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ERSTE Foundation

Positive change is based on shared values. On this platform you have access to ideas and people.Together with our partners we create development.

ERSTE Foundation is active in the Central and South Eastern European region including Austria. Founded in 2003, we began our work two years later by developing strategies that support awareness raising and knowledge creation for responsible and active citizens enabling them to stand for and support liberal, democratic values and European cohesion. Other than that ERSTE Foundation offers inspiring

models of successful social integration and cultural innovation to stimulate the engagement of others, as examples of good practice and as a reference for partnerships with other actors. It also promotes engagement with critical societal developments by artists and cultural producers and mediates their works to a wider public.

01/09/2026

September keeps up the pace: new exhibitions open in Debrecen and Vienna, several open calls come to a close, and the final week brings the Vienna Humanities Festival.

»Im Sturm« – premiere of a short film on young carers in Austria, presented with Alles Clara.
📅 2 September 2026, 18:00
📍 Feuerwehrhaus, Alpbach

»Islands of Conviviality« – a mobile educational programme across the Croatian islands of Vis, Hvar and Brač, marking the centenary of philosopher Ivan Illich.
📅 1–9 September 2026
📍 Croatia

»Café Vienna« with Stipan Tadić – an artist talk on Tadić's painting series exploring Vienna through its cafés, bars and restaurants, with Ivana Dragicevic and , moderated by vanja_zanko. Part of PARALLEL VIENNA | contemporary art fair 2026.
📅 11 September 2026
📍 Otto Wagner Areal, Vienna

»Looking Away« – an international group exhibition on averting one's eyes from war, climate change and other urgencies as both coping mechanism and quiet complicity. Curated by Maximilian Lehner
📅 11 September 2026 – 3 January 2027
📍 Center sodobnih umetnosti, Celje

»Marc Impact Programme 2026/2027« – call for applications.
❗ Apply by 11 September 2026

Biennale Matter of Art »Necessary Wishes« – the fourth edition of the Biennale, organised by tranzit.cz.
📅 until 13 September 2026
📍 Prague & Pardubice

»Where Boundaries Blur« – an exhibition on diasporic experience, belonging & intertwined histories by MQ Artists-in-Residence Mira Gaberova, Marei Loellmann and Mario Mu, curated by Viktor Čech & Elisabeth Hajek, closes this month.
📅 until 13 September 2026
📍 MQ – MuseumsQuartier Wien Pop Up Schauraum, Vienna

»Artist-in-Residence Programme 2027« – call for applications by tranzit.org for the Vienna residency.
❗ Apply by 15 September 2026

»Mitmacht 2026 x reCampaign26« – Democracy Festival.
🗓 23–26 September 2026
📍 Berlin

Vienna Humanities Festival 2026 – »Agency / Tu Was« – organised by Institute for Human Sciences.
🗓 23–27 September 2026
📍 Vienna

»Cultivators of Life« – Growing Seedbeds of Knowledge - an international exhibition exploring cultivation as a form of knowledge production, organised by tranzit Bucharest in partnership with MODEM.
📅 until 5 November 2026
📍 MODEM, Debrece

25/08/2026

For 20 years, Zweite Sparkasse has been a bank for people without access to banking services, helping around 28,000 people across Austria find their way back to financial independence.

Founded by ERSTE Foundation in 2006, it combines accounts with counselling and support, delivered by 380 volunteer staff from Erste Bank across 8 branches. It's likely the only bank that's genuinely happy to lose its customers, once they no longer need its support.

Looking ahead, under CEO Rupert Rieder, Zweite Sparkasse is pairing crisis support with preventive financial education to reach even more people.

Its early education work also laid the groundwork for FLiP - Financial Life Park.

🔗 Learn more at https://www.erstestiftung.org/en/starting-anew-20-years-of-zweite-sparkasse/

20/08/2026

The Czech app Nepanikař has won the Marc Grand Impact Award 2026, receiving €20,000 in prize money.

Nepanikař offers free, low-threshold and anonymous support for people in psychological crisis. It has nearly 800,000 users, with more than 500 people turning to it every day for support with panic attacks, eating disorders, self-harm and suicidal thoughts. The app provides chats, crisis hotlines and access to therapy, run by a professionally trained team on an open-source technology base. Next, Nepanikař plans to expand into further countries and grow its training programme.

🔗 Link in bio for more.

Are you building something meaningful and ready to take it further, or do you know someone who is? Apply for the new Marc cohort now: https://at.marc-impactprogramme.net/

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

19/08/2026

»We're living in a time of two competing forces, violence and resistance, coexisting side by side.« - Adelina Luft

Curator .luft (.ro.bucuresti) speaks about »On the Thousand and Second Night«, the work she brings to the at the Biennale di Venezia 2026 together with artist Pavel Brăila (). Carpets suspended and set in motion by drone technology, pointing to the contrast between the terrifying, familiar sound of war and the domestic objects, the carpets, that carry centuries of symbolism: protection, and a symbiosis with the natural and non-human world.

»I can say that from my position as a curator, and within the community I'm part of, we encourage and we are part of speaking out, having a loud voice, standing for what matters, for the people whose lives are under threat, and for justice,« says Luft.

For Luft, this duality is something we have to accept. We have to resist without turning away, and to focus on what we can do differently: to both acknowledge what's wrong and propose alternatives.

ERSTE Foundation supported the artistic research behind the work.

🗓 »In Minor Keys«: until 22 November 2026

🔗Click the link in bio to read more in our journal.

17/08/2026

What's happening in Alpbach? Explore ERSTE Foundation's activities at this year's European Forum Alpbach (EFA) under the theme »How Europe Wins«.

From 24 August to 4 September, join us for conversations, labs and encounters on Ukraine, financial education, housing, the future of the Balkans, young caregivers, and what keeps communities going when systems fail.

»Be(e) Together« - An Invitation from ERSTE Foundation
📅 30 August
⏰ 18:30-20:00
📍 Village Square

»Use Your Voice: Decide Which AI Project Best Supports Women Through Financial Education«
📅 31 August
⏰ 09:00-10:00
📍 CCA - Schrödinger-Saal

»Ukraine as Europe's Stress Test«
📅 31 August
⏰ 09:00-10:30
📍 CCA - Heiss-Rogger-Saal

»To be or not to be, that is Europe's question«
📅 31 August
⏰ 10:30-12:00
📍 CCA - Schrödinger-Saal

»Imagining Balkans Futures in 2040«
📅 1 September
⏰ 09:00-10:30
📍 CCA - Liechtenstein-Saal

»How Europe Wins on Housing«
📅 1 September
⏰ 14:00-15:30
📍 Hotel Böglerhof – Fichtensaal

»What Works When Systems Fail: Patterns of Collective Financial Resilience«
📅 2 September
⏰ 09:00-10:30
📍 CCA - Heiss-Saal

»When Children Take on the Role of Carers: The Unseen Role of Young Caregivers«
📅 2 September
⏰ 15:30-17:00
📍 CCA - Heiss-Rogger-Saal

Also look out for sessions with Europe's Futures Fellows Alberto Alemanno, Yascha Mounk and Lea Ypi throughout the Forum.

Let's explore ideas, challenges and solutions together at the European Forum Alpbach 2026!

🔗 For more information: https://www.erstestiftung.org/en/events/european-forum-alpbach-2026-2/

13/08/2026

The Austrian education organisation DaVinciLab has won the Marc Scalability Champion Award 2026 with TalentsLounge, receiving €15,000 in prize money.

TalentsLounge is a digital learning platform that supports teachers with ready-made materials on topics like coding and artificial intelligence. Its approach: these skills are best learned by applying them directly. AI is used to help adapt the materials even faster. Looking ahead, TalentsLounge aims to reach as many people as possible with digital skills internationally, and beyond schools.

🔗 Learn more: https://davincilab.at/

Are you building something meaningful and ready to take it further, or do you know someone who is? Apply for the new Marc cohort now: https://at.marc-impactprogramme.net/

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, first cut-off September 11!

12/08/2026

For the Moldova Pavilion 2026 - La Biennale di Venezia's first-ever official participation at the Biennale di Venezia, artist Pavel Brăila, and curator Adelina Luft (Tranzit Bucuresti) present »On the Thousand and Second Night«. Carpets, suspended and set in motion by drone technology - a familiar folkloric motif carried into the realities of the present.

»This installation not only speaks about the situation and the artistic impact, but it also speaks about the voice of Moldova itself,« says Brăila. The carpet, for him, marks the closest war. Moldova is present in the pavilion visually, and »noisily« through sound. Visitors arrive to discover the country and the work at the same time.

ERSTE Foundation supported the artistic research behind the work.

🗓 La Biennale di Venezia »In Minor Keys«: until 22 November 2026

🔗 Read more in our journal: https://www.erstestiftung.org/en/art-memory-and-imagination-at-the-2026-venice-biennale/

10/08/2026

Co-creating and coming together: that's what today's challenges ask of us, and what Alpbach makes possible like few other places.

On 30 August, during the European 2026, we invite you to an evening built around exactly that: connection and shared moments.

Be(e) Together
📅 30 August, 18:30
📍 Village Square, Alpbach

🔗 Explore our full Alpbach programme at https://www.erstestiftung.org/en/events/european-forum-alpbach-2026-2/

06/08/2026

The young Romanian start-up Origin BCI has won the Marc Innovation Champion Award 2026, receiving €15,000 in prize money.

It has developed a bionic hand prosthesis that also conveys the sensation of actually touching things. It aims to be both more affordable and better-looking than existing solutions on the market, designed above all for people who have lost an arm. Thanks to their mobility, the prostheses could also find use in industrial robotics. The founders now plan to produce the prototype themselves.

🔗 Learn more at https://www.originbci.com/news/origin-bci-remark-2026-budapest

Are you building something meaningful and ready to take it further, or do you know someone who is? Apply for the new Marc cohort now: https://at.marc-impactprogramme.net/

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, first cut-off September 11!

04/08/2026

From Ukraine to the futures of the Balkans, from housing to financial education, the European Forum Alpbach has always been more than a conference. It's where diverse perspectives meet, where curiosity fuels dialogue, and where bold ideas turn into action. Get a first insight into ERSTE Foundation's activities at the European Forum Alpbach 2026 and be part of the conversation.

📅24 August – 4 September 2026
📍 Alpbach

🔗 Learn more at https://www.erstestiftung.org/en/events/european-forum-alpbach-2026-2/

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