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05/02/21

SozialMarie Award

The SozialMarie 2021 goes to...

The winners of the SozialMarie - Prize for Social Innovation have now been announced! The Prize was awarded by an international jury to 15 outstanding projects from Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.

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03/05/21

Our Events

Social impact measuring – Where are you in the process?

Do you use an impact measurement tool to measure the social impact of your project and organisation? Social impact measurement is an important tool for monitoring our impact and demonstrating the legitimacy of our activities, and at the same time a learning process that can inspire more and more innovations. This blog post is about two impact measurement systems and a related workshop.

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02/24/21

Social Innovation Insights

Applications for the SozialMarie 2021

What do the submissions for the SozialMarie tell us about current social trends and problems?

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01/12/21

SozialMarie Award

Social Innovation Workshop 7+1 tips

We once again invited future Hungarian SozialMarie applicants to come together for ‘think sessions’. The result: 7 + 1 tips for a successful application!

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01/07/21

SozialMarie Award

SozialMarie application: Less frequently asked questions

Are you looking for answers to specific questions about the SozialMarie criteria for social innovation, or the application process? In case you have missed our Q&A event, you might find useful answers in this summary. 

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01/01/21

Social Innovation Insights

Innovative, but how?

"A promising new idea proves to be socially innovative when people change their attitudes due to it, make different choices, and new institutions and social practices are created.” 

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12/23/20

Social Innovation Insights

How much novelty does innovation require? – A very short introduction for project managers

 "I have a social project, but is it innovative enough? What does innovation actually mean?" These questions are frequently asked every year during the application phase for SozialMarie. In this blog post, we give a mini-introduction to innovation theory. 

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12/16/20

Best Practice Stories

Audience Award winner played an important role during the epidemic

Do you remember the 2020 SozialMarie Audience Award winning project? Do you wonder how the award helped strengthen the project’s visibility further? And do you know how blind and partially sighted people are affected by the epidemic? Get to know the Remote Eye project and their successes!

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11/26/20

Our Events

Social goes digital

For many social initiatives, it is still a challenge to reach out to their target audience over the distancing required due to COVID 19. Some projects have taken a break, others manage to continue their work digitally. What makes a strategy successful in times of a pandemic? 

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09/17/20

Best Practice Stories

The Veterans' Struggle

Neues Deutschland reports on SozialMarie award winner Zeleni odred (The Green Squad).

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