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07/07/2025

07/07/2025

Backstage at SozialMarie 2025! Episode 12 is out, Tune in now!

Sparkle, goosebumps and social change – that’s how we’d describe our 2025 award ceremony. But what really happens behind the scenes? What thoughts guide our jury as they navigate over 400 submissions? And what does social innovation mean today? Listen to the podcast here.

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07/05/2025

07/05/2025

(Re)Building Democracy 2025 - Pecs

Summary of Key Insights from (Re)Building Democracy 2025 Pécs, Hungary | June 18–19, 2025 Our coordinator of Czech Republic, Lenka Safrankova joined this years Conference in Pecs. Here you can find her summary of the dicussions.   Status of democracy and civil society in the CEE region Michal Vašečka (SK) “We are living through the biggest paradigmatic shift of our lifetimes — akin to the agricultural or industrial revolution, but much faster.” He refered to the classical three-sector model of society (state (public sector), the market (private sector), and civil society (nonprofit and voluntary sector)). He described Central and Eastern Europe as “a ship stuck on a sandbank,” paralyzed and fatigued by change: “We are a region like a ship stranded on a sandbank. We are unable to navigate the change — we are fatigued.” “People believe democracy no longer delivers what they want. They've given up.” Half of Slovaks do not participate in civic life; the other half is drawn to conspiracies.  

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06/01/2025

06/01/2025

Videos of SozialMarie Winners 2025

Learn more about the SozialMarie 2024 winners in 1-minute videos for each project.

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05/02/2025

05/02/2025

Our SozialMarie 2025 winners and the Event highlights in pictures!

Just announced and already shining – here’s the very first winners' photo! On May 1st, 2025, the 21st SozialMarie Award Ceremony took place at the beautiful MuTh Vienna. Our 2025 laureates bring fresh energy and powerful ideas for social innovation across Europe.  

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04/22/2025

04/22/2025

New Podcast Episode: “My Voice, My Choice” – A Voice for Europe

In the latest episode of our SozialMarie Podcast, Živa and José  welcome the impressive Nika Kovač, Director of the Inštitut 8. marec. 

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04/22/2025

04/22/2025

… and the winner of the audience award is….

We warmly congratulate the Austrian project "Pferdinands Trostbox" on winning the SocialMarie Audience Award 2025. 

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02/27/2025

02/27/2025

SozialMarie 2025 – Our nominated projects have been selected!

Congratulations to 34 projects on their nomination for SozialMarie!

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01/14/2025

01/14/2025

The call for applications is closed

The submission phase for SozialMarie ended on January 14, 2025. 401 projects from 6 countries reached us! Now the projects will be reviewed by our international evaluators.

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