German engagement award
The German Engagement Prize is a nationwide award and the umbrella prize for voluntary engagement, which is awarded every year on the International Day of Volunteering on December 5th in Berlin. It is endowed with a total of 35,000 euros.
competition
All organizers of engagement and citizen awards in Germany receive an invitation to send their first-placed winners into the race for the German Engagement Award. A personal application is not possible.
Categories
The German Engagement Prize is awarded in five categories, each endowed with 5,000 euros: "Preserving life", "Creating opportunities", "Connecting generations", "Overcoming borders" and "Strengthening democracy". The population decides on the audience award, endowed with 10,000 euros, in a public online voting.
Databases price landscape and volunteer search
The price landscape database can be found on the website of the German Engagement Prize , which contains information on more than 700 regional and national prizes for voluntary engagement. In the volunteer search , excellent volunteering initiatives are portrayed that have been nominated for the German Engagement Prize and provide an overview of best practice examples of volunteering.
Initiator and sponsor
The initiator of the German Engagement Prize is the Alliance for Charitable Benefit, an association of large umbrella associations and independent third-sector organizations as well as experts and scientists. The German Engagement Prize project is part of the Federal Association of German Foundations . The sponsors of the German Engagement Prize are the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth , the German TV Lottery and the Deutsche Bahn Foundation .
history
The German Engagement Prize was first awarded in 2009 as part of the “Giving gives.” Campaign with the aim of strengthening the culture of recognition for voluntary engagement in Germany. Dedicated people, organizations and companies as well as communities promoting engagement could be suggested for the award by other people or organizations.
From 2010 to 2014 the prize was awarded in the categories “Politics & Administration”, “Economy”, “Non-Profit Third Sector”, “Individual” “Audience Award” and an annually changing focus category.
With a further development of the award from 2015 to become the umbrella award for voluntary engagement, the German Engagement Award will focus on the existing variety of awards for voluntary engagement. Through the cooperation with the organizers of the numerous engagement and citizen prizes, the culture of recognition for voluntary engagement is to be strengthened all year round.
Previous winners
2009
Contributors to the award ceremony include Alfred Biolek , Eckart von Hirschhausen , Dietmar Meister, Ronny Ziesmer , Walter Sittler
- Category Third Sector: Green Ladies and Gentlemen of Evangelical Hospital Aid eV (EKH)
- Category Politics & Administration: Citizenship of Nürtingen
- Individual category : Günter Bechtold for his football project builds bridges
- Category social enterprises (instead of Category economy ): Katja Urbatsch for their initiative ArbeiterKind.de
- Audience award category : social heroes
2010
Contributors to the award ceremony include Kristina Schröder , Dunja Hayali , Dietmar Meister Stefan Klein , Dirk Roßmann , Sara Nuru , Bas Böttcher
- Third sector category : Federal Association of People in Insolvency and New Opportunities eV (BV Inso)
- Politics & Administration category : City of Arnsberg
- Category individual: Kazim Erdogan , initiator of the initiative "Aufbruch Neukölln eV"
- Economy category : the newspaper BZ with its project "Berliner Helden"
- Category youth engagement: Students help life
- Category Audience Award: Ali Dogan , Association of Alevi Young People in Germany (BDAJ)
2011
Participants in the award ceremony include Kristina Schröder , Stefan Rupp, Cosma Shiva Hagen , Bilkay Öney , Sarah Wiener , Johannes Stockmeier, Daniela Ziegler , the 17 hippies
- Politics & Administration category : City of Augsburg - Office for Civic Engagement with the Alliance for Augsburg
- Third sector category : Initiative work by management / PATENT MODEL
- Individual category : Heinz Frey - DORV-Zentrum GmbH
- Economy category : Robert Bosch GmbH - Turkish Forum at Bosch
- Category engagement of the elderly: Bundesverband Seniorpartner in School e. V.
- Audience award category : parliamentwatch.de
2012
Participants in the award ceremony include Ulrich Khuon , Anja Heyde , Heribert Prantl , Lutz Stroppe , Tessa Mittelstaedt , Michael Hüther , Nina Eichinger , David Pereira, Lasse Samström
- Politics & Administration category : City of Pirmasens - Improvement of the local educational landscape
- Category individual: Jürgen Ludwig - involvement in the interest group Stadtökologie Arnstadt eV
- Economy category : RWE - COMPANiUS initiative
- Third sector category : KICKFAIR eV
- Generali special price for the backbone : Golzheim interest group active
- On-site engagement category : ZiP - Together in Parchim
- Audience award category : Storch Heinar
2013
Participants in the award ceremony and a. Kristina Schröder , Mitri Sirin , Bernhard Wolff , Miriam Pielhau , Georgette Dee , Christoph Schüchner, Sommer Ulrickson , Marie-Lou Sellem , Hildigund Neubert , Hans Fleisch, Gregor Wollny, Andreas Hoppe
- Category Politics & Administration : Municipality of Riegel - Initiative BEreit
- Individual category : Rosi Gollmann - founder of Andheri-Aid Bonn
- Economy category : Alfred Kiess GmbH
- Third sector category : German Hiking Association
- Special prices for civic engagement during the flood disaster: Deggendorf is cleaning up, the Maxi women's association and the Grimma multi-generation house
- Category Working together - building bridges with cooperation : German Alliance against Depression
- Audience Award Category : Engineers Without Borders
2014
Participants in the award ceremony and a. Manuela Schwesig , Miriam Pielhau , Die Razzzones, Jutta Allmendinger , Bodecker & Neander, Sophie Rosentreter , Henning Scherf , Claus Stötter , Cloozy , Susanne Daubner , Kristina Läsker
- Politics & Administration category : State Capital Hanover - Reading mentoring project
- Individual category : Helga Rohra , dementia activist
- Economy category : JÄGER DIREKT, Jäger Fischer GmbH & Co KG
- Third sector category : Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk e. V. - "Education for democracy in Saxon schools through discussions with contemporary witnesses with survivors of the Nazi regime"
- Priority category 2014 Together of the generations : Generationsbrücke Deutschland
- Audience Award category : Der Kleine Nazareno e. V., aid project for street children in Brazil
2015
Participants in the award ceremony and a. Manuela Schwesig , Gabi Bauer , Teresa Enke, Dieter Hallervorden , Brigitte Mohn , Gesine Schwan , Jonas Pawelski, Sebastian Turner , Gabor Vosteen, ALFONS Emmanuel Peterfalvi , Jakob Vonau, Sarah Perl, Saskia von Winterfeld
- Creating opportunities category : non-profit Perspektiva GmbH
- Overcoming boundaries category : Grand méchant loup - Bad Wolf
- Preserving life category : Working group Life with the Youth-Life-Line online youth counseling project
- Strengthening democracy category : Human Rights Center Cottbus e. V.
- Linking generations category : Integrative Montessori school on Balanstrasse with the WORKSHOP OF GENERATIONS project
- Audience Award: Children and Youth Circus Blamage e. V.
- Special price make welcome culture : DAMF -Deutschkurse asylum migration flight
2016
Participants in the award ceremony and a. Manuela Schwesig , Natalia Wörner , Dr. Gerhard Timm, Regina Halmich , Matthias Schulz , Jutta Speidel , Rita Süssmuth , Masud Akbarzadeh , Andreas Wessels, Halves Project, Annett Renneberg, Spacegirls and Jiří Bubeníček .
- Creating opportunities category : SchlaU-Schule , sponsoring group for young refugees e. V.
- Overcoming Boundaries Category : "Future Laboratory" - An initiative of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
- Saving life category : dark figure e. V.
- Strengthening democracy category : Jugend hackt , Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e. V. and mediale pfade.org - Association for media education
- Category Connecting Generations : Dorpschaft Witzin e. V.
- Audience Award: Individual Marisa Schroth for Govinda e. V.
2017
Participants in the award ceremony and a. Katarina Barley , Andrea Timmesfeld, Christian Kipper, Gerhard Timm, Cacau , Marie-Luise Marjan , Harald Martenstein , Richy Müller , Susanne Pfab, The Lower Saxon Bach Consortium, Nikolay Matev, Wasili Urbach, Martin Reinl , Georgette Dee and Terry Truck
- Creating opportunities category : ElKiS - Parent-Kita-Sprachmittler_innen, a project of the Friedenskreis Halle e. V.
- Overcoming Boundaries Category : Date Offenders
- Saving life category : Bürgerwerke eG
- Strengthening democracy category : Alliance against right-wing extremism in the Nuremberg metropolitan region
- Linking generations category : Leinefischer im Netz, a project by Jugendhilfe Göttingen e. V.
- Audience award: Your star child
2018
Participants in the award ceremony and a. Franziska Giffey , Daniel Kroll, Richard Lutz , Pinar Atalay , Helga Inden-Heinrich , Oliver Mommsen , Saskia von Winterfeld, Claudia Kemfert , Esther Ofarim , Renske Endel , Mark Chaet, The Razzzones, The Coleopters
- Creating opportunities category : “180 degree turn” by the youth education and social work Goethe e. V.
- Overcoming boundaries category : Federal Association of Disabled Foster Children V.
- Saving life category : Clean River Project e. V.
- Strengthening democracy category : “We can do it!” Project at the “Rudolf Tarnow” regional school in Boizenburg
- Category Connecting Generations : Silver Paws - For seniors and their animals of the Tierschutzverein Stuttgart e. V.
- Audience award: Moje Tieden - against poverty among women in East Friesland by the Zonta Club Leer-Ostfriesland
2019
Participants in the award ceremony and a. Franziska Giffey , Nazan Gökdemir , Renan Demirkan , Niko Kappel , Mathias Mester , Christian Kipper, Richard Lutz , Grace Turner, Bohemian Noise Singer
- Creating opportunities category : “Homeless people show students their Berlin” by querstadtein e. V.
- Overcoming boundaries category : CDS GmbH
- Saving life category : “Microplastics - Danger from the household ?!” by the students Leonie and Zoë Prillwitz and Aurélie Zimmermann
- Strengthening democracy category : ichbinhier e. V.
- Category Connecting Generations : Swap Education for Housing e. V.
- Audience award: Soko animal welfare
- Special prize: Ostritz Peace Festival Initiative
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sponsors. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
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- ↑ Award ceremony 2017. Accessed on January 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Award ceremony 2018. Accessed on January 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Award ceremony 2019. Accessed December 6, 2019 .
