About the KomenskýFond
The KomenskýFond is an initiative of the ERSTE Foundation and Caritas. It was created to support people which find themselves in difficult social and economic circumstances in seizing educational opportunities and to develop the awareness that education is the most effective way to escape poverty.
ERSTE Foundation works to promote the development of an inclusive and participatory society in Europe where people are free and ready to take on responsibilities and to use them for the common good. Its social engagement is based on the belief that human coexistence in modern societies is facing enormous challenges, and that, for Europe to succeed, we must effectively utilise our intellectual, economic, cultural and social capital to foster social integration in Europe.
Caritas Austria, supports people in need on a national and international level in various ways and also supports education projects, for long-term unemployment for example, respectively for women in emergency situations in Austria but also for disadvantaged youths in the poorest European countries or street children in Ethiopia, Congo and Egypt.
