bestimmtes Projekt?
1st place
Against fuel poverty with biomass briquettes (Hungary)
Real Pearl Foundation
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Person submitting: Feldmár Nóra Web address: http://igazgyongy-alapitvany.hu/alapitvany/biobrikett-program/ |
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Technology customized on-site to meet specific needs has produced a simple, community-building, innovative solution to a problem of subsistence by using local resources. Only the mixer requires electric power and everything else is 'run' mechanically by hand or foot. Working together, the villagers continue to improve the production of biomass briquettes: how work is organized, which auxiliary tools are needed and how they can be improved. The application of academic knowledge can be so simple, enabling a way out and putting a better future within reach. A future that returns energy. Hopefully.
2nd place
Night Out (Czech Republic)
Faculty of Social Studies, University of Ostrava
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Person submitting: Eliška Lindovská Web address: www.nocvenku.cz |
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The idea was to provoke discussion about ever growing homelessness in an innovative way – and indeed more people than expected actually responded to that provocation. It was a nightly event that enlivened the city and created links between those involved. A difficult topic has been tackled publicly in a creative and bold way. Other towns have signed up to participate in the next ‘Night Out’. The result is that society is not permitted to simply ignore a social phenomenon any more. One of the reasons is that the people affected are able to contribute to shaping the image that others have of them. In this way, political processes in the best sense can be triggered.
3rd place
Urban Community Garden "Miracle Gardens" (Croatia)
Associaton for sustainable living promotion GARDEN BED
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Person submitting: Goran Hanžek Web address: http://gredica.wordpress.com/ |
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This is the first project of its kind in Croatia: healthy and affordable food for all who participate, organic farming, conservation and recovery of species diversity, self-organized work on a communal basis, and self-sustaining cooperation in solidarity with one another. The innovative concept has been written about and talked about. Its impact extends far beyond the people directly involved and it has already become a model for other towns and cities. The project is also about resistance to industrialized food production. ‘Miracle Gardens’ demonstrate that a public space can be used productively, opening up possibilities for imagining other community-based initiatives too.
1000 EUR award
The Last Shell Be First - Youth for Youth (Hungary)
Snetberger Music Talent Public Benefit Foundation
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Person submitting: Tromposch Julianna Web address: www.snetbergerkozpont.hu |
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Role models from the same social community show what opportunities there are for self-development. In ‘The Last Shall Be First - Youth for Youth’ programme, such ‘role models’ are available at several levels simultaneously. Far from being divorced from the real world, the project presents entirely achievable possibilities. In this way, the generalized view of the permanent vulnerability of the Roma minority is contradicted in the minds of the minority itself, thereby setting in motion action leading away from the the socially prescribed framework so that social mobility can begin.
1000 EUR award
Dreams of Junk (Hungary)
Multikulti 2009 Bt.
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Person submitting: Illés Márton Web address: www.szemetalmok.blogspot.com |
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‘Dreams of Junk’ is the first social-cultural initiative in Hungary that aims its activities at the ‘lomis', Hungary's informal collectors and collectors of used goods. Together with local young people who live in the neighbourhoods, they produce art in public spaces from (no longer) used items. Shared learning as part of such public activities creates a stable framework for social groups to come closer together that would otherwise not have anything to do with each other. The project also allows for a change of image: the ‘lomis' are collecting future works of art, rather than picking up rubbish – and that´s definitely innovative.
1000 EUR award
Virtuelle Beratungsstelle für Mädchen und junge Frauen, die von Zwangsheirat bedroht oder betroffen sind (Vienna)
Orient Express - Beratungs-, Bildungs- und Kulturinitiative für Frauen
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Person submitting: Hannah Mayr Web address: www.gegen-zwangsheirat.at |
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Above all those girls and women who are new to Austria, but also those who went to school here and may have even completed a course of study can be affected, especially in the summer months. Each affected woman should be able to turn to a competent advisor completely anonymously and without fear of being caught. That needs to be possible without great effort and that´s the project´s innovation: thanks to the online platform the inhibition threshold is lowered. It is also important that the girl or woman in question be able to leave the chat quickly, because freedom of movement for affected women as well as those wishing to help them is typically very limited. For that reason the chat needs to be possible from anywhere at any time and needs to be able to be interrupted immediately.
1000 EUR award
Romani Platni - Alternative means of reducing prejudice (Hungary)
Esély Association
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Person submitting: Nagy Krisztina Web address: www.romaniplatni.blogspot.com |
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Talking is easier over a meal. That is the simple, in this case innovative idea that lies behind ‘Romani Platni’. The people talking with one another should be Roma and non-Roma people. Delicacies from Roma cuisine stimulate the desire to become better acquainted. If we eat the home-made cooking of Roma women, our perception of the cooks changes and may even do so permanently. It is also the only opportunity to enjoy traditional Roma cuisine in Budapest. Cooking and eating together enhances the status of both sides, because degradation no longer comes quite as easily. We hope the project can expand as a business!
1000 EUR award
Poor for the Poor (Hungary)
Regional Social Welfare Resource Centre Budapest
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Person submitting: Gosztonyi Géza |
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People who know poverty because they have lived in poverty are given a chance to get out of it with this experience and at the same time help others. ‘Poor for the Poor’ recognizes that this 'experience of poverty' is similar to professional experience as a skill and introduces it in a professional context, i.e. as paid expertise, among other measures being used to reduce poverty. Personal experience with poverty is seen as expertise and capitalized as such, to the benefit of the participants and society.
1000 EUR award
Aufbau vom Aktivationszentrum für Jugendliche mit der Erkrankung Schizofrenie/BERÜHRUNG (Czech Republic)
EC-Employment Consulting GmbH
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Person submitting: Monika Höklová Web address: www.empl-cons.cz |
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According to the peer principle experiences are shared by those who know precisely what they are talking about because they also had to learn to deal with schizophrenia. What is important is the plentiful time available to the tandem pairs and the fact that they meet with planned regularity. The support from specialist doctors in training the assistants and ongoing supervision are also central to the project. In this way young people who have been taken ill with schizophrenia have something like a professional friend at their side – a huge innovation in the field of care work. A new network is created that provides sustained support for the family and a sense of integrated safety to all those involved.
1000 EUR award
trotz allem vernetzt (Vorarlberg)
IfS-Familienarbeit
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Person submitting: Hubert Löffler Web address: www.ifs.at |
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The interconnected, complex offer provided by ‘despite everything - networked’ is tailored to individual problems faced by socially marginalized families. By combining personal initiative and professional support, opportunities arise for connecting in a 'natural' way with already existing networks. The complexity of the approach and the active participation of children, teenagers, and their families as a whole are very innovative. Being anchored in the community through activities on the local level strengthens the social network and thus contributes to improved social and personal co-existence.