SozialMarie

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News

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.

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.

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.

02/27/2025

SozialMarie 2025 – Our nominated projects have been selected!

Congratulations to 34 projects on their nomination for SozialMarie!

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SozialMarie is a prize for social innovation that is awarded every year to outstanding projects. It honours initiatives that offer novel, sustainable and exemplary solutions to current social challenges. You can find out more about what we mean by social innovation and how the prize is awarded here.

Projects

Every year since 2005, socially innovative projects from various sectors have been honoured with the SozialMarie. Would you like to find out more about the projects, see who has been nominated and who is one of the lucky winners? Click here for the projects.

Insights

Did you know that we have a podcast? Would you like to click through pictures from past events or find out what else we do apart from the SozialMarie application and award ceremony? Take a look at our Insights.

Patrons

What do a workshop, a social media post, bread dough and a charity event have in common? The patron of honour for a nominated project. You can find more information about our inspiring patrons here.