Award 2009
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This year’s 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 2008 to EUR 295,000 and the list of participating countries has been extended to include 8 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosova, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.
The call for applications was launched 1 September 2008.
Deadline for submitting applications was 14 November 2008 and later extended until 1 December 2008.