Central Europe Foundation, Brief Description
The Central Europe Foundation (Mitteleuropa-Stiftung) is a Swiss charitable foundation. It was founded in 1997 thanks to a bequest of the Hantos family to honor the memory of Dr. Elemér Hantos (1880-1942). The foundation seeks to further economic cooperation regionally and worldwide, notably by helping students from Central Europe and Latin America to study at selected universities in Switzerland, Central Europe, Latin America, and North America. The foundation also awards the Dr. Elemér Hantos prize to people or organizations in recognition of their outstanding achievement in promoting economic cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe. The prize perpetuates the memory of Dr. Hantos who made major contributions toward creating zones of economic cooperation in Central Europe and elsewhere and whose work the foundation seeks to research, preserve, and disseminate.
The Central Europe Foundation is recognized by the Swiss Federal Government as a tax-exempt foundation placed under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.