Essl Social Prize
The Essl Social Prize was donated by Martin Essl and his wife Gerda, the owner family of the Austrian hardware store chain bauMax , as an international social prize and awarded by the Essl Foundation. The prize was awarded annually from 2008 to 2012 as well as once for the years 2013/2014, was endowed with one million euros and was used to support projects of private social initiatives or social entrepreneurs .
The award of the Essl Social Prize was discontinued in 2015 due to the financial difficulties of bauMax.
Award winners
- 2008 - Father Georg Sporschill for the “Casa Abraham” project in Ploieşti , Romania.
- 2009 - Tiborné Szekeres for the housing project “Dignified Aging for People with Disabilities”, Hungary.
- 2010 - Bill Drayton , Ashoka Founder , for Lifetime Achievement and Project Ashoka Globalizer.
- 2011 - Almaz and Karlheinz Böhm for the project People for People in Ethiopia.
- 2012 - Wolfgang Pucher for his help with homelessness and VinziDach, a homeless project in Salzburg.
- 2013/14 - Thorkil Sonne for the Specialisterne project and the introduction in Austria, an employment model for people with autism.
Individual proof
- ↑ Essl Social Prize to “People for People” on ORF from March 26, 2011
- ↑ e-dvertising. Hinterdorfer & Edlinger OG. Graz / Zeltweg. Austria / EC: Vinzenzgemeinschaft Eggenberg - VinziWerke | VinziDach Salzburg |. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Pastor Pucher receives Essl Prize on ORF from January 3, 2012
- ↑ Jobs for people with autism - Specialisterne Austria . In: Specialisterne Austria . ( specialisterne.com [accessed August 13, 2018]).