The ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration 2011 addresses to twelve countries from CSEE region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Organizations from these countries are invited to apply with their projects from the 1 September until the 30 November 2010. The foundation award for social integration promotes and recognizes organizations in the public and non-profit sectors that engage people’s abilities, capacities, and initiatives for socially-oriented practice and progressive change in society.
The Award is integral to the ERSTE Foundation Social Development programme , which emphasizes a commitment to human and cultural diversity, holistic human development, social and economic justice, and individual and group self-determination. It is given to innovative and creative social integration projects that have made a valuable impact and difference in the lives of intended beneficiaries. The financial component of the Award is intended to further the awardees in their social practice. In addition to the financial grant, the Award provides wide exposure so that winning projects get more visibility. It creates opportunities for the winners to have better access to networks of possible partners and supporters, as well as to the databases of ERSTE Foundation. Projects have to demonstrate outcomes, results, and sustainability. The Award is open to the public sector, civil society, private initiatives, and religious communities as well as to the media. Eligible projects must be: completed before the date of application, ongoing but with presentable outcomes, results, and/or sustainable elements and the implementation location must be in one (or more) of the twelve countries.
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