Deadline: 11 February 2024
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 the differences.
They are encouraging entries that use technology, socialization and collaboration techniques, gamification, pop culture approaches, data and research, social experiments, and/or educational tools. They are especially interested in ideas that will connect with younger people and concern one of the categories:
- racism,
- anti-semitism,
- anti-immigration & xenophobia,
- LGBTQIA+ discrimination, and
- misogyny
Funding Information
- They 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- They direct the 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 they cannot admit into the Challenge. They 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.
Language
- The application has to be submitted in English. As this is an international challenge, they ask that all participants be able to speak and write in English at least on a communicative level.
For more information, visit Auschwitz Pledge Foundation.
