004 - Award of the Gold Medal of the Mérite européen to the internationally renowned artist/painter Chu Teh-Chun, to Jean-Marie Mantz, former Dean of Strasbourg’s Faculty of Medicine, who is very much involved in drawing up a European medical code of ethics, to Prof. Marcel van de Voorde, an eminent scientist, university professor and European nanoscience specialist, and to Colette Hartwich, who is responsible for various charitable projects.