Inclusion Award 2024 - Nine organizations honored

Nine associations and institutions have been awarded the Saxon Inclusion Prize 2024. "The award applications show time and again what great projects people with and without disabilities are getting off the ground together," said Michael Welsch, Saxony's state representative for the inclusion of people with disabilities, according to a press release. "This encourages people to follow suit and gives them courage."

For the first time this year, three winners were honored in each of the categories "How Saxon is inclusive!", "Working and living" and "Sport". They each receive prize money of 3,000 euros. The prize was awarded in five categories every two years until 2022.

Winners from Dresden, Leipzig, Reichenbach, Görlitz and Borna

In the "How Saxon is inclusive!" category, the Dresden Adult Education Center received the award for political education, while the Dresden association ColumbaPalumbus and Leipzig-based Inclusive Gaming GmbH received awards for art and culture. Reichenbach-based DieLei gGmbH and Dresden-based F.A.I.R.E. Warenhandels eG received the award in the work category, while the Görlitz-based association Selbstbestimmtes Leben für Menschen mit Handicap received the award in the living category.

In the sports category, the award for clubs with up to 250 members went to the Leipzig table tennis club Leutzscher Füchse 1990, while the award for clubs with more than 250 members went to ATV Volkmarsdorf 90, also from Leipzig. In addition, SV "Einheit" Borna received the special prize.

Jury selected from 86 applications

The inclusion prize is said to recognize outstanding practical examples that actively and sustainably promote the idea of inclusion, convey the intentions of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and make the successful inclusive coexistence of people with and without disabilities a tangible experience. 86 associations and institutions submitted application documents this year. The selection was made by an eleven-member jury.