# $40k prize offered for intercultural dialogue and understanding

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/09/02/40k-prize-for-intercultural-dialogue-and-understanding/
- Published: 2015-09-02T10:37:57+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Organisations that are encouraging intercultural dialogue and which are in a position
to scale-up and replicate are invited to apply for the Intercultural Innovation 
Award.**

A partnership between the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the BMW Group,
the award offers a first prize of $40,000. Nine other organisations judged to have
the potential for expansion and replication will also be awarded funding and strategic
support.

To be eligible organisations, which can be anywhere in the world, must be running
innovative and sustainable projects that promote intercultural dialogue and understanding.
They should also be working in the fields of:

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– migration and integration;

– intercultural awareness;

– education for intercultural citizenship;

– and/or be organisations addressing the needs of specific groups in promoting intercultural
understanding (e.g. faith-based, youth, women, media, etc.)

The deadline to apply for the [Intercultural Innovation Award](https://interculturalinnovation.org/the-award/)
is 30 September 2015 at 5pm EST.

 

## Past winners

> Receiving the [#iiaward](https://twitter.com/hashtag/iiaward?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> opened many doors to More Than One Story to partner organizations around the world.
> [pic.twitter.com/MjHcT5UpAt](http://t.co/MjHcT5UpAt)
> — Intercultural Innovation Hub (@InterInnovHub) [July 8, 2015](https://twitter.com/InterInnovHub/status/618797536057393152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

> As a result of winning [#iiaward](https://twitter.com/hashtag/iiaward?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw),
> the number of people who downloaded [@alltognow](https://twitter.com/alltognow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> app tripled within a month! [pic.twitter.com/XtbFeWshpX](http://t.co/XtbFeWshpX)
> — Intercultural Innovation Hub (@InterInnovHub) [July 4, 2015](https://twitter.com/InterInnovHub/status/617347851757203456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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