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Published: 16 Jan 2024 191 views
Started as an initiative at the Auschwitz Pledge Foundation, the Erase Indifference Challenge is an innovation engine created to find and fund modern, imaginative, and measurable initiatives that will lead to concrete actions and ultimately the demise of indifference, the rise of empathy, and the acceptance and celebration of our differences.
We are encouraging entries that use technology, socialization and collaboration techniques, gamification, pop culture approaches, data and research, social experiments, and/or educational tools. We are especially interested in ideas that will connect with younger people and concern one of our categories:
1. racism, 2. anti-semitism, 3. anti-immigration & xenophobia, 4. LGBTQIA+ discrimination, and 5. misogyny
It’s clear. Indifference is one of the leading causes of man’s inhumanity to man. We can do better. Together we can erase indifference towards discrimination to build a safer world for all.
At the Auschwitz Pledge Foundation, our mission is to take an active stand against indifference to discrimination in all shapes and sizes. Overview As Holocaust survivor, political activist, professor, and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel so eloquently said: “Of course, indifference can be tempting — more than that, seductive. It is much easier to look away from victims. It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes. It is, after all, awkward, troublesome, to be involved in another person’s pain and despair. Yet for the person who is... continue reading
| Application Deadline | 11 Feb 2024 |
| Value | €30,000 |
| Type | Contest |
| Sponsor | Auschwitz Pledge Foundation |
| Gender | Men and Women |
We 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.
We direct our initiative 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.
Rules:
Consider innovative ideas that address and combat indifference towards discrimination
Get creative! Imagine fresh approaches to engage and inspire!
Use ICT in your proposal and make sure your idea is tangible, flexible, scalable, and measurable
Please submit your application in English
Present an idea that's either already in progress or completely new – it's up to you!
Think about whether your idea can have an impact on a local or/and a global scale. It's your choice!
The initial stage of the competition involves a preliminary assessment conducted by the Auschwitz Pledge Foundation's dedicated team. Assessors evaluate the applications for credibility and cohesiveness, incorporating both formal assessment and preliminary content-related review. This evaluation process represents the first of two critical phases in determining the projects that advance to the second stage. Only after this comprehensive review will APF’s team identify and forward the top 30 projects to the Challenge Committee for their assessment.
Applications that have passed the APF’s team assessment go through the content-related review and evaluation done by the Challenge Committee, which chooses 10 projects that take part in the second stage of the competition.
During the second stage of the Challenge, finalists take part in workshops sessions focused on many different areas such as – technology, evaluation, Human Rights and Combating Discrimination, fundraising, etc., during which finalists will be able to improve their applications. The second stage of the Challenge ends with the designation of three winners that receive the support and funding from Auschwitz Pledge Foundation. In order to select those three winning projects, representatives of the Auschwitz Pledge Foundation Board and the Challenge Committee evaluate the in-depth version of the application form (created during the second stage of the competition under the supervision of our experts and with their assistance), as well as opinions of the experts.
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
On 10th January 2024, the Open Call for applications will commence and applicants from all over the world are invited to participate. We strive to make our competition as accessible and straightforward as possible, therefore we have prepared a simple application process.?
You can find the application form on the EraseIndifference.org website in the section dedicated to the competition. A successful application generates a confirmation email sent to the indicated address.
For more details visit: Erase Indifference website.