Eduard Ploier Prize

The Eduard Ploier Prize and the Eduard Ploier Journalist Prize are cash prizes for special achievements in development cooperation abroad and in development education in Austria .

description

The prizes named after Eduard Ploier have been advertised and awarded every two years by a board of trustees since 1999 and 2001 and are endowed with a total of 22,000 euros.

The sponsorship of the award is represented by a board of trustees consisting of representatives of the Province of Upper Austria , the Diocese of Linz , the ORF Upper Austria, the Bezirksrundschau GmbH , the Raiffeisenlandesbank Upper Austria , the Bildungshaus Schloss Puchberg , the Catholic Action and HORIZONT3000 . The Board of Trustees announces the award and determines the jury for the selection of the award winners.

Award winners

1999

• Johann Gnadlinger, Horizont 3000 , Climate-Adapted Lifestyle and Water Provision in Brazil
• Rudolf Hubmann, Action Austrians help Afghans
• Georg Hubmer, Fair Trade, Ried im Traunkreis
• Sr. Elfride Jagersberger , Colombia
• Roland Spendlingwimmer , Costa Rica
• Episcopal Vicar Franz Windischhofer, Peru

2001

• Sr. Hildegard Litzlhammer, Congo - Kinshasa
• Pastor Alcantara Gracias, Steyr
• Johann Ausserhuber, Braunau am Inn
• Journalist Prize: Roland Huber, ORF State Studio Upper Austria

2003

• P. Josef Denkmayr, Ghana
• P. Robert Eckerstorfer, Bolivia
• Alois Pernsteiner, Hamerling School Linz
• Dieter Stadler , Casa de los tres mundos , Granada , Nicaragua
• Journalist Prize: Jürgen Tröbinger, Upper Austrian Rundschau

2005

• Father Hubert Leeb , "Esperanca de Deus" Center, Brazil
• Doris Kroll , Horizont 3000 in Nicaragua
• Sr. Hildegard Enzenhofer , House "Beit Emmaus" in Palestine
• Sr. Roswitha Karrer , working group "One World" of the parish St. Anna in Steyr
• Journalist Prize: Josef Wallner (journalist) , church newspaper of the Diocese of Linz

2007

• Tina Demmelbauer, One World Circle, Zell an der Pram
• Johannes Riedl , Upper Austria. Rotary Club and Peter Neuner , Rotary Club Freistadt, Maternal Health in Nigeria
• Primary Manfred Dichtl sen., Manfred Dichtl jun. and Doris Dichtl, ophthalmologists in Ethiopia
• Günther Punz, HS Hofkirchen, Altamira project - Brazil
• Journalist Award: Heidi Riepl, Upper Austria. news

2009

• Otto Hirsch
• Monika Mensah Offei
• Prelate Josef Ahammer
• Andreas Gruber
• Journalist Prize: Ernst Gansinger

2011

• Sister Karoline Hörleinsberger from the Order of the Salvatorians (has been working as a nurse and midwife in Ntita in the Republic of Congo for 35 years )
• Alois Dunzinger from Ottensheim (in the association Initiative for a just world in Ottensheim has supported projects in 17 different development aid countries since 1983 , including the Agadez-Ottensheim / Muu-Mode project as a bridge in Niger )
• Irmgard Prestel (supports the social and rehabilitation center she founded for children and young people with disabilities in the small town of San Ignacio de Velasco in the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia in the early 1990s , Ms. Prestel is 82 years old and has been living since the 1950s -Years in Bolivia)
• Ferdinand Reindl (supports an aid project in the village of Thadi, which is inhabited by the Tibetan ethnic group Tamang, in Nepal around 150 kilometers from Kathmandu at 1900 to 2500 m above sea level)
• Journalist Prize: Maria Katharina Moser ( ORF Orientation ) and Gabriele Hanke (freelance camerawoman, among others working for ORF )

2013

The 2013 Eduard Ploier Prize was awarded on June 24, 2013 by Governor Josef Pühringer and Diocesan Bishop Ludwig Schwarz :

• August Spaller from the Catholic Action of the Parish Perg , Sabinkreis for the project education of children and young people in Lubumbashi and Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
• Lore Beck , curator of the Evangelical Parish AB Linz Innere Stadt for the Enampore project in the Casamance province in southern Senegal .
• Sonja Horsewood-Jemc , chairwoman of the Helfende Zeiten association for the project to build and expand the community school in Mtwapa in Kenya .
• Kurt Haslinger , chairman of the PRO WATSCHINGER association for the PRO WATSCHINGER project - A life in the service of the Maasai , an initiative of the Upper Austrian Cartell Association for Wasso and Endulen Hospital in Tanzania .
• Journalist Award : Christine Haiden (editor-in-chief "Welt der Frau") and René Laglstorfer (freelance journalist "Steyrer Pressebüro ").

2015

At the award ceremony on June 29, 2015, the following winners were honored:

• Brave Aurora , Ghana project by college graduates
• Johann Gmeiner , dean and pastor of Grieskirchen , commitment to Tanzania , Nigeria , India and Brazil
• Bertholde Polterauer , Missionary of the Precious Blood , Wernberg Monastery , has been a missionary in Zimbabwe for decades
• Johann Winkler, Bad Leonfelden, Nepalhilfe Aruntal
• Bruno Plunger, Initiative Eine Welt Braunau, u. a. School partnership project between the HTL Braunau and a school in León, Nicaragua
• Josef Linsmaier, Ruy Barbosa project (cistern construction, training and further education for young people), Brazil
• Journalist Prize: Renate Stockinger, India and Nicaragua reports with a view to the situation of women.

2017

The following winners were honored at the award ceremony on June 20, 2017:

• Childrenplanet - Association for international development cooperation, chairman Christian Gsöllradl-Samhaber, for the projects "HopefulWaterProject, Evergreen School, Teachers Incentives Program and wood workshops - training young people in Cambodia"
• Ingrid Gumpelmaier-Grandl, Eferding, for the project “Fairytale FAIR Fashion - Fair Trade Fashion Project in Nepal”
• Pro Sudan, Chairman Johann Rauscher, for the project "Helping people to help themselves in South Sudan"
• Sister Johanna Brandstetter CPS from the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood; for her life's work
• Journalist Award: Karin Maria Bayr (editor-in-chief at the Rohrbach district broadcast)

Web links

• Prize winners since 1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ploier Prize 2011 Description Eduard Ploier Prize and Eduard Ploier Journalist Prize PDF
2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Eduard Ploier Price PDF
3. ↑ Thomas Winkler: Eduard Ploier Prizes for Development Work, Province of Upper Austria and the Diocese of Linz recognize development cooperation projects , in: Bezirksrundschau Linz Online from June 25, 2013
4. ^ Eduard Ploier Prize and Eduard Ploier Journalist Prize Upper Austria. Development aid for a just world . Retrieved July 1, 2018.