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Europe
Open call: Milena Jesenska Fellowships for Journalists 2011/2012
Deadline for application: 15 April 2011 The programme offers European journalists time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a topic of their choice. This is the first time that the IWM will strongly encourage candidates from Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan to apply for this programme. Applicants are asked to [...]more -
Europe
Next stop Kakania: 24 March, 8 pm, Kasino
Speech by Dževad Karahasan, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Austria Moderation: Michael Fleischhacker, chief editor Die Presse Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Schwarzenbergplatz 1, 1010 Vienna Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, raised in Sarajevo, today partially resident in Graz, Dževad Karahasan is at home in several cultures - a fact which for him is the driving force behind his writing. The acclaimed author [...]more -
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It's the Political Economy, Stupid
Exhibition, 16 March – 25 April 2011 Opening: 15 March, 7 pm, Vienna Participating artists: Zanny Begg, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, Damon Rich, Superflex Project curators: Oliver Ressler and Gregory Sholette Also in 2011, ERSTE Foundation supports the exhibition programme of Open Space, Open Systems – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte. The exhibition It’s the Political Economy, Stupid [...]more -
Culture
Manifesta 8 lecture in Budapest, by curatorial team tranzit.org
1 March 2011, 6 pm Ludwig Museum, Budapest One of the curatorial teams of Manifesta 8, tranzit.org – represented by Vit Havranek, Dora Hegyi, Boris Ondreicka and Georg Schollhammer – shares its experiences about the possibility to democratically „constitute” the rules of a group exhibition organized in Murcia, Spain in 2010. Given the motto [...]more -
Culture
tranzit.cz publishes first Czech translation of a book by John Cage: "Silence"
Official book launch: 24 February 2011, 6 pm tranzitdisplay, Dittrichova 9, Prague 2 Silence is a seminal compilation of writings by American avant-garde composer, poet and artist John Cage. Despite the fact that this pioneer of experimental and electronic music visited Czechoslovakia as far back as 1964, and despite his considerable fame and the fact [...]more -
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Extravagant bodies: Extravagant minds 2011
International festival of mental health – public discussions 8 February 2011, Belgrade 19 February 2011, Skopje The interdisciplinary festival Extravagant Bodies Extravagant Minds, which started off in Zagreb in October 2010, introduced a much discussed topic, namely the politics of normality with a focus on mental illness and intellectual disabilities. Based on the fact that what is [...]more -
Europe
aces: New call for project proposals!
The topic for 2011: Building bridges in societies volunteer in your communities! Peers supporting those with learning difficulties in schools, members of the choir giving concerts in an old peoples home, retirees teaching their language to immigrants, young and old engaging in initiatives that protect the environment or fight discrimination everyone has the potential to [...]more -
General Funding
Europe talks to Europe. A Polylogue on Culture and Politics
Splitting up? The renationalization of Europe 10 February, 6:30 pm, Lviv What explains nationalism’s renewed importance and what distinguishes the various expressions of nationalism across Europe today? Why is nationalism associated with conflict in some cases and not in others? And does it make sense at all to talk in the same terms about contemporary [...]more -
Europe
The debate about Europe goes on: 20 February 2011, 11 am
The fight for the euro and the future of the European Union Burgtheater, Vienna The common European currency is in crisis. Mainly, but not only member states at the fringe of the Union are struggling with high public debt rates, which puts the whole concept of the European Union at risk. Which possibilities are there to overcome [...]more -
Europe
Next stop Kakania: 23 February 2011, 8 pm
Authors Tena tivi?i? from Croatia, Radek Knapp from Poland Moderation: Bettina Steiner, head of feuilleton Die Presse “I only started to feel Croat after I came to London”, says Tena tivi?i?, a graduate of Zagreb’s drama school and London’s Goldsmith College who started to write plays and TV scripts in English and Croatian after her studies. Based in the “melting [...]more -
Europe
Call for applications on 2011's topic: JUSTICE
ERSTE Foundation and Robert Bosch Stiftung, in cooperation with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), are pleased to announce the launch of the fifth Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme. Experienced journalists are encouraged to apply and submit research proposals on 2011s theme: JUSTICE. Applicants are encouraged to consider the theme in broad terms and [...]more -
Culture
Atlas of Transformation to be shown in Zurich
Performance & Lecture: Atlas of Transformation 20 January 2011, 7 pm, Zurich, Switzerland Zbyn?k Baladrán and Vit Havaranek will present in a temporary installation and a performative lecture the English edition of their publication Atlas of Transformation, which was published at the end of 2010 by JRP Ringier. The book deals with the transformation of [...]more -
Culture
Catalyst Award 2010 by tranzit.hu
Catalyst award is a contemporary art award that was founded by tranzit.hu with the aim to foster a greater collective appreciation of initiatives that are inspiring for the local intellectual community. The prize is awarded to individuals, projects and initiatives that directly or indirectly have an impact on the contemporary art scene and [...]more -
Europe
Kakanien – New Republic of the Poets also in 2011!
Next speech by Terézia Mora, Hungary 19 January 2011, 8 pm, Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz Born in the Hungarian city of Sopron, at a stone’s throw from the Austrian border, Terézia Mora grew up with two languages, Hungarian and German. She studied Hungarian Studies and Theatre Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin and trained as a screenwriter [...]more -
Europe
Reporter'11: These are the winners!
Reporter’11: Mara Simperler (23) Mara Simperler is the winner of the competition Reporter’11, with her idea for a story about “Bhutan In Search of Gross National Happiness”. This term was shaped by Bhutan’s former king Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who led his country into modern times. In 2011 Mara and Die Presse foreign affairs editor Thomas Seifert will [...]more -
Social Development
Die Zweite Sparkasse opens new branch office in Upper Austria
New branch office in Linz, Franckstraße 41 The year 2011 will bring another important step to improve the living conditions of persons in dire straits in Austria: Die Zweite Sparkasse will open a branch office in Linz, Upper Austria. The services offered will include a credit account with basic insurance coverage, and are part of a comprehensive support and supervision package offered by welfare institutions such [...]more -
Europe
TABOO: Secrecy and Shame in the Balkans
Out now: The publication of the 2010 Balkan Fellows for Journalistic Excellence Never before have societies appeared so ready to accept phenomena that our parents and grandparents would have kept hidden away as shameful and wrong. Be it sexual orientation, sex before marriage, a child outside of marriage, or deciding not to have children, it [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation
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 -
Culture
Leipziger Buchpreis 2011 awarded to Austrian writer Martin Pollack
Congratulations from ERSTE Foundation! Martin Pollack, Austrian writer, translator and jury member of ERSTE Foundation and IWM’s Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators programme, has been awarded the Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung 2011 (Leipzig book prize on European understanding) for his memorable and influential uvre. The jury emphasised that Pollack’s empathic historical reports, which he builds on the fine line between the genres of [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation
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 -
Culture
Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators 2011/2012: Call for applications open until 11 February 2011
Translators in Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Studies: Be part of the IWM community! The Paul Celan Fellowship Program of IWM and ERSTE Foundation aims to help overcome deficits and asymmetries in the exchange of ideas and reception of scholarly literature which result from the division of Europe in the 20th century. Therefore, the Paul Celan [...]more -
Social Development
ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration: Call extended until 15 December 2010
Because of a very high interest for the Award we have decided to prolong the application period for 2 weeks. The new application deadline is 15 December 2010. For more information and to apply please go to http://erstestiftung.org/integration-award. We are looking forward to receiving your application!more -
Culture
Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2010: Award ceremony and public conference
10 December 2010, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona 4 pm 7:30 pm · Conference: Writing art history. Dialogues in the present continuous The conference takes place on the occasion of the 2010 Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory ceremony. It aims to broaden the geographical sphere of the prize by linking the [...]more -
Europe
The debate about Europe continues: Freedom at stake? Surveillance and the fear of terror in the constitutional state
5 December 2010, 11 am, Burgtheater, Vienna Bedrohte Freiheit? Überwachung und Terrorangst im Rechtsstaat A debate in the series Debating Europe Governments collecting citizens’ biometrical data, businesses tracking customers’ preferences, employers using illegal surveillance practices to detect illoyal staff members, … Where are we heading? Are the fight against terror and economic crime, the benedictions of customer loyalty programmes and [...]more -
Culture, Social Development
Kein Kies zum Kurven Kratzen_RELOADED: Award-winning forum theatre on tour in Austria
2010 is the Year of Fighting Poverty Kein Kies zum Kurven Kratzen_RELOADED on 9 and 29 November 2010 in Vienna Kein Kies zum Kurven Kratzen neuer Armut entgegenwirken (Working against the new poverty) is the name of a legislative forum theatre project that was awarded the SozialMarie 2010, the first prize for innovative social projects in Austria. The project aims [...]more -
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Europe talks to Europe. A Polylogue on Culture and Politics
Democracy live. Media, politics and the tyranny of the opinion poll Public debate, 6 December 2010, 6 pm, Sofia Europe’s current crisis is about more than money. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, in his famous “battle for survival” speech, recently pointed not only to the crisis of the euro as a threat to the [...]more -
Europe
Gallup Balkan Monitor: The 2010 findings are out!
Short summary of the main findings: In all Western Balkan countries, more than 50% of respondents reported difficulties in being able to manage on their households’ income (from 52% in Croatia to 78% in Serbia). Balkan residents were rather pessimistic regarding the future economic development of their countries. Visa-free travel for Montenegrins, Macedonians and Serbs did [...]more -
Europe
Interventions, state building and the future of European foreign policy
The European Stability Initiative and ERSTE Foundation invite to a public debate: 26 November 2010, 3 pm Haus der Musik, Seilerstätte 30, 1010 Vienna The last two decades have been the age of humanitarian intervention, of regime change and hugely ambitious state building efforts. From Bosnia to Kosovo, from Afghanistan to Iraq, nation states and international [...]more -
Europe
Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence 2010: And the winner is…
Majlinda Aliu from Kosovo with her article “Trapped in Black: Balkan War Widows” War widows throughout Europe may have shared a common fate, but their subsequent life experiences from socially conservative Kosovo to liberal England are radically different. Majlinda researched the social conditions and taboos which influence Kosovos widows unwillingness to get re-married. In her article she tackles [...]more -
Social Development
The countdown has started: 15 days left for your application for the ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration 2011!
+ You work for a public or non-profit organisation that engages in social integration? + You have set up a project that has achieved a visible improvement in the lives of the beneficiaries? + Your project activities are in one or several of these countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia? Then you should apply for the [...]more -
Europe, Social Development
European Debate: Democracy and the Media
21 November 2010, 11 am Debate in English and German language Burgtheater, Dr. Karl Lueger-Ring 2, 1010 Vienna Whatever we know about world affairs, we know it through the media. Be it 9/11, climate change or the financial crisis we have watched it on TV, heard about it on the radio or read about it in the [...]more -
Social Development
"Overknit Your Pension" wins The Social Business Idea Contest 2010
Overknit Your Pension is the name of Barbora Kuckova and Olga Guttenova’s idea for a social business that aims at fighting poverty and social exclusion of elderly women. It was selected as the overall winner of The Social Business Idea Contest 2010. The business idea is to offer design and knitting technique workshops to elderly women so that they can produce knitwearsweaters, [...]more -
Culture
Gender Check: A Reader – Art and Theory in Eastern Europe. Book Launch, Talk, Symposium
Book Launch & Talk: Gender Check: A Reader Art and Theory in Eastern Europe Friday, 19 November 2010, 7 pm MUMOK, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Editor’s statement: Bojana Peji? Comments and discussion: Angela Dimitrakaki, Johanna Schaffer This anthology is the first representative collection of essays investigating gender issues in social, cultural, and artistic contexts in [...]more -
Europe
Reporter'11: Who are the journalists of tomorrow?
For the 4th time this year and in cooperation with ERSTE Foundation, the Austrian daily Die Presse is looking for talented young reporters in the frame of the contests Reporter’11 and Reporter’11-Ost. The winner of Reporter’11 will go on a 2-week trip together with Die Presse foreign affairs editor Thomas Seifert to report from interesting locations all over the world. [...]more -
Social Development
We did it! The Tour d'Award is over
1521 kilometers, 15 days filled with sweat and tears, but also with great experiences of perseverence, accomplishment and belonging this is the balance of the ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration Tour d’Award 2010. On 8 October, four members of the ERSTE Foundation’s Social Development teamDino, Ivan, Dejan and Davorset out on a journey through six Southeastern European countries to promote the [...]more -
General Funding
Central European Forum in Bratislava
International conference, open to the public 5-6 November 2010 The Central European Forum is a platform for high-profile debates on current issues regarding Central and Eastern Europe. At its start in 2009, under the patronage of the former president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, the Central European Forum commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. [...]more -
Europe
Adrian Mogos again rewarded for outstanding journalism
On 19 October, the jury of the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism, London, announced that they “selected two outstanding candidates whose fearlessness and journalistic excellence represent the overall mission of the Kurt Schork Awards for International Journalism”. Adrian Mogos, a graduate of ERSTE Foundation’s Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, was rewarded with the prize in the category Local [...]more -
Culture
Good Luck! Migration Today. Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb, Istanbul
Initiative Minderheiten, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, zeitschrift juridicum and ERSTE Foundation cordially invite you to the following events: Exhibition: Living Across. Spaces of Migration Opening: 4 November 2010, 7 pm Duration of the exhibition: 5 November – 5 December 2010 Place: xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 2nd [...]more -
Culture
Book presentation: The Renaming Machine
23 October 2010, 5 pm Open Space, Vienna This reader comprises various theoretical texts, art works and research projects, commissioned comprehensive cross-disciplinary research files, and a thesaurus of news and curiosities dealing with the complex historical, socio-political, cultural and visual implications of the renaming phenomenon. The concept renaming machine was coined to underscore the arbitrary and [...]more -
Europe
The (im)potence of the image. Differing images of the new Europe seen through the eyes of photographer Erich Lessing and contemporary artists
Exhibition: 1 November 2010 – 31 January 2011 Reception: 10 November 2010, 6:30 pm BELvue museum, Brussels Free admission Artists: Erich Lessing (A), Anna Artaker (A), Anna Fabricius (H), IRWIN (SLO), El?bieta Jab?o?ska (PL), ejla Kameri? (BiH), Ivana Keser (HR), Martin Kollár (SK), Boris Missirkov & Georgi Bogdanov (BG), Tanja Ostoji? (SRB), Erzen Shkololli (KOS), [...]more -
Social Development
Grande Finale of the Social Business Tour!
28 and 29 October 2010, Bucharest 30 October 2010, Belgrade Social exclusion, destitution, poverty. Not only people in the developing world and emerging countries have these problems. They are also increasingly prevalent among us in Central and Eastern Europe. 17% of Europeans dont have the means to meet their most basic needs, according to [...]more -
Europe
Kakanien – New Republic of the Poets. Next speech: J
27 October 2010, 8 pm Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna In Czech language with German surtitles The new addition to the young republic of Kakania will be the speech given by Jáchym Topol, who was a member of Pragues underground literary and music movement in the late 1970s and 1980s. He wrote lyrics for the rock band [...]more -
General Funding
Extravagant bodies: Extravagant minds 2010
International festival of mental health 20-24 October 2010, Pogon Jedinstvo i Klub Mo?vara, Zagreb Extravagant bodies is an interdisciplinary festival that started in 2007 and deals with the politics of normality. It is based on the fact that what is considered normal (and what is not) is ideologically determined and deeply rooted in the structures of society. [...]more -
Social Development
The first SOMARO market opens in Bucharest
20 October 2010 Piata Matache, 5 Luncani Street, Sector 1, Bucharest Katharina Turnauer Privatstiftung opens the first Romanian social market in Bucharest, in cooperation with ERSTE Foundation and Social Attaché Barbara-Wiebke Schöfnagel from the Austrian Embassy in Bucharest. Bucharest has almost 2 million residents and is by far the most heavily populated city in Romania. [...]more -
Social Development
3rd Southeast Austrian Hospice and Palliative Care Day
16 October 2010, Oberwart Turning point. Truthful with myself The third joint hospice and palliative care day of the Southeast Austrian provinces of Burgenland, Styria and Carinthia is held at the occasion of the World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, which took place under the motto Sharing the Care on 9 October. The invitation to join goes out to everybody [...]more -
Culture
Not Where from but Where to…
Exhibition, 20 October – 7 November 2010, Vienna Opening: 19 October, 7 pm Artistic contributions: Nika Autor: Postcards, experimental film, PAL DVD, 2010. Report on the state of the asylum policy in the Republic of Slovenia from January 2008 to August 2009, documentary film, PAL DVD, 2010 Nemanja Cvijanovi?: Mount Triglav on The Adriatic Sea, series of 3 [...]more -
Social Development
We are on the road!
Dino, member of the ERSTE Foundation Team and Ivan, volunteer activist from Serbia set off this morning at 5 am from Vienna on their bicycles on a 1,600 km roundtrip, travelling for 15 days and promoting the ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration 2011 on 10 information sessions in 10 different cities of the region: Bratislava, Pecs, [...]more -
Social Development
The Social Business Tour 2010
14 October 2010, Prague If you are keen on businesses that help create a better world then we would like to invite you to join The Social Business Tour 2010 and take part in the Social Business Days on 14 October in Prague! After the successful kick off in Vienna and Bratislava in May and [...]more -
Europe
aces kicks off in Senec
27 September to 1 October 2010, Senec, Slovak Republic On Monday, 27 September 2010, teachers and students from Central and South Eastern Europe will get together in Senec to open the programme of this years generation. The aces kick off will bring together 103 students and 103 teachers from all aces projects 2010/2011 in order to get [...]more -
General Funding
Europe talks to Europe. A Polylogue on Culture and Politics
Multiculturalism at its limits? Managing diversity in the new Europe 30 September, 6 pm, Bratislava Cultural diversity is back at the top of the European political agenda. Attitudes towards immigration typically associated with the nationalist Right have become political mainstream. Minorities are turned into problems as migration makes cultural diversity ever more visible and national [...]more -
General Funding
Chisinau – Art, Research in the Public Sphere
Conference (open for the public): 22 24 September 2010, 10 am - 5 pm The Bureau of Interethnic Relations, Str. A. Mateevici 109/1, Chisinau, Moldova Final Presentation: 21 September 15 October 2010 Various locations around the city of Chisinau Chisinau - Art, Research in the Public Sphere is a cross-disciplinary platform with the aim to [...]more -
Europe
Programme for Policy Researchers from the Western Balkans Region – Open Call for Applications!
The Fellowship Programme for Policy Researchers from the Western Balkans Region aims to contribute to capacity building and professional development of policy researchers from the region of the Western Balkans (WB). Through paid visits to other policy research institutions and think tanks in the European Union (EU) and WB countries the researchers have the opportunity to [...]more -
Culture, Europe
Balkanology comes to Bucharest
15 October – 15 November 2010 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest Curator: Kai Vöckler An exhibition in the frame of Bucharest Architecture Biennale 2010 Balkanology opens a new field of architectural discourse in Romania the little-known architecture of the post-Socialist period and the result of unregulated, uncontrolled urban planning in the neighbouring countries [...]more -
Culture
tranzit goes Manifesta 8
9 October 2010 - 9 January 2011 Preview days: 7 and 8 October 2010 Official opening: 9 October 2010 Symposium: 10 October 2010 Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, will take place in the Region of Murcia (Spain) and the tranzit collective is one of the curatorial teams responsible for the artistic content. tranzit.org is a [...]more -
Culture
International Symposium on Curatorial Practice
1-2 October 2010, Ljubljana Exhibition as Artistic Medium, Curator of Contemporary Art as the Artist. The Changing Statuses of the Exhibition and the Curator in the Field of Contemporary Art. We are yet to find the answer as to whether and how is an exhibition a form of art and the curator an artist, however, [...]more -
Culture
The Renaming Machine
Book presentation: 23 September 2010, 6:30 pm at Jakopi? Gallery, Ljubljana Speakers: Suzana Milevska, Aldo Milohni?, Lana Zdravkovi?, Tadej Poga?ar and on 23 October 2010, 5 pm at Open Space, Vienna The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute from Ljubljana, Slovenia, announces the launch of the source book The Renaming Machine – The Book, 2010, edited by Suzana Milevska, curator and visual [...]more -
Culture
RE-DESIGNING THE EAST. Political Design in Asia and Europe
Exhibiton: 25 September 2010 – 9 January 2011 Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart Opening: 24 September 2010, 7 pm The exhibition Re-Designing the East: Political Design in Asia and Europe highlights critical and resistive design practices in (Eastern) Europe and (South/Eastern) Asia from the nineteen-eighties through the present. Of particular focus is the role of both design [...]more -
Culture
Monument to Transformation goes Paris
Exhibition: The Watchmen, the Liars, the Dreamers 16 September – 14 November 2010, Le Plateau Gallery, Paris Opening: Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 6-9 pm The Watchmen, the Liars, the Dreamers is the third part of the Concrete Erudition programme devised by curator Guillaume Désanges, who has been invited to come up with a cycle of [...]more -
General Funding
Conference: Memorials and museums in National Socialist concentration camps
9 – 10 September 2010, Vienna The conference is held at the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Its main goal is to evaluate the current situation of the holocaust memorials in Polish and Austrian National Socialist concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Majdanek, Stutthof and Mauthausen, and to give an overview [...]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 -
Social Development
ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration 2011: Open call for submissions!
Call open from 1 September until 30 November 2010 12 participating countries 100 projects will be shortlisted 30 winners will be selected ERSTE Foundation calls on non-profit organisations, public administrations, civil-society and private initiatives, religious communities and media representatives to apply for the ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration 2011. 30 innovative and efficient social integration [...]more -
General Funding
GOGOLFEST 2010 International Festival of Contemporary Art
4 – 12 September 2010 Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kiev GogolFEST is a festival of contemporary art that takes place every year in Kiev, Ukraine. Established in 2007, the festival has gained international acknowledgement for its eclectic programme and the values it represents. The name of the festival reminds of the writer Nikolai Gogol, whose conception [...]more -
General Funding
MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ International Poetry Festival
3 - 5 September 2010 Chernivtsi, Ukraine The major theme of the festival is contemporary German and Ukrainian poetry. The participants are well-known poets from Ukraine, Austria, Germany and Switzerland who will present poetry and video poetry. The programme of MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ consists of varying cultural and artistic events. During the day guests will be able to [...]more -
Europe
Adrian Mogos from Romania wins CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2010
We are very happy to announce that Adrian Mogos, a graduate of ERSTE Foundation’s 2009 Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, won this prize. A total of 24 nominations from 11 member states of the Central European Initiative (CEI) were examined. The main criteria taken into account by the jury were the personal risks taken while performing the duty, the quality [...]more -
Social Development
Motovun Film Festival 12
26 30 July 2010 Motovun Film Festival is a five-day film marathon in which film screenings alternate from 10 a.m. until 4 a.m., with evening outdoor screenings and daily screenings in theatres. Festival program consists of around 70 titles from all over the world, from documentaries to feature films, from shorts to long forms, [...]more -
General Funding
art space in a grey zone. 15 x architecture for tranzit
Exhibition, 3 July – 1 August 2010 Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava 3 July 2010: Exhibition Opening 2 pm, Slovak National Gallery: Laco Teren (tranzit Bratislava), Boris Marte (ERSTE Foundation), András Pálffy (TU Vienna) 4 pm, Tranzit Dielne Workshops & Tranzit Ateliéry Studios: Food, Drinks and Music The exhibition art space in a grey zone documents [...]more -
Europe
Boris Buden opens Balkan Case Challenge 2010!
6 July 2010, 07:30 pm Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna The Balkan Case Challenge (BCC) is an annual international case study competition and recruitment event with the focus on South Eastern Europe. Different projects are designed to strengthen the region by developing joint perspectives and forging links between higher education and economy. This year’s Opening [...]more -
Europe
Milena Jesenská fellows 2010-2011
We are very happy to announce the winners of the Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists 2010/2011: Irina Nedeva will stay in Vienna from October to December 2010, working on “Translating the West” The Case of Tzvetan Stoyanov and the Bulgarian Intellectual Dilemmas. Vladimir Arsenijevic will work on Between a Rock and a Hard Place The Ever-Changing Face [...]more -
Social Development
The Social Business Tour 2010
7 July 2010 Budapest If you are keen on businesses that help create a better world then we would like to invite you to join The Social Business Tour 2010 and take part in the Social Business Days on 7 July in Budapest! After the successful kick off in Vienna and Bratislava in May the [...]more -
Social Development
Intercultural Youth Meeting in Serbia
4-10 July 2010 Sokobanja, Serbia Children and childrens rights is the topic of the intercultural youth meeting taking place in Sokobanja from 4 to 10 July. Youngsters from Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic and Ukraine will have the opportunity to practice democracy in a childrens parliament, discuss and learn about topics [...]more -
Culture
Sketches of Migration. Postcolonial Enmeshments, Antiracist Construction Work
A collective (book) project on migration, gender and politics 17 June 2010, 6:30 pm: Project/book presentation & discussion Secession, Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Vienna with Agnes Achola, Carla Bobadilla, Petja Dimitrova, Nilbar Güre?, Stefania Del Sordo, Ljubomir Brati?, Johanna Schaffer, Vlatka Frketi? (moderation) This publication embodies both the results of a collective process and its realization as [...]more -
Culture
Salto Mortale
Event on 17 June 2010, 6 pm MuseumsQuartier, Vienna In the frame of the Artist-in-Residence programme at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, ERSTE Foundation’s project partner tranzit regularly sends artists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary to Vienna. Currently, Anabela igová from Slovakia lives and works at MuseumsQuartier. Her video documentary examines “the legacy of silence” and the dilemma of today’s [...]more -
Europe
Grandma's apples and the ecological footprint
Buy from the region and help save the environment! Cakovec Highschool, Croatia, wins international school competition A school class from the highschool in Cakovec, Croatia, won the competition “Taking action together for Europe’s environment” in the frame of WWF and ERSTE Foundation’s initiative European Schools for a Living Planet. With their project “Grandma’s Apples” the [...]more -
General Funding
KROKODIL Literary Festival
10-12 June 2010 Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade KROKODIL is a three day regional literary festival and panel discussion in which around 15 relevant authors from ex-Yugoslav countries take part. This year, the main topic of the festival is TRAGEDY AND TRANSITION 1990-2010. 20 years have passed since the beginning of wars in former Yugoslavia [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation
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 -
Culture
Gender Check's finale in Warsaw
Panel discussions: Friday, 11 June 2010, 12 noon, 6 pm Last day of the exhibition: Sunday, 13 June 2010 The exhibition Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe at Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw will end on Sunday, 13 June 2010. To mark the occasion, panel discussions with curator Bojana [...]more -
Europe
Kakanien. New Republic of the Poets: Speech of Doron Rabinovici
27 May 2010, 8 pm New venue: Kasino, Schwarzenbergplatz 1 After Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, it is finally Austrias turn to be heard in the New Republic of the Poets. Doron Rabinovici is an Israeli-Austrian historian and writer. He has lived in Vienna since 1964. Doron Rabinovici studied History, Ethnology, Medicine [...]more -
Culture
Encounters in Relational Geography – Dust, Ashes, Residua
Exhibition: 2 June 2 July 2010 Opening: 1 June 2010, 7 pm, Vienna Artists: Ranko Bon, Dumitru Budrala, Marina Grzini? und Aina mid, Isa Rosenberger, Sao Sedla?ek, Vlad Nanc?, Zbyn?k Baladrán Curator: Richard Appignanesi The awkward question: Is Eastern Europe really accounted as European added value? Or is our currently extended Europe fatally schizothymic? Do [...]more -
General Funding
Fast Forward Film Festival
Opening: 28 May 2010 Kulturno informativni centar (KIC) Budo Tomovi?, Podgorica, Montenegro Fast Forward is the first human rights film festival in Montenegro, using the best practices in the region, as a new and innovative approach in dealing with this issue within the Montenegrin environment. The film programme will be followed by series of topic-oriented panels [...]more -
General Funding
NEW FRONTIERS. Experimental Tendencies in Architecture
Exhibition: 31 May 25 June 2010, Vienna The cities of Vienna and Bratislava, at a mere distance of 66 km, play an important role as a dynamic transnational region; they are closely related not only from a geographical but also an historical and economic point of view. When it comes to shaping the future of the two countries, urban [...]more -
General Funding
Invisible Gipsy
Play, 23 May 2010, Prague The play Invisible Gipsy portrays a Roma family and their clash with the value system of the country they are living in. The story of Invisible Gipsy fits into the framework of the questionable existence of the Roma and their (in)visibility. It deals with the troubles of a Roma family, [...]more -
Culture
Art Always Has Its Consequences
Final exhibition: 8 May – 2 June 2010 Opening: Saturday, 8 May, 12 pm The exhibition Art Always Has Its Consequences opens on 8 May, on the Day of the Liberation of Zagreb in 1945. Today, at a time of epoch-making realignment in relation to the Second World War and the tendency of equating Nazism [...]more -
General Funding
Subversive Film Festival
1-24 May 2010 Europa, Tukanac, Gri? and SC cinemas & building of the former Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia 3-7 May 2010 International conference: The collapse of neoliberalism and the idea of socialism today Kino Europa, Zagreb, Croatia The 3rd Subversive Film Festival is no ordinary, competition film festival. It is a joint project [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation
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 -
Culture
Eclipsed Voices
Exhibition 10 March – 2 April 2010, 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. The works [...]more -
Culture
Monument to Transformation in Spain and Croatia
The exhibition presents the outcome of more than two years of researching “social transformation”. It is conceived as an imaginative and analytical space that – with a certain distance – enables the visitor to see and reflect the processes of change that started by the fall of the Iron Curtain and have to an extent [...]more -
Europe
aces: Call for project proposals open until 30 April 2010!
Topic: “Create your solutions! Dealing with conflicts in schools and our surroundings” Where people live or work together conflicts arise on a daily basis. Sometimes they have positive effects: e.g. when they contribute to clarifying issues. The challenge, however, is to deal with these conflicts in a constructive and non-violent manner. Therefore, and in view [...]more -
Culture
Press conference and launch: Online catalogue of Romanian Books in Print INFOCARTE
30 March 2010, 6 pm, Bucharest The Books in Print catalogue provides up-to-date information about books that have been published in Romania with ISBN and are available on the market. The Books in Print project was initiated by the Romanian Publishers’ Association. It benefits from the expertise of the Fund for Central and East European Books Projects (CEEBP) and the cooperation [...]more -
Europe
Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists 2010/2011
Call for Applications open until 9 April 2010! The Milena Jesenská Fellowship program offers European journalists working in print, broadcast and electronic media time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a European topic of their choice. The call for applications is directed towards cultural journalists, with the term “cultural” [...]more -
General Funding
Jazz Appreciation Month
Music Festival 1-10 April 2010, Montenegro The program comprises a series of elements: educational workshops gathering students from the Cetinje Music Academy and KUG Graz’ Jazz Department concerts by prominent jazz musicians such as Stjepko Gut, Mihailo Blam and others films and documentaries with jazz as their main topic, such as “Crossroads”, “Stormy Monday”, etc. exhibitions a series of jazz sessions Opening: 1 [...]more -
General Funding
Europe talks to Europe. A polylogue on culture and politics
31 March 2010, 6 pm: “Economy and ethics in crisis. A new-old east-west divide?” Debate in English language What are the ethical and political implications of a globalized economy in general, and of western companies’ expansion in eastern Europe in particular? Does the financial crisis mark the end of neoliberal politics? What does the European [...]more -
Europe
Fellowship Programme for Policy Researchers from the Western Balkans Region
Call for Applications open until 30 March 2010 The programme is looking for up to 10 talented and dedicated young researchers who must be residents of a Western Balkans country. The fellowship programme aims at contributing to the further capacity building and the professional development of policy researchers from the Western Balkans region. Through paid visits [...]more -
ERSTE Foundation
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 -
Europe
Debating Europe: The Opportunities and Dangers of Immigration
21 March 2010, 11 am Burgtheater, Vienna Panel discussion in English language After having been fled by millions of emigrants for centuries, Europe has turned into a highly desired destination for immigrants in recent decades–some 700,000 of them choose one of the EU’s member states as their new home every year. Yet Europe does not conceive itself as an [...]more -
Culture
Gender Check in Warsaw!
20 March – 13 June 2010 Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw After the very successful show at Vienna’s Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK), the exhibition Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe has travelled to the Polish capital Warsaw, where it has been re-opened at Zacheta National Gallery of Art [...]more -
Europe
Kakanien – New Republic of the Poets. Writers hold speeches in Akademietheater
25 March 2010: Dubravka Ugrešić, Croatia Akademietheater, Vienna In Croatian language with German surtitles Followed by a discussion in English language Kakania has a new visitor from Croatia. When the war broke out in former Yugoslavia in 1991, the Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešić adopted a decidedly anti-nationalist stance. Her public critique of both Serbs and [...]more -
Culture
ERSTE Foundation becomes main partner of tranzit
tranzit is a network of independent non-profit civic associations in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Slovak Republic.more -
Culture, Europe
More "Balkanology"! Exhibition prolongued until 1 February 2010
Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna The exhibition “Balkanology. New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in Southeast Europe” has been so successful that Vienna’s Architekturzentrum (Az W) has prolongued it until Monday, 1 February 2010. If you haven’t seen it yet, take this opportunity to explore the Balkans’ new urban architecture! Visitors have commented: “Well worth seeing, interesting”, 18 Dec 2009 “Extraordinarily well-made illustration of life [...]more -
Europe
BALKAN EXPRESS to stop by in Duisburg, Germany
Film presentation: 28 January 2010, 4 pm The episode "Macedonia – Macedonian Wedding / Mazedonien – Der Krieg, der nicht stattfand" of the award-winning ten-part documentary is going to be presented at the University of Duisburg-Essen on 26 January. Jean Monnet Chair Prof. Dr. Heinz Jürgen Axt Universität Duisburg-Essen, Raum LK 052 Lotharstraße 63, 47057 Duisburg, [...]more