Awards
Over the years, we and the project partners we have supported and accompanied (e.g. municipalities and regions) have won a whole series of national and international awards.
Here is an overview of the most important awards:
2016
Austrian Public Administration Award 2016 of the Federal Chancellery
The Office for Future Related Issues was honoured with the Austrian Public Administration Award 2016 for the state-wide Citizens’ Council on ‘Asylum and Refugees in Vorarlberg’. Continue
2015
ÖGUT-Environmental Award 2015
The Office for Future Related Issues was honoured with the ÖGUT Environmental Award 2015 in the Participation and Civil Society Engagement category for the state-wide Citizens’ Council on the topic of ‘Asylum and Refugees in Vorarlberg’. Continue
2010
Europ. ARGE Landentwicklung Dorferneuerung
The municipality of Langenegg wins the European Village Renewal Award
With the support of the Office for Future Related Issues of the Vorarlberg state government, the Bregenzerwald community of Langenegg with its 1062 inhabitants launched an exemplary development process in the mid-1990s, initially with the aim of significantly improving the quality of life in its own community in order to counteract the threat of emigration and the loss of service facilities and jobs. Continue
2010
Austrian Public Administration Award 2010 of the Federal Chancellery
The ‘Children in the Centre’ project is awarded the Austrian Administration Prize in the Participation and Co-Creation category. Continue
2007
EPSA – European Public Service Award
In 2007, the Office for Future Related Issues is honoured with the European Administrative Award. It is therefore one of the six main prize winners from 59 administrations throughout Europe. Continue
2005
ÖGUT-Environmental Award 2005
The Office for Future Related Issues was awarded the ÖGUT Environmental Prize 2005 in the category ‘Innovative and sustainable projects in the field of participation’ for the project ‘Children in the centre’. Continue
2002
Europ. ARGE Landentwicklung Dorferneuerung
The region Great Walser Valley wins the European Village Renewal Award
The Great Walser Valley (Grosses Walsertal), consisting of six municipalities with just under 3,500 inhabitants, was certified as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 2000. The Office for Future Related Issues provided the region with the software, so to speak, in the form of the ‘Lebenswert leben’ process, in order to win over the population of the valley and actively involve them in the project. Since then, the Große Walsertal has been a model region for a sustainable economy and way of life and a prime example of integrated, cross-municipal rural development based on strong citizen participation. Continue