Intercultural Achievement Award 2026 (up to EUR 6,000) – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2026

Applications are open for the Intercultural Achievement Award 2026. With the Intercultural Achievement Award 2026, the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs honors excellent tasks that strengthen intercultural and interreligious dialogue in Austria and past.

Your challenge should cowl at the very least one of many following themes:

• Art/Culture
• Youth
• Human Rights
• Global Citizenship Education
• Integration
• Gender Equality

Award

The Intercultural Achievement Award (IAA) is awarded within the following classes:

• Sustainability: EUR 6,000
  • The challenge affords options within the cross-reducing space of setting/ecology and intercultural/interreligious challenges.
  • The establishment will need to have been lively for at the very least 2 years.
  • The challenge should be operational and deliberate for a length of at the very least 1 yr, guaranteeing feasibility and measurable influence.
  • The challenge ought to goal for a length of two years, ideally 5 years.
• Recent Events: EUR 6,000
  • The challenge should handle at the very least one of many following areas: arts/tradition, youth, human rights, international citizenship training, integration, gender equality.
  • The challenge will need to have been applied between 2023 and 2025 and can be a profitable single motion in intercultural/interreligious dialogue. This class targets tasks responding to present occasions or developments and contributing to intercultural understanding, even on a case-by-case foundation.
• Technology: EUR 6,000
  • The challenge should make use of progressive technical options that promote intercultural and/or interreligious dialogue.
  • The challenge should be operational and deliberate for a length of at the very least 1 yr, guaranteeing feasibility and measurable influence.
• Innovation: EUR 6,000
  • The challenge should distinguish itself by an progressive methodological or artistic strategy to dialogue amongst cultures or religions.
  • The challenge should be operational and deliberate for a length of at the very least 1 yr, guaranteeing feasibility and measurable influence.
• Media: EUR 6,000
  • Contributions will need to have been printed after 1 January 2022 in non-state conventional media (print, TV, radio) in addition to on-line media (particularly social media).
  • The challenge has verifiably had a constructive influence on the general public and has considerably influenced intercultural and/or interreligious dialogue.
  • Complete journalistic media stories or already operational dialogue platforms that promote understanding and peaceable coexistence for at the very least one yr could also be submitted.
• Religions Freedom: EUR 6,000
  • The challenge should positively promote and convey the significance of freedom of faith and peaceable coexistence of religions in public areas inside the context of intercultural and interreligious dialogue.
  • The contribution should verifiably have broad influence on interreligious dialogue.
  • The challenge should promote peaceable coexistence of the religions.

Eligibility

• The fundamental focus of your challenge is intercultural and interreligious dialogue.
• For classes 1–5:
  • Projects led and applied by non-revenue organizations (together with charitable NGOs, associations, foundations, social training establishments, non secular organizations) and/or non-public-sector organizations.
  • Government, scientific/analysis, and worldwide establishments are excluded.
  • The challenge should handle at the very least one of many following areas: arts/tradition, youth, human rights, international citizenship training, integration, gender equality.

Application

An in depth application type with particular questions has been developed and is available here. Applications in the principle classes should be structured and clearly comprehensible in English or German. They should be convincing based mostly on the challenge content material. Answering all questions is a prerequisite for additional consideration.

Applications must be despatched by e mail to [email protected].

For extra data, go to Intercultural Achievement Award.