Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 2027 ($100,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: January 30, 2026

Nominations are open for the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 2027. The Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order is given to those that have taken on problems with world significance and offered viewpoints that would result in a extra simply and peaceable world. Each concept helps one noble trigger: to encourage us all to work collectively for the frequent good.

The Award is offered yearly to the winner of a contest designed to stimulate the popularity, dissemination and important evaluation of excellent proposals for bettering world order.

Award

• The Grawemeyer Award in World Order is accompanied by a prize of $100,000, which is offered in full throughout the awards ceremony.

Eligibility

• Submission might tackle a variety of worldwide issues together with overseas coverage and its formation; the conduct of worldwide relations or world politics; world financial points, reminiscent of world commerce and funding; decision of regional, ethnic or racial conflicts; the proliferation of harmful applied sciences; world cooperation on environmental safety or different essential points; worldwide legislation and group; any mixture or specific features of those, or some other appropriate concept which may at the very least incrementally result in a extra simply and peaceable world order.
• Self- nominations is not going to be thought-about.

Judging Criteria

• Submissions will likely be judged based on originality, feasibility and potential affect, not by the cumulative file of the nominee.

Nomination

Entries should be submitted in 4 copies and accompanied by a nomination form, nominator’s letter, biographical sketch of nominee and settlement that the fabric will likely be positioned in college archives. Non-English entries should be translated.

All nominations for the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order ought to attain the University of Louisville by January 30, 2026, and all supporting supplies (books, articles, speeches, critiques) are due by February 27, 2026.

For extra info, go to Grawemeyer Award.