Running a pub without a deficit in a peripheral Swiss region was a challenge even before Covid-19. The pandemic has made this situation even worse. Yet the pub is a central place: people meet, discuss, learn new things, make acquaintances and, last but not least, satisfy their physical well-being here.
Csf wants to preserve this important cement for the community and is launching the project: Stamm:Tisch.
As part of this project, Csf is awarding a CHF 90,000 grant to a gastronomic business in Switzerland, spread over 3 years.
The founders and co-developers of this first scholarship are Martin Hofer and Senn Resources AG. This scholarship is a contribution to an innovative gastronomic concept that needs financial resources to be realised at all.
In addition to financial support, the doers receive support through coaching and know-how from the Csf network, tailored to the individual needs of the respective team.
This scholarship is a contribution to an innovative gastronomic concept that needs financial resources to be realised at all.
With this project approach, Csf, together with the scholarship donors, helps an industry in an exceptional emergency situation and sets social and cultural impulses in peripheral areas of Switzerland. In doing so, it also meets a need of its association members to realise projects in Switzerland. And it does so in a constructive way: New, positive project approaches are supported, which also approach the crisis as an opportunity.
The call for proposals will run until 5 September 2021, after which a jury will assess the proposals submitted. The decision will be communicated in October 2021.
The jury is composed as follows:
- Martin Hofer: Architect, real estate expert, founding partner of "Wüest Partner AG".
- Johannes Senn: Economist, real estate expert, Managing Director "Senn Resources AG".
- Elif Oskan: Gastronomer, cook and owner of the restaurants Gül and Rosi in Zurich
- Martin Volkart: Business and project developer in the hotel and gastronomy sector, owner of "volkartundrichard ag".
- Martin Roth: President Cuisine sans frontières
Call for proposals until 5 September
Cuisine sans frontières
Cuisine sans frontières
Cuisine sans frontières (Csf) invites people to the table to resolve conflicts and promote community. Cooking and eating together means quality of life. Conversations are held, relationships are forged, problems are solved. This strengthens the foundation of every community. To this end, Csf builds gastronomic meeting places and training centres in crisis areas or social conflict situations - always in cooperation with a local partner.
The aim is always to ensure the economically independent operation of the projects in the long term. Csf is and has been active in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Georgia, Kenya, Greece, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon and Zurich.
The non-profit association was founded in Zurich in 2005 and is financed by donations, membership and foundation fees as well as the Kitchen Battle charity event.
