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«Make way for the gifted!»
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Galatea Quartet, winner of the 2007 chamber music competition 
Ballet dancer auditioning for a scholarship (Wir Brückenbauer magazine 1981) 
Byron Quartet , winner of the people’s prize in the 2009 chamber music competition 
Sayaka Studer, scholarship winner in the 2010 and 2011 instrumental music competitions
Since 1965, Migros has used a portion of its annual budget for social and cultural purposes to award scholarships. Today, these grants are aimed at supporting young talents as they transition from the realm of education to that of employment.
Under the slogan «Make way for the gifted!», Elsa Gasser, economic advisor to Migros, called for a revision of Swiss scholarships in 1946. A decade later, Migros managed its first own scholarships and enabled a group of «exceptionally talented» young members «of both sexes» of the cooperative to perfect their foreign language skills abroad. The twelve lucky candidates – three girls and nine young men – received 830 francs to study in a sister school and member of the Club School group, Bournemouth’s English Language School.
In 1969, the Migros Culture Percentage awarded its first scholarships to artists; while these junior scholarships were initially limited to music, they were gradually extended to the areas of ballet, drama, and singing. In 1981, the Federation of Migros Cooperative’s head of cultural promotion stated that the programme «deliberately and consciously promotes talents – artists, in other words – with exceptional abilities that show promise of a successful and fulfilling career, according to our experts».