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Culture, ERSTE Foundation
Péter Szabó is the Artist-in-Residence in May at MQ Vienna
Péter Szabó is the new Artist-in-Residence, who is spending the month of May in Vienna in one of the studio spaces of quartier21/ MuseumsQuartier. Péter Szabó was born in Tirgu-Mures, Romania, and lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. He is founding member of Protokoll Studio from Cluj and of the noise-music bands Alergische Platze and Ovekk Finn. [...]more
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Culture, ERSTE Foundation, Events
Free School for Art Theory and Practice
The Unmaking of Art – Four Stories on Exhibitions, Museums and Art History proposed by Jelena Vesić in collaboration with the Museum of American Art – Berlin. Lecturers: Walter Benjamin, Alfred Barr, Gertrude Stein and Jelena Vesić. A project by tranzit.hu. It is obvious that today nobody prays in front of a religious painting in [...]more -
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A symbol comes to life: ERSTE Foundation has now its own beehive
A hive of 15,000 bees from the Alpine foothills in Lower Austria moved to the “ERSTE Foundation beehive” on Tuesday, 17 April 2012. Even though environmental issues are not in fact part of ERSTE Foundation’s programme, the foundation has been using the bee in its logo since its inception. The bees’ new home is the roof [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Social Development
The good.bee Idea
In the Central and South Eastern European countries, around 35 million people do not even have a simple current bank account. There is a clear need for small-scale sensible loans and additional support for enterprising individuals and communities. A combination of Micro-Banking and Social Enterprise Finance can play a real part in renewing the region, [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events
We are moving to our Facebook page
20 March 2012 We wish to inform all our friends and partners that our ERSTE Stiftung Facebook profile will be officially closed in three weeks starting from today. Therefore, this profile will no longer be updated with new information, activities or collaborations. Within this three weeks period we will be gradually shifting all communications to [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Social Development
Hilfswerk Austria Conference in Chisinau
29 March 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova Hilfswerk Austria organises the final conference of the project “Network of Day Care Centres for Children with Disability in the Republic of Moldova” supported by ERSTE Foundation. The network of day care centres has been strengthening its capacities and becoming more innovative in its integrative approaches throughout the [...]more -
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Ian Kershaw and Timothy Snyder appointed for “Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2012″
At an award ceremony at Leipziger Gewandhaus, taking place on 14 March 2012 during Leipzig Book Fair 2012, Ian Kershaw and Timothy Snyder will be honoured with the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2012. The British historian and author Ian Kershaw is best know for his extensive and profound biography on Adolf Hitler and [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Europe, Events
Kakanien – New Homelands Kicks Off
29 March 2012, 8 pm, Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz Am Schwarzenbergplatz 1, 1010 Vienna with Joachim Meyerhoff & Miljenko Jergović Joachim Meyerhoff kicks off the series Kakanien – New Homelands (Kakanien: Neue Heimaten) by adding a very personal touch to the evening: The German author and actor, who is a member of Vienna’s Burgtheater ensemble, [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Open Calls, Social Development
Push the button, change the world!
Are you a student from Austria, Czech Republic or Romania? Do you have entrepreneurial spirit and ideas and you would like to make a contribution to the society? Now you have the chance to be part of a group of motivated young people with the same interests, to further build up your business and managerial [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events, Social Development
Franz Karl Prüller elected in the Advisory Board for Development Policy of the Austrian Foreign Ministry
On 20 February the Austrian Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger opened the first session of the Advisory Board for Development Policy of the Austrian Foreign Ministry. The body consists of experts who on voluntary basis provide advice to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on issues related to Austrian development cooperation. We are happy to announce that Franz [...]more -
Culture, ERSTE Foundation, Invitation
The Mobile Archive at tranzitdisplay
A project of The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon 24.02 – 03.06.2012 Opening: 23.2. 6 p.m. tranzitdisplay: Dittrichova 9/337 120 00, Prague 2 tranzit.cz is, for over three months, the host of an extensive Israeli multimedia archive, which includes most of the important Israeli media artworks. The Mobile Archive, initiated in 2007, is [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events
Visiting ERSTE Foundation: Rundek Cargo Trio
Rundek Cargo Trio is a sort of Balkan gothic cabaret, worldwide, full of sound and fury, defying any attempt of categorisation. It was funded by Darko Rundek, one of the main exponents of the former Yugoslav New Wave in the early 80´s who left Zagreb to Paris during the civil war and who seems forever [...]more -
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Georg Winckler elected as president of the association
In its last general assembly the association “DIE ERSTE österreichische Spar-Casse Privatstiftung” elected Georg Winckler, former rector of the University of Vienna, as its new president. Georg Winckler takes over from Karl Korinek, who has resigned due to health reasons. Georg Winckler’s first representative in the association will be Johanna Rachinger, director of the Austrian National [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events
Kontakt Sofia… Works from the Kontakt Art Collection
Exhibition, 22 October – 27 November 2011 Opening: 21 October, 6 pm Sofia City Art Gallery, 1 Gurko Str., Sofia 1000, Bulgaria Opening remarks by Christine Böhler, Walter Seidl & Maria Vassileva Curators: Maria Vassileva, Walter Seidl The exhibition at the Sofia City Gallery presents a large part of the Kontakt Art Collection, which aims [...]more -
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Doraja Eberle new member of ERSTE Foundation's Managing Board
The advisory board of DIE ERSTE österreichische Spar-Casse Privatstiftung has appointed Doraja Eberle as member of the Managing Board of ERSTE Foundation. Doraja Eberle holds a diploma as a social worker and was previously member of the provincial government of Salzburg. In 1992, she founded an association called “Bauern helfen Bauern”, which helps victims of the Balkan [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events, Social Development
Happy Birthday, Zweite Sparkasse!
Die Zweite Sparkasse celebrates its 5th anniversary 7 branches, 430 voluntary staff members, 7,500 customers 200 customers transferred to a “normal” bank account in 2011 “We are happy about the drain of customers!” The “bank for the unbankable” was founded on 4 October 2006 as an initiative and with the capital of ERSTE Foundation. The concept is [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events
DER STANDARD Mentoring Circle: "Social Business – Social Responsibility"
Networking event, 15 June 2011, 7 pm Palais Schönborn, MOYA, Museum of Young Art, Renngasse 4, 1010 Vienna At the second last networking event of this mentoring year, the topic for discussion will be, “Social Business – Social Responsibility”. On the panel: Andreas Treichl, CEO Erste Group Bank AG (photo) Petra Jenner, Microsoft Wolfgang Bergmann, [...]more -
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ERSTE Foundation Website: A Brand New Look
The ERSTE Foundation website has a new look. But the real change is in the approach, not the appearance. While we have refined the design, we have also made the access to our content more user-friendly. Our main idea is to help our readers quickly and easily find what they are looking for. We’ve cleaned [...]more -
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Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence
Journalists from the Balkans did not have many opportunities to travel abroad or to participate in appropriate training. Hence, they are often under-prepared to tackle the challenges of reporting on complex reform issues that have regional or European dimensions. The Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence has been set up to change this.more -
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Rupert Dollinger new member of ERSTE Foundation's Managing Board
Rupert Dollinger will replace Dietrich Karner. This was announced yesterday by Karl Korinek, president of the Association DIE ERSTE österreichische Spar-Casse Privatstiftung and president of ERSTE Foundation’s Supervisory Board, at the annual general meeting of the Association. Dietrich Karner, who served as deputy chairman of ERSTE Foundation’s Managing Board, will withdraw from his function on the grounds that he has reached the age [...]more -
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Happy Holidays!
Dear partners and friends, ERSTE Foundation will be closed from 23 December 2010, 1:00 pm until 9 January 2011. We are back in office on Monday, 10 January from 9:00 am. We wish you a bright and joyous holiday season and happiness in the year to come! 2011 will be the European Year of Volunteering. Let us all join the global efforts to revive the [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation, Events
Rambo Amadeus at ERSTE Foundation
Rambo Amadeus is the stage name of the Belgrade-based Montenegrin singer-songwriter Antonije Pusic, popular all over former Yugoslavia. The self-titled “musician, poet, and media manipulator” continues to be one of the most interesting phenomena on the music scene of the former Yugoslavia. His songs combine satirical lyrics on the nature of common people and silliness [...]more -
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Area Studies in a Globalizing World
Conference, 11 -12 June 2010 Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Austria Southeast European or Balkan studies have passed turbulent years not only what the political landscape of the region is concerned but also in respect to the requirements of the disciplines dealing with the region. The time has come for a critical reflection: What have we [...]more -
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The Promises of the Past
A Discontinuous History of Art in Former Eastern Europe 14 April – 19 July 2010 Exhibition Opening: 13 April 2010, 6 pm Centre Pompidou, Paris Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the exhibition looks at Europe’s former East/West divide, and challenges the idea of art history as something linear and continuous. The [...]more -
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Exhibition: Eclipsed Voices
10 March – 2 April 2010 Open Space, Vienna The exhibition presents two works whose subject matters alter diverse issues of social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of our daily life. Each work, in its own way, has the restrained intention of trying to understand the local realities that surround us and shape our identity.more -
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GENDER CHECK
Artist Talks & Bar – Art, Politics and Gender 14 and 28 January 2010, 7 pm, followed by a DJ line Talks about art, politics and gender roles in Eastern Europe before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Guest DJs will be producing sounds on the turntables after the talks. MUMOK Café, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 [...]more -
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Photo exhibition: Corridor X by Davor Konjikušić
6-10 December 2009, Belgrade Opening: 6 December 2009 at 8 pm This is a documentary photo essay about the Pan-European Corridor X (10). Starting in Salzburg, the author travelled trough Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria,Turkey, Greece and Macedonia searching for the answer to the question what/whom exactly does this highway connect. The result of this [...]more -
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Magic Blocks
Exhibition 8 September - 29 October 2009, Berlin Opening speakers: Kristin Feireiss, Aedes Berlin Adriana Winkler, Romanian Cultural Attaché in Berlin Stefan Ghenciulescu, Zeppelin Opening hours: Mon-Sun 10 am - 8 pm AedesLand Savignyplatz, Else-Ury-Bogen 600, 10623 Berlin www.aedes-arc.de The cityscape of Bucharest is dominated by huge, standardised public housing estates built during the socialist era, mainly in the [...]more -
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ORF TV Culture Head Martin Traxl one of the winners of the Anna Lindh Journalist Award for the 10-part documentary "Return to Europe"
Presided by André Azoulay, President of the Anna Lindh Foundation, and chaired by renowned Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, the jury of the Anna Lindh Mediterranean Journalist Award convening in Rome officially announced the winners of the 2009 edition of the prize. The winners of the Award, which is among the leading regional prizes for journalists [...]more -
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ERSTE Foundation helped make 2009 European Forum Alpbach a "Green Meeting"
For its contribution to holding the European Forum Alpbach 2009 ecologically sustainable, ERSTE Foundation was nominated partner of the initiative "Green Meeting Alpbach 2009" by the European Forum Alpbach.more -
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What's Up goes Twitter
From now on all the latest articles from What’s Up are posted to Twitter too. more