The winners of this year's two Routes Awards are Borka Pavićević, the cultural activist and founding Director of Belgrade's Centre for Cultural Decontamination, and Stefan Kaegi, the internationally-acclaimed Swiss theatre-maker.

They will each receive their prize of €25,000 during the Awards' Ceremony on 26 January 2010 at the Royal Flemish Theatre (Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg) in Brussels.

Launched in 2008, the annual Routes Awards is a way for the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) to honour and support artists, thinkers and cultural players whose work triggers us to look beyond the static idea of "diversity" in a way that engages interaction that takes place between people and cultures.

Read more on ECF's own website.