Essl Social Prize

The Essl Social Prize was donated by Martin Essl and his wife Gerda, the owning family of the Austrian DIY chain bauMax, as an international social price. The prize is awarded annually since 2008 and is used to support projects of private social initiatives or of so-called social entrepreneurs.

A social advisory board supports the donor or the Speaker of the Family Advisory Council in the selection of social projects. The funds made available will be ( exclusively ) benefit the funded projects and used efficiently.

Award winners

  • 2008 - Father Georg Sporschill for "Casa Abraham " Ploiesti, Romania
  • 2009 - Tiborné Szekeres for the residential project " worthy of aging for people with disabilities ", Hungary
  • 2010 - Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka, for his life's work.
  • 2011 - Almaz and Karlheinz Böhm for the project People for People
  • 2012 - Wolfgang Pucher for his help with homelessness
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