UniCredit Foundation announces the winners of the first edition of Edu-Fund Platform

Date
10 September 2025
Type
News

UniCredit Foundation has announced the winners of the first edition of the Edu-Fund Platform, a call for proposals launched in 2024 and concluded in July 2025 after three selection rounds.

Through three distinct application streams, the Foundation selected 30 innovative programmes aimed at tackling educational poverty, implemented by non-profit organizations active both locally and transnationally across the countries where the UniCredit operates. The winning projects represent outstanding initiatives that create real opportunities for learning, growth, and inclusion for children and young people in vulnerable situations.

Here is the list of winners:

Large-scale programmes

  • Education Without Backpacks   “Better at Math with Khan Academy: Scaling to 50 more schools in Bulgaria” – Bulgaria

  • Network of Education Policy Centers ARISE: Empowering Schools in Breaking Barriers and Building Equitable Learning Environments” – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia      

  • Škola Dokorán Empowering At-Risk Children through Community-Based Learning Hubs” – Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia

  • Vienna Hobby Lobby – “Scaling Hobby Lobby for Educational Skills in Europe” – Austria, Germany, Romania

Mid-scale programmes

  • ArbeiterKind.de – “Empower e Connect: Volunteer Role Models Inspire Rural School Students from Non-Academic Families to Pursue Higher Education” – Germany

  • Asociatia Techsoup  – “Teaching the Future: teaching for critical-creative-computational thinking”– Romania

  • Asociatia Visuri Indraznete – “CampioMATE - Campionatul de matematica pe echipe” –     Romania

  • Breaking Grounds – “Social Change through Sport Life Goals – Moving for the Future” – Austria

  • CIAI ETS – Centro Italiano Aiuti all’Infanzia ETS – “Dream Teen: supporting students realizing their full potential” – Italy

  • Institute for Youth Development KULT          – “EduConnect BiH - Applied Learning for Inclusive Communities” – Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Lern-fair e V. Lern-Fair: Scaling Digital 1:1 Tutoring for Educational Equity in Germany and beyond” – Germany

  • META – Supporting educational opportunities – “Potential, Support, Empowerment: Improving Educational Access and Inclusiveness for Children and Youth with Migration Background” – Czech  Rep.

  • Schola Empirica, z.s. – “Skills Builder: Supporting Development of 21st Century Skills in VET and secondary schools” – Czech  Rep.

Small-scale programmes

UniCredit Foundation has announced the winners of the first edition of the Edu-Fund Platform, a call for proposals launched in 2024 and concluded in July 2025 after three selection rounds.

Through three distinct application streams, the Foundation selected 30 innovative programmes aimed at tackling educational poverty, implemented by non-profit organizations active both locally and transnationally across the countries where the UniCredit operates. The winning projects represent outstanding initiatives that create real opportunities for learning, growth, and inclusion for children and young people in vulnerable situations.

Here is the list of winners:

Large-scale programmes

  • Education Without Backpacks   “Better at Math with Khan Academy: Scaling to 50 more schools in Bulgaria” – Bulgaria

  • Network of Education Policy Centers ARISE: Empowering Schools in Breaking Barriers and Building Equitable Learning Environments” – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia      

  • Škola Dokorán Empowering At-Risk Children through Community-Based Learning Hubs” – Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia

  • Vienna Hobby Lobby – “Scaling Hobby Lobby for Educational Skills in Europe” – Austria, Germany, Romania

Mid-scale programmes

  • ArbeiterKind.de – “Empower e Connect: Volunteer Role Models Inspire Rural School Students from Non-Academic Families to Pursue Higher Education” – Germany

  • Asociatia Techsoup  – “Teaching the Future: teaching for critical-creative-computational thinking”– Romania

  • Asociatia Visuri Indraznete – “CampioMATE - Campionatul de matematica pe echipe” –     Romania

  • Breaking Grounds – “Social Change through Sport Life Goals – Moving for the Future” – Austria

  • CIAI ETS – Centro Italiano Aiuti all’Infanzia ETS – “Dream Teen: supporting students realizing their full potential” – Italy

  • Institute for Youth Development KULT          – “EduConnect BiH - Applied Learning for Inclusive Communities” – Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Lern-fair e V. Lern-Fair: Scaling Digital 1:1 Tutoring for Educational Equity in Germany and beyond” – Germany

  • META – Supporting educational opportunities – “Potential, Support, Empowerment: Improving Educational Access and Inclusiveness for Children and Youth with Migration Background” – Czech  Rep.

  • Schola Empirica, z.s. – “Skills Builder: Supporting Development of 21st Century Skills in VET and secondary schools” – Czech  Rep.

Small-scale programmes