USable
The USable transatlantic ideas competition initiated by the Körber Foundation was endowed with 150,000 euros and was awarded every two years for suggestions on how to implement American ideas in Germany . Everyone who knows Germany and the US from their own experience was able to participate in the tender. The nationality of the participants did not matter.
The individual tenders
1st USable tender 1998/1999
This call comprised 6 subject areas:
- Commitment to civil society
- Departure for the Berlin republic
- Learning for tomorrow: college
- Learning for tomorrow: school
- Live better
- New ways in traffic safety
2nd USable tender 2000
This call consisted of 7 subject areas:
- Promotion of civic engagement
- New initiatives in education
- Emancipation from patients
- Integration of the disabled
- Ideas for the service society
- Strengthening the role of parents in society
- Impulses for the legal system
3rd USable call 2001/2002 (subject: "Citizen engagement in the New World")
This call consisted of 5 subject areas:
- Project prices
- Idea prizes
- Text main prizes
- Text prices
- Youth text awards
4th USable call 2003/2004 (subject: "Living together: integration and diversity")
This call consisted of 5 subject areas:
- Project prices
- Idea prizes
- Text main prizes
- Text prices
- Youth text awards
5th USable call 2005/2006 (subject: "Transitions in Life. Help with transitions")
The topics Help for young parents, children and seniors comprised 3 transition topics and there were 3 project prizes.
6th USable call 2007/2008
There was also an invitation to tender in 2008. The award winners met at the KörberForum in Hamburg at the end of 2009.
7th USable call 2009/2010
The seventh call (2009/2010) was dedicated to the topic of “Engagement of the 50+ generation”. Three projects received cash prizes of 20,000 euros each.
Web links
- Usable Prize of the Körber Foundation (last archived version in the Internet Archive from October 30, 2008)
Individual evidence
- ^ Körber Foundation - Qualification of Usable Prize Winners. In: Seondwerk. Körbler Foundation, accessed on December 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Transatlantic Ideas Competition USable , archived version of the Internet Archive on 17 July 2011th