Social festival – Do something
- Topic area
- Basic services, Leader, municipalities
- Disaggregation level
- Social services
- Project region
- Styria
- Local Action Group (LAG)
- LAG Steirische Eisenstraße
- LE– Programming Period
- LE 07–13
- Project period
- 2011-2013
- Project costs overall
- 200000
- Project initiator
- Verein Steirische Eisenstrasse
LE 07-13 information
Themenbereich (Untergliederung): Leader (Soziales)LAG (lokale Aktionsgruppe): Steirische Eisenstraße
Maßnahme: M421
Short description
The "Social Festival" project took place in 2012 as a LEADER project in the LAG ‘Steirische Eisenstraße’. It was conceived as a festival of personal initiative. From a "bottum-up" level the population was invited to suggest good project ideas to the festival. Then, 200.000 Euros were available for the implementation while additional voluntary commitment of the project sponsors was desired.In addition to fighting against poverty, fostering good economic activity and good coexistence, projects about equal opportunities were also in the foreground. One focus was on projects about migration/integration (which are a burning issue, especially in the area of Leoben - schools with up to 70% children with a migration background), projects with integration efforts for disabled people and the involvement of young people in a demographically problematic region that has the oldest average age in Austria.
