Island School of Social Autonomy has been nominated for the SozialMare Prize for Social Innovation

We are honoured that ISSA has been nominated for the SozialMarie Prize that is being awarded to 15 outstanding projects every year. It honours initiatives that offer novel, sustainable and exemplary solutions to current social challenges. Out of 401 projects from across Europe, ISSA is among 34 projects that have been nominated for SozialMare.

“Starting from the conviction that education is one of the biggest challenges today, and that in its transformation lies a solution to our contemporary crisis, in 2021 we established a ‘school from the future’ on the Adriatic island of Vis. It started form the reconstruction of an old stone house and revitalization of 3 hectares of land, with the aim of developing infrastructure and alternative models of education and involving the public in practises of sustainable development and social autonomy. What is particularly innovative is the innovation of the school itself in the 21st century.”

The winning projects of SozialMarie 2025 will be announced at the award ceremony on May 1, 2025, in Vienna.