of WMO Professor G.O.P. Obasi and students.