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 mission should cowl no less than 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 mission presents options within the cross-chopping space of atmosphere/ecology and intercultural/interreligious challenges.
  • The establishment will need to have been lively for no less than 2 years.
  • The mission have to be operational and deliberate for a period of no less than 1 yr, guaranteeing feasibility and measurable influence.
  • The mission ought to intention for a period of two years, ideally 5 years.
• Recent Events: EUR 6,000
  • The mission should handle no less than one of many following areas: arts/tradition, youth, human rights, international citizenship training, integration, gender equality.
  • The mission will need to have been applied between 2023 and 2025 and may also 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 mission should make use of revolutionary technical options that promote intercultural and/or interreligious dialogue.
  • The mission have to be operational and deliberate for a period of no less than 1 yr, guaranteeing feasibility and measurable influence.
• Innovation: EUR 6,000
  • The mission should distinguish itself by an revolutionary methodological or inventive strategy to dialogue amongst cultures or religions.
  • The mission have to be operational and deliberate for a period of no less than 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 mission has verifiably had a constructive influence on the general public and has considerably influenced intercultural and/or interreligious dialogue.
  • Complete journalistic media experiences or already operational dialogue platforms that promote understanding and peaceable coexistence for no less than one yr could also be submitted.
• Religions Freedom: EUR 6,000
  • The mission should positively promote and convey the significance of freedom of faith and peaceable coexistence of religions in public areas throughout the context of intercultural and interreligious dialogue.
  • The contribution should verifiably have broad influence on interreligious dialogue.
  • The mission should promote peaceable coexistence of the religions.

Eligibility

• The most important focus of your mission 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, spiritual organizations) and/or non-public-sector organizations.
  • Government, scientific/analysis, and worldwide establishments are excluded.
  • The mission should handle no less than 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 primary classes have to be structured and clearly comprehensible in English or German. They have to be convincing primarily based on the mission content material. Answering all questions is a prerequisite for additional consideration.

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

For extra info, go to Intercultural Achievement Award.