03.08.2018
Half a million zlotys for the 50th anniversary of the company
All of Poland with Budimex
From Warsaw, through Wapno, Biecz, Myślenice, to Lublin and the Tri-City – 254 projects were submitted to the competition “Change the world. Budimex 50 years”, in which the winner wins 500 thousand. PLN. “If we could implement all the ideas, Poland would look better, happier,” dreams Tatiana Mindewicz-Puacz from Task Force Consulting, the coordinator of this project.
The main assumption of the jubilee competition is to change the space and life around you. Build, renovate, modernize. But not alone, but
with institutions working for the social good, not for profit.
What would non-governmental organisations, foundations, social activists and local government officials who responded to the idea of Budimex want to change around them? “Many of these projects surprised us. The imagination of the originators is unlimited,
And the applications are prepared professionally. There is a lot to choose from,” admits Maria Mikołajczak, a representative of the jury.
Among the quarter of a thousand applications there are, for example: bus stops with roofs with green gardens, a pavilion made of recycled plastics, an open DIY workshop, a diving platform for rehabilitation of the disabled, a mobile school for the youngest, a sailing kindergarten, a school in the forest, balloon flights between special nature centers. There are also other projects in which entire local communities and the authorities of a given area are involved, such as the modernization of historic buildings or the creation of new spaces for sports. – Everyone wants to change the space around them. Because the people who sent in their ideas know that it will best serve them and their loved ones,” says Rafał Sonik, chairman of the jury, winner of the Dakar Rally, owner of Gemini Holding.
After verifying the submitted applications, the jury selected as many as 99 projects for the next stage, including 33 in the field of education and upbringing, 18 in local development, 17 in social assistance, 10 in health and culture and art, 5 in sport and ecology, as well as 1 project in the field of science and technology.
On 15 August, the jury (Rafał Sonik, Konrad Maj – Innovation Centre of the SWPS University; Mateusz Turecki – Budimex; Cezary Łysenko – Budimex; Maria Mikołajczak – Task Force Consulting) will announce on the www.zmieniajswiatbx50.pl website a list of three winners who will continue to present their ideas. The final of the competition will take place on September 5
in Warsaw. The jury will select the winner of the main prize (half a million zlotys). The winning project, in addition to financing, will also receive expert support from Budimex (logistics, organisation, expertise). The second place is expected to receive 45 thousand. PLN. (donated for statutory purposes), III place 35 thousand. PLN. (statutory objectives) and the Internet Users’ Award of 20 thousand. PLN. (statutory objectives). The winner will have time until mid-December 2018 to implement the project.
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Program Organizer:
Patrons:
Innovation Centre of the SWPS University, Unit for Social Innovation and Research “Shipyard”, Business Zone portal
Substantive partners:
Laboratory of Social Innovation, Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia
The program is supported and supported by all participants, including:
Szymon Hołownia, Małgorzata Ostrowska-Królikowska, Katarzyna Żak, Izabella Miko, Leszek Stanek, Maja Popielarska, Tatiana Mindewicz-Puacz
If you have any questions, the following are at your disposal:
Maria Mikołajczak
Project Coordinator
+ 48 667 631 717