Applications are currently being accepted for the 2024 Erase Indifference Challenge. Originally launched as an initiative by the Auschwitz Pledge Foundation, the Erase Indifference Challenge serves as an innovation hub designed to discover and fund contemporary, creative, and measurable initiatives. The primary objective is to support actions that contribute to the elimination of indifference, the promotion of empathy, and the acceptance and celebration of diversity.
This global initiative seeks to identify and endorse innovative projects dedicated to combating indifference towards various forms of discrimination, including racism, antisemitism, misogyny, discrimination against migrants and refugees, and challenges faced by the LGBTQIA+ community. The Erase Indifference Challenge operates as a catalyst for modern, imaginative, and measurable endeavors, aiming to generate tangible actions and, ultimately, foster a decline in indifference, the ascent of empathy, and the acknowledgment and appreciation of our unique differences.
Eligibility Criteria For The Erase Indifference Challenge
Erase Indifference Challenge initiative is directed to NGOs, startups, companies, public institutions, religious associations or informal groups (that have the support of an umbrella organization to take over the formal aspects of implementing a project) from all over the world.
However, there are certain groups of entities that we cannot admit into our Challenge. We cannot accept your application if you are:
● financed by or in any way related to political entities,
● implementing (or implemented in the past ) activities or projects that stand in opposition to the mission of the Auschwitz Pledge Foundation.
Prize:
- Erase Indifference Challenge offer grants of up to €30,000 to each of the 3 winning projects that have the greatest potential to have a real impact in the world and affect at least one of the previously mentioned forms of indifference.
- The winners will also receive tangible, legal and formal support customized to their project and their needs.
Timeline:
Competition Timeline
10/01/2024
Call for applications of the Erase Indifference Challenge
11/02/2024
Deadline to submit the application
22/03/2024
Announcement of the 10 finalists of the Erase Indifference Challenge
08 – 19/04/2024
Online workshops for the finalists
06/2024
Announcement of the winning projects during the Gala for the Erase Indifference Challenge, Warsaw, Poland
06/2024 – 12/2025
Implementation of the winning projects
Application Deadline: February 11, 2024.
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