Kontakt. The Arts and Civil Society Program of Erste Group
"Kontakt" is the platform for the social and cultural commitment of Erste Group. We form partnerships with institutions and take initiative focusing on contemporary cultural activities, while we are also involved in educational and social projects.
You can select the projects of Corporate Sponsoring of Erste Group by topics. To do so please click on the menu on the right.
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Current projects:
Unter dem Patronat des Friedensnobelpreisträgers und Gründers der Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus findet 2010 die „Social Business Tour 2010“ in Zentral- und Osteuropa statt. Die nächste Station ist Budapest (ab 7. Juli 2010).
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Since its opening in 1993, the Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) has not only successfully established itself as the number one address for architecture in Austria, it has also gone on to develop into the only architecture museum in Austria in a context of increasing public debate on the culture of building.
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Since 2003 four studios are available in Quartier 21 for international artists and other providers of culture.
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The Kontakt. Fashion Award by Erste Group shall support the creativity and exceptional potential of fashion designers from CEE countries and presenting their work to a wider audience in Austria.
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Every year around December 10, Human Rights Day, over 100 feature length and documentary films are shown in three Viennese cinemas, made by directors from throughout the world who examine in their work current themes relating to human rights.
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The Jean Améry Award for Essay Writing recognizes outstanding achievements in the field of educational essays analysing contemporary issues.
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“Kino wie noch nie“ translated “Cinema like never before” is being organised by FILMARCHIV AUSTRIA at the “Augartenspitz”, and is one of the loveliest summer locations for open-air cinema. The cinema programme offers an exciting mix of film classics, festival highlights and Austrian premieres.
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Erste Group Composition Commission - since 1989 Erste Group is commissioning original compositions through an award granted to young Austrian composers.
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Books, cataloges, magazines, CD´s und DVD´s sponsered by "Kontakt"
Kontakt. The Programme for Art and Civil Society of Erste Group enables numerous books, catalogues, magazines, CDs and DVDs.
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Through its partnership with the Secession, Erste Group lives up to its focus on the support of contemporary art.
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Tanzquartier Wien – a versatile centre for dance and performance – sees itself as a workshop, studio and communicative interface for artists from Austria and Central Europe.
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"tranzit" is a network of independent non-profit civic associations in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Slovak Republic. Since 2002, it generates artistic, cultural and exhibition activities with a critical approach in a constant dialectic between local and global culture.
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International writers (of mainly Eastern European provenience) as artist-in-residence in TOP 22, the writers´ studio of Unabhängiges Literaturhaus NÖ
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The Vienna Design Week is an annual international design festival, focusing on product and industrial design.
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The International Contemporary Art Fair focused on Central Eastern Europe.
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Every October, the VIENNALE takes place in beautiful cinemas in Vienna´s historic center, providing a festival with an international orientation and a distinctive urban flair.
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Die Erste Bank fördert in Kooperation mit dem DACHVERBAND HOSPIZ, dem Österreichischen Roten Kreuz, der Caritas Österreich, dem Hilfswerk Austria und der Zweiten Sparkasse das soziale Engagement ihrer Mitarbeiter in ehrenamtlichen Tätigkeiten.
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Every year since 1945, the “European Forum Alpbach” has been held in the Tyrolian mountain village of Alpbach. For almost three weeks Alpbach becomes the village of thinkers or, as Otto Molden, the founder of the Forum, called it, the “other magic mountain”.
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Erste Group is a longterm partner of Hilfswerk Austria and specially supports its annual information campaign, which in 2010 holds valuable tips in store regarding child care and child benefits, child security and precautions.
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Children play theater. With the support of Erste Group the Children's Theater Vienna allows children and young people to gain their first acting experience and to discover the stage, as well as themselves.
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Erste Group has been a partner of Caritas of long standing, and among other things supports the annual Eastern Europe Campaign on behalf of children in Europe's poorest countries, the National Help Campaign, and in 2010 the relief action for the earthquake victims in Haiti.
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The “Long Night of the Churches” is a joint project of all 14 Christian denominations that are represented in the World Council of Churches in Austria.
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Literature by and with people with disabilities
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Tricky Women, the only festival of animated film in Europe that is dedicated exclusively to animation by women.
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Yad Vashem is the national memorial in Israel that commemorates the persecution and murder of six million Jews during Holocaust. The memorial was established in Jerusalem in 1953. The Austrian Friends of Yad Vashem preserve the memory of the Holocaust in Austria with special commemoration and educational projects.
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Unlike other museums, Zoom Kindermuseum enables children to explore, experience and play and to discover the world with all their senses.
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Erste Group is the exclusive partner of the jazz cycle at the Wiener Konzerthaus.
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Since the foundation of the Society of Music Lovers in Vienna little less than 200 years ago, the Musikverein and Erste Group have been closely cooperating.
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