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The Intercultural Innovation Award is a partnership between the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group that selects and supports the most innovative grassroots projects that encourage intercultural dialogue and work toward a more peaceful and socially inclusive world by building mutual respect among peoples of different cultural and religious identities, rejecting violent extremism and embracing diversity.
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The Intercultural Innovation Award is bestowed upon ten organizations. The main objective of the Intercultural Innovation Award is to identify and support innovative projects that are already being implemented and have the potential for expansion and replication. The award is given to the organization that is implementing the project with the overall objective of helping the organization to sustainably expand and adapt the project to other contexts. Projects presented within this call must have shown successful outcomes during at least its first year of implementation.
Opportunity Focus Areas:
- Intercultural dialogue and understanding
- Social work
- Charity
- Education
- Researc
- Labor union
- Indigenous group
- Faith-based organization
- Professional association
Required Languages
English.
Eligible Countries
All World Countries.
Program Period
One year.
Of support from UNAOC and the BMW Group.
Eligibility Requirements (Criteria)
Organizations that submit a project to the competition need to fulfill each and every one of the following criteria to be deemed eligible:
- Organizations must be registered as a not-for-profit organization, such as a non-governmental organization, charitable organization, research and educational institution, labor union, indigenous group, faith-based organization, professional association, foundation and local or municipal branches of government.
- Applying organizations must have been operational for a minimum of 2 years before April 2019; with funding base and project implementation (i.e. the organization must show registration as non-profit in their country of operation by April 2017 or earlier).
- Applying organizations must be managing a project focused on promoting intercultural dialogue and understanding. Examples include projects in the fields of combating xenophobia, education for global citizenship, interfaith dialogue, migration and integration, prevention of violent extremism, as well as initiatives addressing the needs of specific groups in promoting intercultural understanding (e.g. faith-based, youth, women, media, etc.)
- The applying organization must have the willingness to expand the range of action of the project with UNAOC, the BMW Group, and other partners.
- Organizations that have previously received any UNAOC support are not eligible to apply to the Intercultural Innovation Award.
- Projects that have been submitted to previous editions of the Intercultural Innovation Award and were not selected, are eligible and encouraged to apply again. However, applying organizations cannot have been winners of previous editions of the UNAOC Marketplace of Ideas or BMW Group Awards.
Opportunity Cost
(Award)
Awardees will receive:
- Funding to be used for project expansion and/or replication of their project. The total amount of the funding pool is USD 100,500 distributed as follows:
- 1st USD 40,000
- 2nd USD 20,000
- 3rd USD 15,000
- 4th USD 8,000
- 5th USD 5,000
- 6th–10th USD 2,500
- Training and capacity building
- Customized support and mentoring
- Recognition and visibility
- Intercultural leaders membership
How to Apply
First Step: Register for a new account on the website to start your application process.
Second Step: Fill in Applicant’s Information, Organization’s Information, and Project’s Information in the application form by clicking “Apply Now“.
Third Step: Describe up to 5 main activities of your project and outcomes/expected outcomes. Please provide qualitative and quantitative data that show your impact.
Fourth Step: List up to 3 ways that your project innovates in the promotion of intercultural dialogue, understanding, and cooperation.
Fifth Step: Provide up to 3 explanations as to how your organization would use the support received from UNAOC and the BMW Group to expand and replicate the project.
Sixth Step: Answer the Additional Questions
Seventh Step: Upload Supporting Documents:
- Organization’s proof of registration.
- Statutes (or other document that states the goals, governance structure, etc.) of the organization.
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