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09/14/2025
09/14/2025
2nd of October 2025: Webinar with Marie Jilkova
We kindly invite you to our Webinar with Marie Jilkova "How to talk to politicians and officials. Marie is SozialMarie Patron for Czech Republic this year and member of parliament of Czech Republic.
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09/12/2025
09/12/2025
Časoris Celebrates Milestone Year with 10th Anniversary and Global Youth Journalism Gold Award
Časoris, Slovenia’s children’s newspaper, marks 2025 with its 10th anniversary, a SozialMarie award, and the Global Youth & News Media Gold Prize for innovative youth journalism.
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07/07/2025
07/07/2025
Backstage at SozialMarie 2025! Episode 12 is out, Tune in now!
Sparkle, goosebumps and social change – that’s how we’d describe our 2025 award ceremony. But what really happens behind the scenes? What thoughts guide our jury as they navigate over 400 submissions? And what does social innovation mean today? Listen to the podcast here.
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07/05/2025
07/05/2025
(Re)Building Democracy 2025 - Pecs
Summary of Key Insights from (Re)Building Democracy 2025 Pécs, Hungary | June 18–19, 2025 Our coordinator of Czech Republic, Lenka Safrankova joined this years Conference in Pecs. Here you can find her summary of the dicussions. Status of democracy and civil society in the CEE region Michal Vašečka (SK) “We are living through the biggest paradigmatic shift of our lifetimes — akin to the agricultural or industrial revolution, but much faster.” He refered to the classical three-sector model of society (state (public sector), the market (private sector), and civil society (nonprofit and voluntary sector)). He described Central and Eastern Europe as “a ship stuck on a sandbank,” paralyzed and fatigued by change: “We are a region like a ship stranded on a sandbank. We are unable to navigate the change — we are fatigued.” “People believe democracy no longer delivers what they want. They've given up.” Half of Slovaks do not participate in civic life; the other half is drawn to conspiracies.
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06/01/2025
06/01/2025
Videos of SozialMarie Winners 2025
Learn more about the SozialMarie 2024 winners in 1-minute videos for each project.
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05/02/2025
05/02/2025
Our SozialMarie 2025 winners and the Event highlights in pictures!
Just announced and already shining – here’s the very first winners' photo! On May 1st, 2025, the 21st SozialMarie Award Ceremony took place at the beautiful MuTh Vienna. Our 2025 laureates bring fresh energy and powerful ideas for social innovation across Europe.
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04/22/2025
04/22/2025
New Podcast Episode: “My Voice, My Choice” – A Voice for Europe
In the latest episode of our SozialMarie Podcast, Živa and José welcome the impressive Nika Kovač, Director of the Inštitut 8. marec.
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04/22/2025
04/22/2025
… and the winner of the audience award is….
We warmly congratulate the Austrian project "Pferdinands Trostbox" on winning the SocialMarie Audience Award 2025.
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