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THE ALPINE FELLOWSHIP WRITING PRIZE

Application Deadline: 1 March 2024

LOCATION: England

Apply for the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2024. Awarded for the best piece of writing on the theme of ‘Language’. The winner and runners-up will receive cash prizes and will be invited to attend our annual symposium.

ELIGIBILITY:

All genres of writing are permitted, including fiction, non-fiction, and non-academic essays.

Open to all nationalities.

Applicants must be aged 18 or above at the time of entry.

All entries must be written in English.

Applicants can only enter one of our prizes.

Limited to one entry per person.

Submissions must be standalone and cannot be extracted from a larger piece.

A maximum of 2,500 words per entry.

Stories must not have been published, self-published, or accepted for publication in print or online, or have won or been placed in another competition at any time.

BENEFIT:

First place: £3,000

Second place: £1,000

Third place: £1,000

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ERASE INDIFFERENCE CHALLENGE 

Application Deadline: 11/02/2024

LOCATION: Poland

Erase Indifference Challenge by the Auschwitz Pledge Foundation, a global competition to find and support innovative projects fighting indifference towards discrimination. 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.

ELIGIBILITY:

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.

BENEFIT:

At least 3 innovative projects will win up to €30.000 grants along with mentors support.

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