Margaretha Lupac Foundation

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The Margaretha Lupac Foundation is a foundation of the Austrian Parliament .

On the one hand, the foundation serves to award outstanding services to parliamentarianism and democracy in Austria. In addition, research tasks and conferences dealing with parliamentarism can be supported from this foundation. But artists can also be supported.

The three Presidents of the National Council , the President of the Federal Council and other active or former members of the National Council sit on the Foundation's Board of Trustees .

Founder

Main article: Margaretha Lupac

The founder was Margaretha Lupac, who was born on April 28, 1910 in Vienna. She died childless on February 17, 1999 and bequeathed all of her assets worth 1.5 million euros to the Republic for parliamentary purposes.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The parliamentary week from November 6 to 12, 2017: Awarding of the Lupac Science Prize . OTS notification dated November 3, 2017, accessed November 3, 2017.
  2. Democracy Prize for three projects . OTS announcement of December 18, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018.
  3. Science Award 2019. In: parlament.gv.at. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .