November 30 2015, RAS President, Rudi Gamper has been awarded in the conference hall of the education ministry in Vienna, for his merits as educator and cultural mediator. Starting as a moderator in some folk music programs Mr. Gamper built a solid career in the television world, working as coordinator of RAI Sender Bozen between 1998 and 2006 and covering the role of President in RAS since then.