Previous Awards
The last call received more than 1,300 applications from 8 countries in the region. Non-profit organisations as well as public administrations, civil-society and private initiatives, religious communities, and media based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia were eligible to apply. The winners were selected by an international jury comprising of 17 renowned experts.
Since its inception in early 2007, the ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration has considerably grown in scope and size: the Award has almost quadrupled growing from EUR 85,000 in 2007 to EUR 295,000 in 2009 when the list of participating countries has been extended to include 8 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosova, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.
