Deadline: 1 March 2015
Do you have a good candidate for the Right Livelihood Award in mind? Do you know someone who is offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today? If yes, then Nominate that individual or organisation for the Right Livelihood Award 2015.
Right Livelihood Award is an award for the people and their work and struggles for a better future. The Laureates come from all walks of life: they are farmers, teachers, doctors, or simply, concerned citizens. This open nomination process works like a seismic detector of the most urgent problems of today and thus allows for timely, often even agenda-setting awards.
Being established in 1980, the award honours and supports those “offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today”. It has become widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ and there are now 158 Laureates from 65 countries.
The Award is usually shared by four Recipients and is presented annually in Stockholm at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament. The 2014 Prize money was SEK 2 million (2014) to be shared by 4 recipients.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any individual or organization from anywhere in the world can be nominated for the Right Livelihood Award 2015.
- Participant must be working in any of the field offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today.
How to Nominate?
- Proposals, written in English should be submitted both electronically as a word document (not pdf) to the foundation or as a paper copy via regular mail.
- A proposal consists of the answers to the following questions by the proposer and the candidate.
- The following information is required from the proposed candidate-
- A short history of your work/organisation including the duration of relevant activities, number of staff and volunteers.
- Biographical data on yourself/organisation’s founders and current leaders, also indicating the date of birth.
- Written material produced by or about your project/organisation.
- Information about the financial situation of your work.
- Names, addresses and contact persons of the main donors (if any) from which funding has been received in the past three years.
- Details of any financial connection between officers/staff members and the government or a political party.
- A signed commitment not to publicise the proposal on CVs, websites or in any other way.
- The proposer may consult the candidate in advance, the anwswer to the following questions-
- Full address, e-mail, phone and fax (if available) of self and proposed candidate.
- Nature and length of relationship with the candidate, mentioning professional, financial or political links, if any.
- The proposer’s expertise relevant to this proposal, mentioning his/her occupation.
- The Honorary Award is for candidates whose primary need is not cash support but who would benefit from the considerable recognition and publicity, which a Right Livelihood Award generates.
- A brief summary (no more than 200 words) of the candidate’s work.
- A statement setting out in more detail the reasons for the proposal and the candidate’s special qualifications for an Award.
- An assurance that the candidate’s work is sufficiently mature to justify a Right Livelihood Award.
- The Jury cannot make an Award in a particular area unless it has comparative knowledge of individuals/organisations engaged in similar work.
- the names and contact details of two other qualified persons from different organisations who know the candidate well.
For more information about the award, visit Nominations for Right Livelihood.
