The 2025 Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Prize for emerging young Leaders (USD 10,000 monetary prize and Fully Funded to the Athens Democracy Forum in Athens, Greece)

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Application Deadline: 31 March 2025. 

Applications are actually open for the 2025  Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Prize. The Kofi Annan Foundation and the Democracy and Culture Foundation invite nominations for the third version of the Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Award. 

The Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Prize goals to:

• Recognise distinctive mental and/or “in action” management proven by a young activist in defending, selling or renewing democracy;
• Provide the recipient of the prize with assist, together with by a one-year mentorship with a recognised democracy skilled or senior chief;
• Inspire young individuals to commit to the development of democracy.

Requirements

Nominees have to be aged between 18 and 30 at the time of nomination. There are not any restrictions in phrases of nationality, gender, or occupation. The Selection Committee will contemplate the following when deciding the winner:

• Impact: The nominee’s actions had a demonstrated end result, for occasion, a change in coverage in a given nation, the fee of participation in elections, the variety of individuals reached by a selected marketing campaign, the variety of customers of a selected application, the variety of college students gaining a wider understanding of the significance of the democratic course of, the variety of group associations engaged in an academic marketing campaign and many others.
• Innovation: The progressive character of those actions.
• Sustainability: Whether the nominee has superior the reason for democracy and human rights for a sustained interval of one-year minimal, and whether or not her/his actions are sustainable over time and replicable in different contexts;
• Values: The values displayed by the Nominee by her/his actions.
• Benefit: The added worth the Award might convey to the nominee in phrases of worldwide notoriety and assist.

Benefits

• The Prize features a monetary prize of USD 10,000.
• The award shall be offered at the Athens Democracy Forum, and all journey and lodging bills linked to the Awardee’s participation in the Forum shall be coated by the organizers. Awardees shall be invited to take a number one function in organising a panel session on youth and democracy at the following yr’s Forum.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Prize