This year you voted again, and therefore participated in the decision which projects from Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic would win the SozialMarie Audience Award 2016. Congratulations to all three Audience Award Winners, who receive a short and informative video about themselves from us!

The expert jury has once again selected 15 outstanding socially innovative projects for the 2016 SozialMarie awards. On Sunday 1^st of May at Vienna’s RadioKulturhaus, more than 300 guests saw for themselves what remarkable standards the three main and the twelve other prizes have attained.

For 2016, the actor, director and cabaret artist Josef Hader has accepted active patronage for an Austrian project, the blogger, author and TV show host Zsófia Mautner for a Hungarian project, and the successful top-manager and economist Pavel Kysilka for a Czech project.

This year, out of almost 280 submitted projects from Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Germany and Croatia, SozialMarie's jury of experts has nominated 32 projects for SozialMarie 2016. Congratulations to all nominated projects!