The Right Livelihood Award Foundation is currently seeking proposals from all around the world for the 2012 Right Livelihood Awards, also known as “Alternative Nobel Prize”. Anyone – except Right Livelihood Award Jury and staff members – can propose anyone (individuals or organizations), except themselves, close relatives or their own organizations, to be considered for a Right Livelihood Award.
The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour and support those “offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today”.
Projects in Third World Countries and grassroots activists have the same chance of being proposed as, for example, a First World scholar or entrepreneur. Through this open nomination process, the Foundation gets a sense of what people around the world perceive as the most urgent problems – and who develops ways to solve them.
Proposal Submission and Selection
In any year, there are some 70-100 proposals for the Right Livelihood Award. After careful research by the Foundation’s research team, reports on all current proposals are submitted to the international Jury. The Jury meets annually at the end of September to select the Recipients. The year’s Awards are announced at a press conference in Stockholm ten days later.
Award Ceremony and Prize
Presented annually in Stockholm at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament, the Right Livelihood Award is usually shared by four Recipients, but not all Laureates receive a cash award. Often an Honorary Award is given to a person or group whose work the Jury wishes to recognize but who is not primarily in need of monetary support. The prize money in 2011 was 150,000 €. The prize money is for ongoing successful work, never for personal use.
About the Right Livelihood Award Foundation
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation is a charity registered in Sweden and its purpose is the presentation of Right Livelihood Awards, to promote scientific research, education, public understanding and practical activities which:
- contribute to a global ecological balance
- are aimed at eliminating material and spiritual poverty
- contribute to lasting peace and justice in the world.
The Foundation shall also support and report on the projects for which awards are presented.
Last date for proposals for any current year is March 1.
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