European Economic
and Social Committee
Eligibility criteria
Given that civil society actors play a major role in combating poverty and alleviating the consequences of material deprivation, the specific objective of the prize is to reward initiatives in areas such as:
- social support, housing, education and health;
- in-work poverty;
- energy poverty;
- child poverty;
- homelessness;
- financial exclusion and over-indebtedness;
- cooperation with public authorities.