Thank you Elisabeth! :-)

Hi everyone, thank you so much for offering this opportunity! Our organization (Vegan Society Austria) works on 3 projects that I would like to ask if they can be considered for funding. Here a brief description of them:

1st project: DGI - Dietary Guideline Initiative. Two of our employees are working on this project and the aim is to change the official dietary recommendations for Austria. We have already achieved success with it and our employees are currently working on changing the nutrition plate and the food pyramid. We would need more money to gain a greater presence in the professional organisations for nutrition and to make vegan nutrition more present.

2nd project: Vegucation. The demand for purely plant-based dishes is increasing in the catering industry. This demand must be met with professional expertise in plant-based cuisine. This is why Vegucation was created. It is a multilateral project that combines expertise and education to offer people different paths to purely plant-based cookery training. It’s the only programme in the world where there is a cooperation with universities; 50 vocational schools in Austria are taking part. Our idea is to pass this successful concept on to other countries, as we see great potential and want to do more. We could imagine internationalising it.

3rd project: Veganuary. We organised the Veganuary campaign in Austria (with the help of Veganuary International) - media wise it was very successful (we had over 70 clippings) and all the major food retailers participated. (If you want to know more about the success of Veganuary in Austria, I can send you the End of Campaign Report).

Are there any chances that we can get a funding for one of our projects? Thank you so much!