GCSP Prize for Transformative Futures in Peace and Security 2025 (Fully-funded to Geneva)

Deadline: March 20, 2025

Applications are open for the GCSP Prize for Transformative Futures in Peace and Security 2025. The prize goals to acknowledge revolutionary ideas with distinctive potential in addressing peace and safety challenges.

Under the management of Ambassador Thomas Greminger, Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), the Prize for Transformative Futures in Peace and Security was initiated by Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan, Director of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Department, and Ms Anne-Caroline Pissis Martel, Director of the Global Fellowship Initiative and Creative Spark. It seeks to reward groundbreaking ideas that provide distinctive promise in addressing peace and safety challenges. The inaugural version of the prize was awarded in 2023.

Prizes

• The prize for the applying coming in the primary place is a completely funded 2-month incubation programme inside the GCSP’s Creative Spark in Geneva (value CHF 15’000) and a certificates of excellence.
• The two different finalist purposes will obtain a certificates of recognition.

Eligibility

• Applications from any nation are welcome, emphasizing ideas that transcend nationwide borders in their scope or pondering.
• Eligible fields embody transformative applied sciences, pandemics, biothreats, autonomous weapons, local weather change, human rights, cybersecurity, training, or disarmament, to identify a couple of.

Selection Criteria

The panel of judges will choose the winners (first, second and third place), and the choice will probably be based mostly on the next standards:

• Dedication to sustainable international peace and safety;
• Creativity;
• Originality;
• Transformative potential;
• Sustainability;
• Incubation potential;
• Implementation potential;
• Potential impression on peace and safety;

Application

• Applications should be submitted through the web software kind in order to be thought-about for the prize, and shall embody:
  • a mission idea summary of 250 phrases most;
  • a well-developed mission idea description which shouldn’t exceed 750 phrases in size;
  • an outline of the technical technique of the mission idea submitted (if relevant);
  • an estimate of the funds required for the mission idea;
  • an evidence of how the mission idea gives a novel contribution to the sector of worldwide peace and safety;
  • an outline of the short-term and long-term impression of the mission idea in the sector of worldwide peace and safety;
  • up to 5 picture recordsdata (optionally available)
• Applications should be in English.

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For extra info, go to GCSP Prize.