On Saturday, October 11, 2025, during its annual conference at the Melchanthon Academy in Cologne, the Institute for Interreligious Studies (INTR°A, Schwerte) awarded this year’s Project Prize for Complementarity of Religions to two projects in the field of Christian-Buddhist dialogue, the “European Network of Buddhist Christian Studies (ENBCS)” and “Compassion in Action (MiA, Hamburg)”. The prize money totalling €5,000 will be divided equally between the two projects. On behalf of the ENBCS, the award was accepted by its chairman, Prof. Dr. Perry Schmidt-Leukel,
The award certificate reads:
“Since its founding in 1996, the European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies (ENBCS) has been dedicated to promoting mutual understanding, practical cooperation, and friendship between Christians and Buddhists. As an academic network, it has distinguished itself in two particular ways. On the one hand, it creates lively meeting places for experts in Christian-Buddhist dialogue to discuss the relationship between Christianity and Buddhism in a well-founded manner and on an equal footing. Second, the ENBCS communicates the concerns and fruits of this dialogue to the public in a unique way by organizing internationally renowned conferences for decades and documenting them in book publications of outstanding quality. The prize money will support the network’s future conferences.”